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Gateway is an intranet-based platform that nevertheless links into the many advantages of a web-based platform (for example, access to online user manuals shared by many organisations, or to RosterCoster.com) but which also has the security and other advantages of a platform loaded on your intranet (for example, ability to run workflows via your local email system).
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Once you have one app at Gateway, other apps get to leverage off the work trail-blazed by that app, for example, lists of client details, house details, user permissions and anything else you add to the Gateway databases to service your first app.
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Bolt your Gateway onto your local HR or client management system, if you like, and have it inherit client details, house details, user permissions ... almost anything. We promote the idea that sometimes it is better for us to data share with competitors, rather than have you seek the often more expensive option of being dependent on one provider for all your systems needs. Put simply, some tools are just better at some things than others. For example, we do rostering very well.
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Your Microsoft Word and Excel templates decommissioned. At Gateway, you can design your own template (sketch it up in Excel, perhaps?) and have it converted into an app: Gateway is pre-code for your own apps, which can be converted into genuinely networked interfaces much quicker than if you were to start from scratch. The benefit is that the pre-code fast tracks the early stages of the development of your apps, and the cost is split between pre-code and coding specific to your app.
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Reducing administrative burden. For every template processed via Gateway/EMSOnline, this is one less template that a user needs to think about or even know about. It's also one less file for a user to 'lose', either accidentally or via a hard drive crash. In short, there is no such thing as a blank template to download, say, from the internet or your intranet.
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Keeping development costs very low. We recommend use pre-existing templates close to 'as is', and then engage users help you upgrade them to Gateway the tool 'live'. In a large population of users, you will get sufficient feedback, even if most users do not respond. Further, this approach maximises user acceptance, minimises change management, and minimises training. In short, this is an alternative to a large development team, and a formal specifcation that might, in ordinary circumstances, cost more than your entire budget, even before coding starts. The starting spec. is your existing system, and the testing team is you and your users.
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Last modified at 24/09/2010 15:27 by Damien Ryan-Green
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