Onnistuminen!
EventMAP have just completed their Event and Portal deployment at the University of Helsinki.
It’s with a tinge of sadness that we can now announce that our long-running software implementation project with the University of Helsinki is now complete. Purely because it means we’ll be dealing less with all the wonderful staff there, who have become firm friends over the past few years – and because we’ll be making fewer trips to the wonderful city of Helsinki.
Our work in Helsinki began with securing a tender to completely redevelop the university’s timetabling and room-booking systems, and deploy a fully responsive scheduling system with web-based components, tailored uniquely to their needs. The challenge was to provide an intuitive, user-friendly experience for staff and a student base of more than 31,000 students that would increase overall levels of efficiency and user satisfaction throughout the entirety of the university’s timetabling, room booking, schedule viewing and curriculum and space planning processes.
To meet the university’s requirements, we built upon our existing Event and Portal systems to deliver a rich software platform, closely integrated with the university’s existing personnel, student information/course management and estates billing systems. The entire deployment took a staged approach to project management, design and development to allow maximum client input into the design process.
The end result is a highly flexible set of systems that provides state-of-the art automated timetabling with integrated room-booking and delivers a comprehensive, easy-to-use management tools that put university administrators and planners in complete control.
Commenting on their new system, Eeva Tuori-Pastila, Project Manager at the University of Helsinki said: “The co-operation with the company has been rewarding. EventMAP’s implementation has had tremendous impacts on our timetabling and room booking processes. For both teachers and students, the timetables are of higher quality and consistency – and much more accessible. For managers, administrators and timetablers, the new systems have created significantly improved efficiencies in planning and overall resource use.”
“As university’s main building is under renovation for next four to five years, the automated scheduling is proving to be vitally important – it’s been possible to allocate teaching to the remaining facilities without any extra work and still preserve the high quality of the timetables.”
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