1. Technical Session
Jonathan Wood

2. Agenda
SIMS Releases
Technical Roadmap
SOLUS3

3. SIMS Releases

4. SIMS 2013 Summer Release Release on Friday 23rd August
Release Note ID: 21527
Scope
Staff Performance
Fixes to
Personnel
Assessment
Exams Analysis
Interventions

5. SIMS Installable Release
For SIMS and FMS Based on Summer2 Installs SQL2012 Express Release date: End of November

6. Autumn Release Release Date: Friday 29th November Scope Document ID:
Beta Date: Friday 4th October

7. 2014 Releases Provisional Dates for 2014 Spring Release: End of March
Summer Release: End of June
Autumn Release: Early November

8. SQL 2012 Migration

9. SQL Migration An Updated SQl2012 migration tool
Available alongside Autumn release via a URL
New functionality
Discover client redirection
FMS SQL Binn folder fix

10. Question 1
What % of your schools are on SQL2012
Up to 25
Up to 50
up to 99
100

11. Question 2
When do you think that all of your schools will be on SQL2012?
Already there
End of the year
Spring 2014
Summer 2014
Autumn 2014

12. Technical Roadmap

13. Technical Roadmap Technical Roadmap New update in October. Key items
Office 2013 Support - Spring 2014
Windows – Spring 2014
Windows Server 2012 R2 – Spring 2014
Internal use of Office – Summer 2014
Support for SQL – Autumn 2014

14. Technical Roundup

15. Database Build Numbers
We will be using a new Database Numbering system
moving to 3.62.xxx
Release Name
Release Version
Database Number
Spring 2013
7.150.
Summer 2013
7.152
Summer (2) 2013
7.153
Autumn 2013
7.154
7.156
3.62.1xx

16. SOLUS3

17. SOLUS3.6.94 Released 20/9/13 Resolved issues with Auto-deploy
Support for
SQL Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
Windows 8
Server Moves
Discover Autumn on SOLUS3
Will not upgrade the Server if it is Windows XP or Server 2003

18. Key Feedback on User Interface
Contains repetitive tasks
Too complex to use
Too Silo based
Didn’t like black on blue!

19. SOLUS3.7 Focusing on Usability Improvements
Reduce skill level needed to install and maintain it
Reduce the time taken to do key actions
Online customer workshop
- contact me if you are interested
Release in March 2014

20. Navigation bar always visible
Always visible from top screen
Prompt to save changes if navigating away from page whilst making changes
Navigation bar always visible

21. Default landing tab
Multiple products

22. CLOSE SLIDE