Sims presentation
- 1. MIS: Back to the FutureGraham Cooper, Head of MarketingPhillip Hamlyn, Associate Technical Director
- 2. Smart PhonesThe CloudMIS and Software TechnologiesThe Future of MIS
- 3. Smart Phones
- 4. Smart PhonesSmart Phones are becoming the normThey could overload mobile networksThe best applications are tailored to the phoneSeparate platforms make development expensiveApple - iPhoneMicrosoft – Windows Phone 7BlackberryGoogle - Android
- 5. Smart PhonesGreat for doing single tasksThey are extraordinarily flexiblelocal storageplay mediavoting padssophisticated scientific instruments1000’s of applications (‘apps’) extend this furtherThey could be used in the classroom by pupils and teachers .....
- 6. Smart PhonesSmart phone interfaces are impacting PC designsTouch interfaces that understand gesturesDesigner led softwareNo manuals (or training) requirediPad
- 8. “Push” Reporting – SIMS Homepage
- 9. The Cloud
- 10. The CloudWhat benefits could the Cloud bring?Powerful services can be delivered via the Cloudvoice to texttranslation directions avoiding trafficdata storage and processingThe Cloud isn’t necessarily safe – as Buzz users recently discovered
- 11. Cloud computingWhat happens to your data if the company goes bust or loses interest?How do you know that your data is safe?How do you know that you are complying with data protection law?How do you get to your data when the Internet is down?How do you move your data to another supplier?
- 12. The G-CloudThe previous Government has committed public bodies to using cloud services: G-CloudAll public bodies will be able to host applications on the central computers
- 13. Open source or free software is to be encouraged
- 14. There is an assumption that software is a commodity
- 15. Typically this route does not offer a rich interfaceThe CloudTypically cloud applications lack richness
- 17. Application Technology FutureBasic business computing and communication technology has advanced markedly over the past 10 years but …This advance is asymmetricThe most visible advances are not the most important for the future of information and applicationsWhat are the trends and where are they leading business applications ?
- 19. Advances in Application Technology - ClientClient technologies are different now but have clear antecedentsActiveX (2000) == Silverlight (2010)Browser plug in providing desktop experience for browser application usersPsion 5 (1997) == iPod Touch (2007) Touch screen enabled general purpose PDA, media playerDHTML (1997) == HTML AJAX (2006)Responsive zero client browser client scripting technology User friendliness and consumer desire have increased linearly, but are not “game changers”
- 20. Main Drivers of Client Technology ImprovementsGlobalisation of manufactureBetter devices are cheaper to manufactureGlobal Positioning Satellite dataLocation based information gives an extra class of featuresMobile telephone networks & Wi-Fi networksAllows many devices to be ‘always connected’Operating systems and application features have not driven client-side technology. We pretty much do the same with our software as we did in 2000.
- 21. Advances in Application Technology - ServerServer technologies now in existence bear little relationship to those available in 2000CGI, Perl, ASP architectures, vertically integrated stacks are legacy Managed (.net, J2EE) architectures and hardware virtualisation are the norm.Further massive steps in virtualisation and server power are appearing which further challenge preconceived partitions between “client” and “server”
- 22. Main Drivers of Server Technology ImprovementsMassive industrialisation of server farmsIndustrialisation has historically driven huge reductions in costVery clever virtualisation software and management systems give redundancy, performance and scalabilityUbiquitous TCPIP global communicationsHigh speed broadbandUse of TCPIP as the defining standard for inter systems communication.
- 23. Grasping the AdvantageNew line-of-business applications need to take advantage of the non-linear increase in server side capacityAnything that isn’t directly dealing with immediate user interaction should reside in the cloudRich Internet Application platforms give immediacy and richness that old browser based technologies cannotThis doesn’t mean the application cannot be locally hosted (or regionally hosted). The whole concept of ‘the cloud’ means the customer gets to choose, not that they lose the choice.
- 24. Relevance to Schools MISSoftware location will be a customer choice, not a technology limitation – local, regional or national hosting are all optionsRIA platforms free the user and designer from making the “browser or thick client” decision. No client installs and no upgrade costs, no hardware refreshes and no HTML incompatibilitiesMulti-tenanting of schools in a single database will be common for schools seeking integration and resource sharing, without sacrificing security or performance
- 25. Assertions about the FutureAssertion - all user-facing devices will support common RIA platforms.Perhaps not today’s iPhone, but tomorrows willAssertion – industrial server farms will just get bigger, cheaper, and greenerHosting a database locally will be seen as idiosyncratic and a avoidable security risk.Assertion – Application suites will extend support for plug-ins, but on their own termsMost big applications support plugins but there will not be a ubiquitous standard for plugin support – the technology exists (and always has done) but other than generics like spellcheckers the concept has got no further
- 26. Possible shape of new Schools MISClient entirely based on RIA platform, run on-demand or downloaded for offline use. Server components hosted entirely off-site in a server farm of the users choice.Many traditionally interactive processes run using asynchronous batches.Co-hosting of many schools in a single federated database, sharing data limited only by security considerations rather than technologyExpansion of user types to home carers, nurseries peripatetic teachers and other relevant, authorised users.
- 27. The Future of MISToday the MIS is just as important in the classroom as the officeVLEs and MIS are competing for the teacher’s attentionVLEs do not seem to have delivered valueIs the future separate systems or a fully integrated solution delivered over the web?
- 28. Future of MISWhat ever future solutions we design:the needs of educationalists are paramount we cannot go back to data “mine shafts”we need to retain strong links to Office (or whatever the future brings) to improve ease of usethe total cost of ownership must be as low as possiblea rich interface is essential for power workers
- 29. Could you be a SIMS Partnership School?Over 50 SIMS Partnership schools:Measurable improvement in standardsImproved assessment resultsReduced absence and truancyFewer behaviour issuesImprovements in Ofsted gradesSchool Management EfficiencySave time and generate cashable savingsTime saved on first day contactSave time looking for documentsEnhanced Parental EngagementParents arriving for parent consultation informed by data onlineParents on your side