The Enhancing Student Support (ESS) project has been established to provide an improved experience for students on programmes at the University of Edinburgh. It aims to improve student satisfaction with the quality of the programme through an enhanced support infrastructure for students.

This project is to review the architecture put in place by the previous ESS projects. It is important since the initial ESS IT Tools project was brought in under the premise that the work could be temporary until a better understanding of the requirements was gained and a better solution evaluated.

It will inform the programme to the architectural opportunities and constraints that apply to the future development of ESS systems, taking into account the data and systems available elsewhere within the university.  This will enable better prioritisation of future projects and inform their design choices.  This project was requested by the Applications Architecture Governance Group.