Strata is a new product directed at the administration business functions of tertiary education institutions in the business of delivering vocational, graduate and post-graduate education. It provides functionality, flexibility, performance and reliability unmatched by any other product available in Australia today!

Strata is designed to support multiple campuses and perform efficiently across limited capacity network infrastructure. Strata features both configurable functional and data access control, including record-level access control (e.g. restrict access to student performance to members of a department). Strata is fully auditable; details of persistent user actions are recorded, for example the updating of the definition of a course.

Strata provides full support for the business processes of –

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• Development of curriculum, and the organisation of courses and classes;
• Student enrolment, and the calculation and collection of student fees;
• Management of course delivery, student attendance and performance recording and reporting, and graduation;
• Online access for students, employers and associated government bodies;
• Statistical analysis and reporting, and statutory and regulatory reporting.

Strata has strong user experience features –

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• User self-service deployment of smart client and software updates (using Microsoft Click Once);
• User workspace for function and data shortcuts (to a function or an entity instance; e.g. enrolment, an individual student or a group of students); all functions are also available from menus;
• Navigational user interface, where users can readily navigate the Strata business object model; for example, Navigate from a student to a course to a class to the students enrolled in the course, and so on;

  Strata List Panel

• Integration with MS-Office: email and export of screen data to MS-Excel; for example, a set of student assessments is exported to MS-Excel;
• Context-sensitive help;
• User-defined reporting, defined in terms of the Strata business object model ;
• Users can transiently arrange, sort, add and remove data-grid columns, from the displayed business object (e.g. student) and related business objects (e.g. student attendance);
• Job scheduling and notification, useful for long running processes (e.g. some reports);
• Capacity for 15 years of historical data on-line; data archiving is typically unnecessary.