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Getting More from Existing Investments

Making the most of advances in technology doesn't always have to mean moving to new suppliers and new types of provision. A lot of recent technical developments offer opportunities to get a lot more out of systems and data that already exist. The following case studies were funded by the JISC Flexible Service Delivery programme and helped to shape guidance on getting the most from existing investments which is available as part of the 'Improving Organisational Efficiency' infoKit.

 

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Lead institution

Description 

Assessing the adoption of EA as a change agent Coventry University To demonstrate how EA techniques, when applied to a large scale Smartcard/access control project, can help to overcome the cultural barriers and maximise the business benefits.
Cumulus Roehampton University To demonstrate how a large ERP system, Unit4’s Curriculum Management product, can be disaggregated to allow modular functionality from that system to be offered and supported within the 'cloud'.
Enabling Integrated Learning Environments (EILE) University of Kent To integrate remote systems with their learning environment by creating a configurable Moodle web service block, based on the IMS Learning Tools Introp (LTI) framework, that allows Moodle to consume data from remote resources and display it alongside the learning context. 
Exploiting Web Services (EWES) Roehampton University To put in place a web services approach to system integration, opening up the way to interoperability and services reuse in a loosely coupled software environment.
Graduate Recruitment Intelligence (GRI)  University of Gloucestershire To improve the graduate employability of students and recent graduates by combining academic records and other achievements with other employability characteristics, preference and timing information, contributing to the HEAR XML specification.
Identity Management in FE  Blackpool and the Flyde College To adopt a business-led and service-oriented approach to the integration of their finance and customer relationship management functionality. 
Integrated Programme and Module System (iPaMS)  University of Exeter To develop an integrated management system for programme specifications and module descriptors to support the production of the HEAR.
Shared Aggregation of Labour Market Information (SALAMI) University of Nottingham To deliver a streamlined and shared service LMI solution in the cloud ('IT as a Service') for learners, employees and institutions.
SOAP Opera 2 Leeds Metropolitan University To produce comprehensive 'As Is' and 'To Be' service-oriented models of current academic facing systems, understanding the interplay between people, processes and technology. 
STEP-C De Montfort University To demonstrate the concept of implementing two different ESB solutions, one at DMU and one at SSU, and rapidly connecting applications—via web services and APIs where the interfaces existed, and directly to the underlying database tables where they did not—to these middleware or 'service layer' platforms.
System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment (Sir Louie)
Oxford University To deliver rapid integration between Oxford’s VLE and Library systems to provide an enhanced Reading List, offering improved experiences for both students and lecturers.
Total Recal
University of Lincoln  To develop API plugins for a number of existing university systems that expose ‘space-time data’ and time in an open standardised format, which can then be aggregated and integrated into a new single web-based 'student-centered calendaring service'.