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Technical & consultancy services
In addition to the Quartz system, we offer a range of
technical and consultancy services for awarding organisations
and their partners. Technical work can be in conjunction with
the Quartz system, for example integration between Quartz and
other local systems, or independently such as new bespoke
developments or advice on IT matters. Many of the
consultancy and technical services described on this web site
are relevant to the education sector; specific examples of our
work for awarding organisations are given below.
- For the National Open College Network and
its constituent OCNs we developed an Information and IT
Strategy and were subsequently commissioned to develop an
operational system "OPUS" which we implemented across the 28
constituent OCNs.
- For a consortium of four awarding bodies
we developed an on-line unit bank providing secure web-based
access to units for the organisations and providing them
with a key tool in their development and management of
qualifications.
- For North Wales OCN we carried out a
strategic review of partial achievement tracking.
- Implementation services related to the
OPUS system and Quartz (but applicable to other situations)
have been provided to many clients. These include:
- Project Management
- Business process mapping and review
- Data cleansing and data migration
- Change management planning
- User and technical training
- Advice on technical infrastructure & assessment of
technical options
- We have provided wider IT support for some
of the awarding organisations using OPUS and the Quartz
system. This has included helping with resource
planning and recruitment for technical staff, establishing
local IT infrastructure, managing and rationalising 3rd
party technical services and support arrangements to
simplify and enable cost savings, providing support and
development for websites and electronic communications.
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