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Services Offered: Application Modernization, Rapid application development

Industry: Education / University

Overview

The Department of Public Health at a prestigious public research university, renowned for its enrollment numbers and academic excellence, caters to over 54,000 students and 5,000 staff members. This distinguished university offers more than 250 degree programs in over 100 fields of study through its 10 academic schools and colleges. As an R1 Doctoral University with a strong focus on research, it is committed to serving the community with impactful programs.

The Challenge

One such program developed by the Department of Public Health aims to provide support to children from low-income, ‘at-risk’ families by ensuring they grow up in a nurturing, safe, and healthy home environment. Over time, the evidence-based behavioral parenting program has expanded its reach, collaborating with various systems and agencies to cater to caregivers with diverse needs. These systems include public health departments at county and state levels, child welfare systems, early intervention programs, and criminal justice systems.

However, the program faces significant challenges due to its legacy system, which was developed more than three decades ago. The outdated technology is no longer effective in meeting the complex demands of its user base, resulting in high maintenance costs, vendor dependence, and a lack of functional flexibility. Attempts to modernize the system in the past have failed, leading to a decline in the program’s reputation and credibility.

enhanced responsiveness

The Solution

After an extensive evaluation of potential solutions, the university decided to partner with Amzur, a Low-Code application development services provider. The cloud-native and multi-experience development capabilities promised a faster ‘time-to-market.’ Combining powerful workflow automation and data management features, the solution aimed to offer enhanced responsiveness and flexibility for program participants.

The key objectives of the legacy transformation exercise were as follows:

Shift from a code-heavy to a configuration-based approach to reduce upfront capital investments.

Decrease technology and vendor dependence by focusing on value delivery and optimizing operational expenditure.

Implement Straight-Through-Processing (STP) for improved efficiency across the entire value chain.

Results / Benefits

The transformation project, encompassing over 50 pending change requests, was successfully completed within just four months. The average time to incorporate change requests from program participants significantly dropped from five months to four days. Additionally, the initial capital expenditure costs were reduced by 70%, and ongoing maintenance costs decreased by 30%.

Moreover, the adoption of Amzur’s low-code solution resulted in a substantial reduction of management oversight and quality checks, saving over 50 hours per week. The improved user satisfaction levels led to a wider adoption of the program by various agencies, states, and countries.

Conclusion

By adopting Amzur’s Low-Code services, the university’s Department of Public Health achieved its underlying goal of not only scaling its operations with quality and efficiency but also streamlining and automating multiple inefficient processes. The program now stands in a better position to cater to a broader audience and achieve both scale economies and scope economies, empowering its mission to make a significant impact on the lives of families in need.

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Education / University Archives » Amzur Technologies

Services Offered: Full-stack application development, AWS cloud and QA testing

Industry: Education

Introduction

The manual school accreditation process is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Any mishandling of data could eventually lead to inefficiencies and data loss. To address the mounting challenges of data management and the real-time accreditation process, Amzur Technologies developed an AWS Cloud-based full-stack application for FCIS (Florida Council of Independent Schools) to make the process easy and smooth. We leveraged the power of the “test early and test often” strategy to ensure the application is bug-free and streamlined the entire accreditation process of 150+ schools with a few simple clicks – resulting in 30% of time spent on data management.

Customer

In the education industry, admissions & enrollment, data management, and accreditation processes are crucial. FCIS is the premier accrediting body for independent schools throughout Florida and wanted to develop a cloud-based solution that can automate the accreditation process while considerably reducing the paper and manual work. FCIS also represents the interests of independent schools in matters of legislation and regulation.

For this, they approached Amzur to build their entire process and host infrastructure on AWS Cloud to keep track of committee visits and make data available 24×7.

Challenges

Relying on manual processes like visiting schools and verifying their records of previous years for evaluation and accreditation is time-consuming and turns out to be inefficient. Transforming traditional school management systems with high technology-enabled automation tools to support the administrative and accreditation process remains a challenge for FCIS.

FCIS found extensive paperwork, record verification, school visits, and manual accreditation processes are the major hurdles in the current technology-driven education system. They struggled with the following:

Generating various committee reports using standards on every school visit

Keeping track of all the critical data for more than 100+ schools

Bringing data into real-time accessibility

Hence, the client was looking for an integrated cloud-enabled solution to bring critical data from all its schools into a single platform and manage activities.

