ALNAT
Published on Aug 19, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
History
- Application was created 2008-2010 - went live in march 2010
- TEC host the application for NZCER
- NZCER are the business owners
- About 450 organisations signed up of which 320-330 are active users
- There are probably a couple of thousand Org Admin and Educators and across all assessment areas NZCER get over 200K assessments each year
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Fronde Partnership
- Fronde designed and developed the application
- Fronde have been involved for the more than 6 years enhancing, supporting and maintaining the applications
- Fronde has a dedicated and experienced team with extensive technical knowledge on ALNAT
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Current Application Landscape
- The application is used by 320-330 organisation
- Approx couple of thousand Org Admin and Educators users
- Owned and managed by NZCER
- Currently funded by TEC
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Current Application Landscape
- The application is used by 320-330 organisation
- Used by approximately 2000 Org Admin and Educators (users)
- Owned and managed by NZCER
- Currently funded by TEC
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Benefits to Organisations
- Well used as a diagnostic tool
- Allows for quick identification and ease of tracking assessments
- Direct learners at Step 2 and below to learning support
- Inform placement of learners for peer support/group work
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Current Technology
- .Net C# with .Net framework 3.5
- SQL Server 2014
- Web ASP pages
- Entity Framework 4
Active Server Pages (ASP), later known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic, is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. ASP.
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Future Technology
- .Net C# with framework 3.5
- Angular JS and HTML 5
- Latest Entity framework
- SQL Server 2016
- Refreshed design and navigation
- New functionality
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New Features
- AWS hosted application
- Improved item creation and maintenance module
- Improved performance
- Integration with other authentication providers (Ex Google)
- Dashboards for organisations
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Why upgrade ?
- Technology stack is out of date
- Cost of support will increase over time
- Cost of changes and enhancements are high
- Ability to change the application for modern devices is very limited
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Why Upgrade ?
- Developer skill set to maintain old code will be harder to find
- Ablity to add new functionality can be complex
- Future proof application and infrastrture for the next 10 years
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Why Upgrade ?
- Developer skill set to maintain old code will be harder to find
- Ablity to add new functionality can be complex
- Future proof application and infrastrture for the next 10 years
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