UK school management information system (MIS) provider Bromcom has had a bad start to the academic year after its Azure-based service left staff struggling to track student attendance, let alone access contact details for parents and guardians.

Although Bromcom's status page reports issues with the company's services, it still claims "99 percent uptime" over the last 90 days. However, considering that a large chunk of that was vacation time for UK schools, it's really only the last week or so that will be of the most concern.

During that time, the wheels really seemed to come off. Even the status page says: "Some Resources are Severe Degradation" [sic].

Away from the status page, Bromcom has kept users updated on its troubles. On August 31, Bromcom increased resources on its cloud syste

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