The Ministry of Education signed a deal yesterday with local firm TechnoNet Sdn Bhd on the provision of the Enterprise Service Portal, which looks set to top all enterprise information management (EIM) systems in scale and functionality.
Senior representatives from TechnoNet and its partner Dnium, a Singapore-based solutions provider specialising in learning management systems, explained that the web-based portal would package all of the Ministry of Education's services into one framework, to be accessed by ministry administrative staff, teachers, students, and the public, according to their respective permissions. Access to secure areas of the system, they promised, would be a no-fuss single-level authentication affair.
Another key aspect of the system will be the omission of any proprietary technologies in the application's blueprints, which will mean the architecture will be open to the development and integration of future add-ons, giving the system good scalability on its technological lifespan and allowing it to better facilitate interaction with the electronic systems of other agencies.
Particular emphasis was placed on this property during its brief promotion at the signing, which is commonly termed in the industry as a 'service-oriented architecture' or SOA.
It has been disclosed that the application, the design of which is mainly owed to Dnium, will run on Dnium's e-learning engines, written in Sun Microsystem's Java Enterprise Edition. The system will boast extensive interface customisability, usability and interactivity, thanks to Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which allows the processing of server requests and responses without needing to navigate to a different webpage for each action.
The presentation at the contract-signing was delivered by Hoi Chong, managing director of Dnium, whose clientele includes Great Eastern Life Assurance, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), Ministry of Education, Times Publishing and the Oxford University Press.
Hoi Chong himself has more than 10 years of experience in Creative Technology Ltd behind him, and was a pioneer member of the Sound Blaster team.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Fei Phoon
Quelle/Source: The Brunei Times, 29.04.2007
