Archie Maskell, IT Consultant
News
March 2010
OCC authored website a finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2009
Over the last 3 years, OCC have been working for Serco developing the Excellence Gateway website, the leading online service for everyone who works in the post-16 learning and skills sector in England. The site is sponsored by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), a sector-owned body that aims to accelerate the drive for excellence in this sector.
The Excellence Gateway has grown into a substantial resource, with over 70,000 taxonomically annotated documents, over 25,000 registered users, and many services targeting specific areas.
A recent such service has been the Skills for Life Curriculum resource, an online interactive tool that promotes flexible and creative use of the curriculum content in a variety of learning contexts, including embedded learning. This resource has now been shortlisted as a finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2009, in the Learning and Skills section.
The site provides its users with an on-line portfolio which enables them to collect and annotate relevant learning materials. It also provides a means for users to help each other by exchanging best practice information, appropriately contextualised to relevant parts of the curriculum.
Serco designed the site to be a highly interactive and responsive resource, and to realise this objective we developed the solution using the JQuery AJAX library running on top of our existing ASP.Net based content management system. The site also uses an innovative navigation mechanism which provides users not just with a clear picture of where they are, and also where they have been within the structure of the curriculum.
For more details about the Skills for Life Curriculum resource and the e-Government National Awards, visit the Excellence Gateway web site.
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Interactive training courses for accountants
We recently developed a bespoke web site for self-training accountancy courses for Now Training. Accountants can update their skills and knowledge with courses on subjects such as money laundering.
Sharing Experiences of Growing Up in Oxfordshire
John Boyle, OCC's MD and co-founder, and Kevin Gell, Tessella's founder, both provided insights and shared their experiences of growing their businesses in Oxfordshire. They answered questions from the floor at this very successful 4 ICT evening at Science Oxford. OCC is one of the largest local ICT companies.
SPOCC, Controcc and PSOCC News
Surrey has become the latest Council to sign up for the Controcc Children's finance system and several councils are going live including Bracknell, Kingston and Hertfordshire. A major PSOCC sale has been made to Hestia Housing & Support, Hounslow.
We made some videos with feedback from participants at a Strategy User Group event for Controcc, a very successful local authority product. View them on YouTube on OCConline, our own channel or at Controcc feedback videos.
SPOCC is our award-winning Supporting People system. Controcc is the complete social services contract management and financial assessment management suite.
Its implementation involves complex data migration and business process change. We are developing Controcc further to support specific requirements of Social Services.
- St. Helen's and Surrey are our latest Controcc clients
- Bracknell, Kingston and Hertfordshire Councils are going live with Controcc
- East Sussex have added Controcc's Payments and Billing module to the Contract Management module
- Bracknell Forest and Hertfordshire have purchased Controcc Payments and Charging modules.
- Hampshire is our 40th SPOCC client
- Controcc installations have increased from 12 to 18 in the past 2 months
- Lewisham have bought a Controcc Finance module
- Two Housing Associations have commissioned PSOCC implementations
Science Incorporated
John Boyle, MD of OCC, participated in a very insightful discussion with Richard Mercer of Science Oxford talking about how he has spent the last 20 years bringing software and technology to the market place Science Incorporated webcast.
OCC's local government website
Find out about our integrated solutions for local authority and service providers on our dedicated website.
OCC's eNewsletters
Our eNewsletters inform clearly about topical aspects of IT. Chris Henry, one of our senior consultants has written an excellent article on "Data Security" in OCC's latest Newsletter.
