Archive for the ‘2006’ Category

Fuelsaver for MoT

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Business view: MoT, in conjuction with NZTA, required a site to help drivers understand how various factors – not least driving habits and the fuel efficiency of their vehicles contribute to their fuel costs.

Technical view: Design, usability testing, and creation of a PHP-based public website and ‘cost calculator’ application, retrieving data from the existing SQL Server Fuel Consumption Database via web services. Sourcing, cleaning and merging of data to support lookup and retrieval of information on new and used vehicles first registered in New Zealand after 2000.

Posted in 2006, Analysis, Architecture, Bartlett Projects, Custom build, Data cleaning, Database, Design, Formal project description, Government, HTML/CSS, Incremental improvement, Javascript, Ministry of Transport, Optimal Usability, PHP, Service/Maintenance, Support, Usability | No Comments »

Searchability and efficiency

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Business view: RRB & RRA wanted improved searchability of their decision databases, to make Abstract creation more efficient, and to provide for greater data integrity.

Technical view: Implementation of MS SQL Server in support of Abstract searches, along with deployment of a custom tag-based structured search facility built in .NET. This became the primary way of navigating the decision library. Integration with case managament system Compass to extract key data for Abstracts. Addition of automated data integrity checks at the point of publication, including a facility  for authorising extentions of structured search metadata.

Posted in .NET, 2006, Analysis, Architecture, Custom build, Database, Design, Formal project description, Government, HTML/CSS, Incremental improvement, Legal, New Zealand Immigration Service, Service/Maintenance, Support | No Comments »