The Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL) offer a number of credit bearing and non credit bearing courses to University staff and students as well as external customers.

The existing administration platform "OLLIE" is a number of years old and in places doesn't exactly fit the business processes for the unit.  This has led to the development of multiple manual procedures with a reliance on recording information outside of the main administration platform, resulting in information not being readily available to users and staff.

This combined with the risk to the existing OLLIE system of it residing on old infrastructure has led the University to replace the administration platform completely.

Although OLL are replacing the administration platform, the project scope extends to reviewing the lifecycle for OLL staff and students and removing any redundant processes.

The scope of the project includes:

1. Replacing the current OLLIE system used by OLL with a bespoke system developed by the University’s Information Services Applications Division
2. Migrating any information required from OLLIE to the replacement system
3. Defining the current end to end business lifecycle
4. Reviewing the business processes and removing any that are redundant
5. Providing an enhanced customer experience by automating where possible and enhanced presentation
6. Decommissioning the existing OLLIE administration platform

 The priority of the project is to replace the functions within the existing OLLIE administration platform, additional features will be prioritised and delivered within the available budget.

The project is scheduled to run over academic year 13/14 and 14/15 with a view to replacing OLLIE around Q4 2014  and enhancing the replacement and integration with other University system in 14/15.

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CESAR went live in January 2015.

Origin of the name : A competition was launched in OLL to come up with the best name and the winner was:

Continuing

Education

System for

Administration and

Registration

= CESAR