ISSN: 2277-9655 [Sayed* et al., 5(12): December, 2016] Impact Factor: 4.116 IC™ Value: 3.00 CODEN: IJESS7 http: // www.ijesrt.com © International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology [941] IJESRT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY A PROPOSED INTEROPERABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE SYSTEMS A. Sayed*, A. Bahaa, L. Elfangary * Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Helwan University, Egypt DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.222236 ABSTRACT Recently, Information technology (IT) is used to adapt for exchanging electronic data among different educational systems.Eductional data are coming from various types of software which generate their own data types have been widely used. Data exchange between different educational systems have to be done to improve interoperability between them. It improved ability for education information system to exchange information about students who move from one location or institution. This paper will propose data exchange platform for educational information system based on RESTFUL web service. Purposed data exchange platform for educational system is designed by using a cloud-based service platform. INTRODUCTION For the last years, Information technology (IT) is used to adapt for exchanging electronic data among different educational systems. IT facilitates exchanging data among different educational systems to make it easy, convenience and safety. Data exchange between different educational systems have to be done to improve interoperability between them. Due to the heterogeneity of platforms (i.e, operating system), different programming languages (i.e., Java, and Dot.Net) and different database management systems (DBMS) (i.e., SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle) in each educational information systems makes a tough and time consumed way for exchanging data among different educational. Because of heterogeneous data on each educational information systems, the concept of centralized data exchange system may be used in the communication between different type and structure. It improved ability for education information system to exchange information about students who move from one location or institution to another and help Department of Education to access data and advanced reporting evaluate the effectiveness of the educational system. United States Software and Information Industry Association has proposed School Interoperability Framework (SIF) [1] in North America.And in China, the government also presents Education Management Information System Interoperability Framework (EMIF) [2]. However that Solution have some problem in interoperability communication. THEORETICAL BASIS Cloud computing Cloud computing is a collection of Information technology services that are provided to a customer over a network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements [3]. Cloud computing purpose internet-based technology which is stored in servers and provided as a service and on-demand to the clients. It sharing architecture of the IT trends, in which a third party provides highly scalable, reliable on demand software, hardware, and infrastructure services with agile management capabilities. The main characteristics of cloud computing is managed metering, High scalability, agility, high availability and reliability, cost savings, multi- sharing, on-demand self-service, shared infrastructure, maintenance , scalability and resource pooling. There are different types of cloud computing like Public clouds, Private clouds, Hybrid clouds and Community cloud. Three types are offered by cloud computing are Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).