This project will deliver a number of enhancements to the Communications & Marketing (CAM) Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) Degree Finders, relating to the areas described in this project proposal. It is recognised that due to budgetary limitations it will not be possible to deliver all of the desired enhancements. The approach is  for CAM to identify the highest priority enhancements and deliver these as two releases. During delivery new items were added to scope , and multiple releases were identified (in addition to the original two) to fit the business deadlines:

Release 1 - UG changes

Release 2 - Database migration for both UG and PG to MySQL Enterprise v5.7

Release 3 - PG changes

Release 4 - XML export to meet XCRI-CAP standard for exchanging programme marketing information with aggregators ( like UCAS)

Release 5 - Database migration for other CAM and SRA databases to MySQL Enterprise v5.7

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This project will benefit the University by making small changes to the existing UG and PG applications, which will:

• Benefit prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students by making information more directly relevant to their search, and improving usability to enable them to find what is needed more efficiently, presenting an enhanced professional image of the University,
• Reduce time spent by CAM on administration of the degree finder applications.

During the delivery it became clear that to meet the CAM business requirements , the end-of-life compliance work to migrate to the new version of the MySQL database had to be brought forward and added to scope of STU251 to get past a restriction on field size of text blocks

• Ensure the CAM UG and PG Degree finders were on a secure and supported database platform