AS – our support for all applicants
Journey continues … >c<v
AAA – our assessors for all services
SANTAS – our admissions software
SFTP – our catalyst programme
ITS – our technology and support
South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre
Information Technology Services
Journey from applications through applicants to clients - a bit of history
Satellites
Journey continues …
Continuous
TAFE
Skills 4 All
International
Scholarships
Bradley review,
Caps removed
Dawkins reforms,
UniSA created
Some TAFE
Hospital-based
nursing
Economy
booms
International
Year12s
Charles
Darwin
All TAFE
Technology - from batch through online, client-server to the web
DELL (LINUX)
MS SQL (JAVA)
99% central
assessment
20% central
assessment
80% central
assessment
WANG COBOL
DISK – BATCH – FIRST TERMINAL &
NETWORK
CDC600
FORTRAN
TAPE - BATCH
No central
assessment
ABW
SUN (SOLARIS)
INGRES (openROAD > JAVA)
ONLINE CLIENT SERVER
OASys
ARTS
archives
WEB
electronic doco
100% central
assessment ?
Admissions lifecycle processes which we do
2013, SFTP, SANTAS Fast-Track Project starts.
Consolidate multiple systems into just one, SANTAS
- Build a foundation for the future
- Re-architect where needed
- Enable SATAC to keep up with the pace of change
- Programme of seven isolated projects
- Three years duration
- 30 Staff, consultants and specialists
- AUD $5Million budget with 400 stakeholders
Where to Next
SFTP
and
SANTAS:
• Configuration governance: done
• Rollouts to all SATACs Services – in progress:
• foundation, postgraduate, tafe, satellites,
paralleling, UAT, heightened support : done
• undergraduate: August
• internationals : October
• Retire legacy systems – almost done
• Continue to grow the systems capabilities
• Backlog of about 50 different projects
Where to Next ITS ?
• Automated build and deployment (jenkins): done
• Automated testing (JUnit, Sikuli, Selenium, Zephyr
and Loadstorm): done
• Functional Servicedesk on Jira: done
• Prepare infrastructure for the cloud: in progress
• loads and storage virtualization continues – 87
• network virtualisation happening now
• retire legacy systems – almost done, Solaris to go
Where to Next ITS ?
• Post-SFTP life – boring … heh?
• Support smaller group of developers and BAs
• Cannot wait to retire dragon family
• Cannot wait to stop shuffling the data
• Santaswish backlog of about 50 different projects
and 500 improvements
• We are living in exciting times (© Malcom Turnbull)
Questions?