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Technical Session
Jonathan Wood
Agenda
• SIMS Releases
• Technical Roadmap
• SOLUS3
SIMS Releases
SIMS 2013 Summer Release
Summer 2
Release on Friday 23rd August
Release Note ID: 21527
Scope
•Staff Performance
•Fixes to
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Personnel
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Assessment
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Exams Analysis
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Interventions
SIMS Installable Release
For SIMS and FMS
Based on Summer2
Installs SQL2012 Express
Release date: End of November
Autumn Release
• Release Date: Friday 29th November
• Scope Document ID:
• Beta Date: Friday 4th October
2014 Releases
Provisional Dates for 2014
• Spring Release: End of March
• Summer Release: End of June
• Autumn Release: Early November
SQL 2012 Migration
SQL Migration
An Updated SQl2012 migration tool
Available alongside Autumn release via a URL
New functionality
• Discover client redirection
• FMS SQL Binn folder fix
Question 1
What % of your schools are on SQL2012
• 0
• Up to 25
• Up to 50
• up to 99
• 100
Question 2
When do you think that all of your schools will be on
SQL2012?
• Already there
• End of the year
• Spring 2014
• Summer 2014
• Autumn 2014
Technical Roadmap
Technical Roadmap
Technical Roadmap
New update in October.
Key items
• Office 2013 Support
- Spring 2014
• Windows 8.2
– Spring 2014
• Windows Server 2012 R2
– Spring 2014
• Internal use of Office 2010
– Summer 2014
• Support for SQL2014
– Autumn 2014
Technical Roundup
Database Build Numbers
We will be using a new Database Numbering system
 moving to 3.62.xxx
Release Name
Release Version
Database Number
Spring 2013
7.150.
3.61.873
Summer 2013
7.152
3.61.896
Summer (2) 2013
7.153
3.61.901
Autumn 2013
7.154
3.62.105
Spring 2013
7.156
3.62.1xx
SOLUS3
SOLUS3.6.94
• Released 20/9/13
• Resolved issues with Auto-deploy
• Support for
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SQL Server 2012
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Windows Server 2012
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Windows 8
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Server Moves
• Discover Autumn on SOLUS3
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Will not upgrade the Server if it is Windows XP or Server 2003
Feedback
Key Feedback on User Interface
• Contains repetitive tasks
• Too complex to use
• Too Silo based
• Didn’t like black on blue!
SOLUS3.7
Focusing on Usability Improvements
• Reduce skill level needed to install and maintain it
• Reduce the time taken to do key actions
Online customer workshop
- contact me if you are interested
Release in March 2014
Navigation
1. Always visible from top
screen
2. Prompt to save changes if
navigating away from page
whilst making changes
Navigation bar
always visible
Default landing
tab
Multiple
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