Software Services

In This Section 
  1. Technology Focus
  2. Education

Vidatum Technologies provides expert software design and development services on a variety of platforms and artchitectures Our staff have an average of 10 years of experience designing and delivering solutions to complex business problems.

We provide services covering the full software development lifecycle, from analysis and design to go-live and support. We understand the complexities of software development and adapt our apporach to suit our clients' environments and ensure that we deliver our projects on time and on budget.

Technology Focus

We provide expert development in the following technologies and platforms:

  • Oracle PL/SQL and Web Applications
  • Oracle Forms, Reports, and Discoverer
  • Java, JSP, JSF
  • Oracle ADF Framework
  • VB, .NET, and MS-SQL
  • PHP, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

We provide services and solutions to clients within the Education Sector and clients from a cross section within the Private and Public sector.

Education

Vidatum Technologies provides solutions and technology management to educational institutions. We work closely with universities and colleges to help them enhance their performance through continuously improving their student services and fostering superior educational environments. We are the leading provider of specialist educational software services and technology consultants.

We have extensive experience in providing Oracle and Sungard Banner based solutions to clients in the educational sector. In addition, we have a very strong track record in educational software implementation and development, including standalone systems, enhancements, and add-ons to existing systems.

Our areas of expertise in Education are:

Enrolment and Registration:

We provide the tools to fully manage the registration and enrolment process so that students can proactively manage their enrolment process, and staff can closely monitor and control the enrolment environment dynamically to reflect the institutions policies and requirements. We also develop enhancements and add-ons to existing student information systems – and our web applications range from simple HTML applications to sophisticated AJAX-powered systems that offer improved usability and user experience.

Curriculum Building and Publishing:

We provide tools and frameworks to develop curriculum requirements and course contents, and dynamically model course/programme structures. Our modelling frameworks support intricate approval cycles for content and structure compositions, as well as periodic upload/download into the back-end student information system including sophisticated synchronisation techniques to ensure up to date data is replicated in either or both directions. Our modelling and publishing frameworks allow for the data to be published in many diverse formats including HTML, PDF, and RTF/MS Word.

Grading and Assessment:

One of the key areas which are deceptively simple is the implementation of efficient and user friendly bulk grading system. We are experienced in designing applications specifically for high-volume data entry purposes such as entering and updating grades.

Self Service Applications:

A key emerging trend in 3rd level education is to provide students and academics with rich, self service applications that allow them to do their administrative tasks more efficiently. One of the main obstacles to this is the learning curve often associated with these applications, which often results in the need for large scale training and significantly adds to the cost of rolling out such applications. At Vidatum, we prioritise the user experience and design our applications to be as intuitive as possible. By choosing the right technology and designing our applications to be as intuitive as possible, we have successfully rolled out applications to large numbers of users.

Our partners are leaders in the Educational sector and include University College Dublin and the Department of Education and Science in Ireland.