Application integration is as important to your ICT infrastructure as a well organised and prepared lesson plan is to the success of your students. Ramesys has built a successful track record of industry standard, supportable and extensible application integration services within schools across the UK.
Our team of consultants and integrators bring years of experience, allowing them to identify the integration possibilities for the short, medium and long-term, whilst providing advice on marketplace standards for integration in the context of the availability and readiness of each individual school / LA or Corporate IT to adopt the standards.
While the aims of application integration vary and the ‘need’ must be accessed on a case to case basis, common to many of the application integrations requested is the requirement for:
- improved teacher and learner access to systems
- sharing of data between systems
- seamless integration of system features integrated
- reduced the management burden of systems
Within the education environment, application integration is a specialised area, requiring in-depth knowledge of schools and local authorities’ inner workings. The imminent widespread adoption of Shibboleth (DfES and Becta’s strategic approach to school web content authentication and authorisation) brings the requirement for application integration more to the focus than ever before by providing a standard approach to sign-on between applications. Ramesys has been working with the new standards and protocols for a number of years and have vast experience and understanding in implementing and supporting these technologies, whether you are a school or a content provider wishing to work in the educational environment.
Integration of existing schools applications may include:
- Centrally or locally hosted email
- Internet filtering / Content caching
- Directory services (such as Microsoft Active Directory)
- School MIS systems integration
- VLE/MLE integration
- Other third party application systems
Third party application providers become part of the Ramesys team during the integration process, ensuring that the integration required is achievable, with all risks identified and managed up front. Using our team of certified programme and project managers, you can be assured that the application integration specified will be managed and delivered as agreed.
And with Ramesys solutions, your application integration delivery will happen with planning of the integration in scrupulous detail to ensure that interruptions are minimised.