Calopus Solutions for Higher Education

The Problem

IT in business costs money - fact; however the financial investment made in IT systems and services is not always proportional to the tangible value returned. Organizations are increasingly turning to application and platform consolidation to rationalise their IT frameworks, reduce costs, and simplify process integration.

This process presents new and unique challenges throughout business hierarchy from IT strategists and departmental managers through to ground level technicians required to implement these changes.

Further, where larger organisations are concerned, the business risks and implementation difficulty increase exponentially and are potentially catastrophic. This is a particularly daunting prospect for those responsible.

The Challenges

The key challenges to consolidatory integration might include:

• Handling data from legacy systems which requiring costly specialised technicians
  
• Importing/translating data from customised/bespoke systems possibly creating/identifying discrepancies in data
  
• Poor quality data with random redundancy and possibly inconsistency
  
• Poor quality data between systems due to differences in implementing technologies and/or data structures used

The Solution

The dilligent strategist would turn to a tried and tested integration solution with proven success in integration of large scale applications, ideally providing additional benefits of implementation such as data warehousing along with many additional features.

Calopus for Higher Education has been implemented by several leading UK based Higher Education institutions and provides the ultimate solution to systems integration with significant advantages over both hand- built interfaces, and competing technologies. Calopus is equipped to communicate swiftly and efficiently with numerous and disparate technologies, both legacy and current with the ease and performance of oracle technology.

Calopus for Higher Education is an Application Development Framework written almost completely using PL/SQL that allows disparate databases and systems to be synchronised without altering their structure or application logic. Information transfer can be combined concurrently across many systems. New business processes and forms applications can be rapidly and easily configured.

Whether you require information to be transferred using SQL, LDAP, SMTP, COM, XML, Web Services or flat-files, Calopus HE can help to provide a complete and common integration environment.

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Calopus for Higher Education has a rich set of inbuilt core features which combine to provide an integrated, common design and runtime environment. Calopus HE applications gain benefit from a standard and secure infrastructure where development effort, costs and timescales are minimised.

Features include:

Calopus - What it isn't

Calopus HE is not a “Black Box” solution. It will significantly reduce target system administration costs showing typical savings of 50% over conventional ‘hand-built’ interfaces. It achieves this by: