Cambridge University CEI Case Study

Cambridge University CEI

URL: www.cei.group.cam.ac.uk
Launch date: May 2006
Market: Academic Environmental Awareness and Research

Audience: N/A

 

The Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) had outgrown it's early beginnings and simple administrative tasks such as website control, event planning and the distribution of the Initiative's valuable information was becoming unwieldy for ongoing operations.

 

Chameleon Studios won a competitive tender to impliment a new database administration interface (DAI) using the existing schema and tables already in place. After scoping out the entire project we presented examples and recommendations to take the development to the desired level of control.

This inevitably led to the database being cleansed with particular focus being paid to the graphical interface design and layout. As the project progressed new ideas and functionality were introduced to add value to the overall project.

 

New features such as researcher editing, research group editing, user administration, database query searches, reporting/tracking statistics and event management features are some of the tools that the CEI now have at their disposal.

 

The resulting system empowers the Cambridge Environmental Initiative to update every aspect of their database in a few mouse clicks, something that has been warmly welcomed by the in-house team.

 

Response from users has been very positive and the system is set to go from strength to strength when Chameleon Studios undertakes the next planned Phase of development.