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Solution and Strategy

To scale and streamline operations, Amzur’s expert team collaborated with the FCIS team and suggested building a full-stack application using Ruby on Rails, MYSQL, and AWS, which in turn, takes care of independent school registration, its evaluation, and the accreditation process by reducing manual intervention.

The solutions comprise of –

An admin panel where once a school is added between the school head and FCIS, all reports and visitings get tracked. The admin panel was developed using Ruby on Rails.

The Schools and data are maintained and tracked through their own MySQL database.

Reports were customized as per designs shared by the client. It also has an inbuilt SURVEYS management system.

The entire infrastructure was hosted on AWS EC2.

High availability and Load balancing capability were inherited from AWS with deployments in multi-AZ.

VPC was used along with NAT servers to ensure the security of the infrastructure.

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails (RoR)

We used Ruby on Rails to develop front and back-end solutions. The cost-effective RoR platform benefits the application in numerous ways including, security, scalability, and quality.

MySQL

It is a relational database management system used to store anything from a single record of information to an entire database of schools. Because of its high availability, flexibility, and scalability, MySQL handles traffic effectively at any point in time.

AWS Cloud

To eliminate unnecessary manual intervention, errors, and maintenance costs, we leveraged AWS cloud to make the data available anytime across all devices.

Improving the quality of FCIS application

We adopted an agile application testing strategy in which different modules of the application have been tested concurrently to identify bugs and resolve them in the early stages. As FCIS is a full-stack application, we’ve used JIRA/Redmine tools for functional testing to check the application’s functionality across browsers. Database testing tools are used to examine the errors in the linked database of software. Above all, our “test early and test often” strategy helped develop and deliver a bug-free application that streamlined the accreditation process with a few simple clicks resulting in 30% of the time spent on data management.

Why Amzur

Amzur has wide experience in developing EdTech solutions for the past 18 years. Our in-depth expertise in Ruby on Rails full-stack development and delivering custom AWS cloud solutions drove FCIS to choose Amzur as their technology partner.

Benefits

With the above solution, FCIS witnessed numerous benefits than before. They include,

The FCIS members with admin access were also able to track all the accreditations and address them without hassles.

FCIS saved 10% of its operational costs and up to 30% of time spent on data management.

Clutter-free communication among organizations and communities.

Conclusion

It is always crucial to find schools with quality education and standards. With numerous schools in Florida, their evaluation has become the biggest challenge for students and parents to make a decision.

FCIS is the premier accrediting body for independent schools in Florida, representing over 157 member schools with more than 73,000 students. To address the challenges associated with the accreditation process, FCIS thought of developing a cloud solution for integrating critical data from all its schools into a single platform and managing all the activities on priority.

FCIS approached Amzur with numerous challenges including, paperwork, process inefficiencies, and mundane school visits. Our full-stack development and AWS cloud architect teams have helped them build an integrated platform for real-time school management and a hassle-free accreditation process. FCIS’s advanced technology solution further helps schools set the standards and advance the quality in matters of legislation and regulation.

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The Solution

Infrastructure Improvements

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Results / Benefits

Enhanced Security

Improved Performance

Operational Excellence

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Education / University Archives » Amzur Technologies

Overview

The Challenge

enhanced responsiveness

The Solution

Shift from a code-heavy to a configuration-based approach to reduce upfront capital investments.

Decrease technology and vendor dependence by focusing on value delivery and optimizing operational expenditure.

Implement Straight-Through-Processing (STP) for improved efficiency across the entire value chain.

Results / Benefits

Conclusion

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Introduction

Customer

Challenges

customized shipment tracking

Solution and Strategy

An admin panel where once a school is added between the school head and FCIS, all reports and visitings get tracked. The admin panel was developed using Ruby on Rails.

The Schools and data are maintained and tracked through their own MySQL database.

Reports were customized as per designs shared by the client. It also has an inbuilt SURVEYS management system.

The entire infrastructure was hosted on AWS EC2.

High availability and Load balancing capability were inherited from AWS with deployments in multi-AZ.

VPC was used along with NAT servers to ensure the security of the infrastructure.

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails (RoR)

MySQL

AWS Cloud