1. CERN Training Application 2 Phase one
October 25th 2005
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2. Background CTA has been developed in 1997 … and it shows it!
Uses an Oracle technology not supported anymore (Oracle Designer)
Very hard to customize & improve
The interface is not very user friendly for our 2005 standards
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3. Goals Improve interface Add new functionalities
s, Web Site, Reporting, External Training, …
Move back to supported technologies
Clean up unused functionalities
Offers, Suppliers, …
Streamline procedures
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4. Phases Phase One Move CTA2 in production Phase Two
Recreate & Improve existing CTA functionalities
Move CTA2 in production
Import latest data from CTA
Phase Two
Add new features and create new tools
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5. Work Done Recreated all used CTA functionalities Added new features
Supported Oracle HTMLDB platform
Identified unused functionalities
Improved management procedures
Added new features s
Resources Management
Web Site (?)
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6. Process 6 months Imported “live” data twice Focus on the Users:
16 meetings with users
12 CTA2 test versions deployed
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7. Production To put CTA2 into production we need: Import “live” CTA data
Switch on s & financial transactions
Coordinate with other projects (EDH, HRT, …) to let them point to CTA2
From then on the old CTA won’t be usable anymore.
? Next Monday October 31th ?
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8. Phase Two Many things remain to be discussed, decided and done
Web Site
Reporting
External Training
Camilla will leave December 16th!
AIS won’t be able to provide the same level of support afterwards.
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9. Resources
Project Page:
Minutes
Progress page
CTA2: (check progress page!)
Docs:
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10. Questions? ?
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