Government ICT Project Goes Live Early and On Budget
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Government ICT Project Goes Live Early and On Budget
HODDESDON, London, UK, - January 26, 2006 (Cyberscience plc)
The Public Guardianship Office (PGO) based in North London, a
part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) in
England and Wales, manages the assets and income of over 25,000
citizens who are unable through mental or other incapacity to
manage their own affairs.
The PGO recently conducted an upgrade of their computer systems
with Liberata, the DCA's IT PFI partner. As part of this
programme, Cyberscience were asked in late 2004 to provide the
smoothest upgrade path for the Case Records (CASREC) system
running on soon to be obsolete Data General hardware first
installed in 1987 with applications developed in-house, to a
modern system running on Dell servers.
The original CASREC system was written by DCA staff, using CQCS
from Cyberscience and had grown into a complex mission critical
system supporting nearly 350 civil servants handling a very
large case load. The new system had to be implemented without
any interruption and minimum change to the working practices
followed by the staff at the PGO.
Cyberscience CQCS has been continuously developed over the last
25 years to be platform and database independent, and to offer
superior speed of development with exceptional performance and
scalability. CQCS consists of two closely related applications -
Cyberscreen the rapid application development language and
Cyberquery the most advanced Reporting and Business Intelligence
solution for any application database.
Rather than develop a completely new system from scratch with
all the attendant delays and problems associated with large
projects, the PGO took advantage of the benefits of the
application portability that is a fundamental part of the
Cyberscience CQCS product. The implementation was achieved ahead
of time, on budget and included as a bonus, the automation of
several back office processes to provide a turnkey solution.
As well as providing the underlying CQCS software, Cyberscience
provided consultancy, certain project management elements and
the configuration and provision of appropriate Dell hardware
including a hot standby server and replication facility.
The online response time has exceeded all of the PGO's
expectations with 350 concurrent users against the previous
limit of 50. Overnight batch processing and reporting which
previously took up to 4 hours on the old system is now completed
in less than 5 minutes! This includes batch updates to the
database, the extraction of a large amount of data to interface
with other systems and the production of all the CASREC reports.
By leveraging their existing investment in Cyberscience
technology, the PGO is able to provide a superior solution with
an enhanced GUI user interface, and offer a better service to
its users and ultimately its clients.
To learn more call +44 (0) 1992 441111 or e-mail
info@cyberscience.com
About the author:
About Cyberscience
Cyberscience Corporation is a privately held software developer
focused on delivering reporting, business intelligence,
dashboard and rapid application development solutions to over
4,000 customers worldwide. Since 1977, our solutions have
addressed the needs of all information users, from business
analysts to senior executives; from power users to application
developers.
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