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EMSOnline: history
Our mission statement: "To convert, via a continuous improvement program, standalone templates and designs into networked apps on a single platform, in order to achieve maximum economy of scale benefits."
Overview
EMSOnline (since 1999) is a sophisticated, robust, intranet-based platform that can be used to hosts apps (tools) within your own firewall. Deliberately coded in Microsoft Office to allow for ease of installation, Gateway nevertheless interfaces with the highest quality online and other systems, RosterCoster.com, RosterCoster.xls, Greenfield rostering ...
Like many platforms that start off small and then grow, we started networking tools in 2001 under another name (EMS), created to host just one app (RosterCoster.xls) for one customer (the Department of Human Services, DHS) with respect to one sector (disability services).
In the early 2000s, significant economy of scale benefits began to emerge (for example, data sharing between apps), and the platform started to grow. That growth continues to this day, and 2010 has become our busiest year ever.
In the mid 2000s, DHS approached us with a request for quote to purchase the platform, but the outcome of this process was that we should retain the platform as an independent provider, and rollouts of upgrades of the RosterCoster and other apps proceeded in earnest, starting out with early versions of RosterCoster.xls released to youth justice services statewide, and into CSOs.
Now, as we enter the 2010s, EMSOnline is a unique platform that has a decade-long track record of reliably processing very large amounts of data for DHS and other organisations. To date, we have processed more than 20,000 rosters, more than a million daily shift variations, more than 30,000 OHS assessments, and similar volumes of client related assessments. In addition to this, we have been constantly engaged in a large number of projects per year with DHS and others for all of this time.
Put simply, we are ready to compete in the 2010s as a reliable, low cost provider of apps in a sector that typically prefers to spend the bulk of its budget on client outcomes, rather than on multi-million dollar software developments, many of which are on the public record for failing in any case.
Procurement
Jandapac Pty Ltd T/A RosterCoster is the supplier for three "platforms" that host "apps", or functionality:
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An intranet-based platform for DHS ("EMSOnline for DHS")
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An intranet-based platform for CSOs ("EMSOnline for CSOs")
The DHS version of EMSOnline is the result of a long and gradual process (since 2001/02) that has, and continues to, network into a single system a large number of previously "standalone" tools and processes within DHS, commencing with RosterCoster, a networked Excel-based tool designed, developed and maintained since 1993 by our principal, Damien Ryan-Green.
A key feature of this process is that although EMSOnline presents now, on some views, as a single system, it was originally developed as a large number of discrete and significantly unrelated systems over a long period of time.
The subsequent networking of the separate systems onto a single platform was post-procurement, and was an initiative at our end, rather than a pre-planned strategy, in terms of procurement.
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Last modified at 15/11/2010 17:59 by Damien Ryan-Green
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