The Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services (OCM BOCES) serves as a vital operational backbone for 24 component school districts and regional educational partners across Central New York. By aggregating regional purchasing demands through cooperative contracts, OCM BOCES empowers K-12 institutions to optimize their technical capabilities. This framework allows school IT directors and business officers to significantly streamline the procurement lifecycle, reduce administrative overhead, and unlock maximum volume-based pricing—all while fully satisfying strict New York State municipal and educational compliance laws.

Under our active OCM BOCES framework, rusd solutions provides direct access to a comprehensive catalog of industry-leading, state-approved software products engineered to secure and manage your district’s digital school infrastructure:

• Arctera Platforms: Advanced data resilience, featuring virtualized environment backups, automated desktop deployment, endpoint security, and secure email archiving.

• Ivanti: Infrastructure optimization tools, including LANDesk data management and secure enterprise virtualization modules for campus-wide networks.

• ManageEngine: Performance monitoring and administrative tracking tools, including ADAudit data compliance, NovaStor backup, and core management utilities.

• PDQ: Agile deployment and device configuration suites, delivering PDQ Connect, Deploy, Inventory, Detect, SimpleMDM, and SmartDeploy system imaging.

• Progress: Secure data exchange and threat mitigation platforms, featuring MOVEit file transfer, WhatsUp Gold network monitoring, WS_FTP, and Proofpoint Email Security.

• TechSmith: Essential digital learning tools, providing high-performance screen capture and video recording utilities tailored for educators and staff.

• Traversa (by Tyler Technologies): Specialized K-12 operations software, offering high-efficiency student transportation planning, routing, and fleet analytics.

• Veritas (a Cohesity company): Industry-standard data protection, supplying high-availability backup and rapid restoration frameworks engineered for virtualized educational environments.