1. Journey continues … >c<v
AS – our support for all applicants
AAA – our assessors for all services
SANTAS – our admissions software
SFTP – our catalyst programme
ITS – our technology and support
Journey continues … >c<v
South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre Information Technology Services

2. Journey from applications through applicants to clients - a bit of history
Journey continues …
Satellites
Continuous
TAFE
Skills 4 All
International
Scholarships
Bradley review,
Caps removed
Dawkins reforms,
UniSA created
Charles Darwin
Economy
booms
Some TAFE
All TAFE
Hospital-based nursing
International Year12s

3. Technology - from batch through online, client-server to the web
DELL (LINUX)
MS SQL (JAVA)
ABW WEB
99% central
assessment
SUN (SOLARIS)
INGRES (openROAD > JAVA)
ONLINE CLIENT SERVER
20% central
assessment
80% central
assessment
WANG COBOL
DISK – BATCH – FIRST TERMINAL & NETWORK
100% central
assessment ?
OASys
CDC600 FORTRAN
TAPE - BATCH
ARTS
No central
assessment
electronic doco
archives

4. Admissions lifecycle processes which we do

5. 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

6. 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

7. Automated build and deployment (jenkins): done
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

8. Post-SFTP life – boring … heh?
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)

9. Questions?