OPAS is currently hosted on infrastructure utilising SQLServer 2008. This infrastructure has proved to be unreliable and services are re-starting itself at least once a day resulting in outages and potentially lost data. Attempts by Infrastructure to resolve the issue have been unsuccessful.
The Occupational Health Unit have been unable to take advantage of advanced functionality in more recent versions of OPAS (such as flow meters) as these have proved to be incompatible with the current technical set-up.
A project is taking place in 15/16 to deliver a new application tier lay with SQL Server 2014 and should be delivering in Spring 2016. The current version of OPAS isn't compatible with this infrastructure but the new version due out early 2016 will be.
This proposal is to upgrade to the new version of OPAS to allow Occupational Health to take advantage of new functionality and to move onto the new application tier to provide a reliable and sustainable platform.
The Occupational Health Unit would continue to experience daily system outages, potential loss of data and inability to utilise up-to-date functionality which would help them to provide a better service for staff & students using their services.
Increased system availability for the Occupational Health Unit
Improved integration and utilisation of equipment within the Occupational Health Unit
Improved supportability of the application and underlying infrastructure
There are potentially costs for the OPAS upgrade
Address obsolescence of technology component