School Portal

Summary: 

Our customer is looking for a cloud based portal for schools packed with enhanced features including collaboration, community, calendar, news and many others. It is flexible and scalable letting you manage features and permissions and can be integrated with your existing systems to suit your current and future needs.

About client: 

A client has been delivering pioneering website and portal solutions to schools for over two decades. With emerging digital technologies and continuous changes to implement new systems at schools has been a challenge that most of the schools faces today. With this in mind, they pride themselves on delivering an innovative portal solution that can integrate with any existing systems, providing collaboration for the school community users.

Problem Statement: 

Our customer wanted a cloud based portal for schools packed with enhanced features including collaboration, community, calendar, news and many others. It is flexible and scalable letting you manage features and permissions and can be integrated with your existing systems to suit customer current and future needs.

Our customer wanted to create a portal to deliver a simple, reliable and one-stop solution for school management system. Using 3 different option the portal was provided to the end user.

1. Cloud Model: A white label solution that can be setup within minutes and hosted with AWS providing 256-bit AES encryption for your data.

2. Hybrid Model: We understand the complexity of school systems with data spread across multiple systems. The hybrid model allows you to use the cloud model and display relevant information from your in-house systems on to the portal through integration.

3. Bespoke Model: A fully customised portal hosted within your infrastructure and integrated with your systems. It provides enhanced flexibility like having your own design and features based on your specific requirements.

Benefits Delivered: 

• On-time bug-free delivery of portal as per the project execution plan.

• Improved customer relationship with an online 24*7 support system.

• Developing new market trends into education domain with the portal is the first of its kind.

Challenges and Limitations: 

• Theming the whole portal based on the color scheme selected by the admin dynamically.

• Integration of OpenOffice with Liferay.

• Mobile platform support.

Aspire Solution: 

• Involvement in this project for enhancement of existing features.

• Understanding the system requirements.

• Liferay Portal Installation and Configuration.

• Liferay Theming for overall reskinning of the portal with new look and feel.

• Integration of OpenOffice for a preview of the documents present into the portal.

• Development and releases using the agile model of development.

• Release  Management of the product to make sure all the release components are in place during release.

Technologies Used: 

Liferay 6.2 GA3 (CE), Java, Liferay MVC, Liferay Service Builder, Liferay DDL, Liferay Calendar, MySql, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, SVN, SSO