Technical debt isn’t just technical
Pressure to deliver within a limited budget and move on, has resulted in complex, fragmented and sometimes duplicated technology landscapes that are increasingly hard to unpick.
These are leaving behind a complex legacy of expensive to run systems which act as a drag on innovation, efficiency and ultimately impact profoundly on the student experience. All of these have a hidden monetary cost both in terms of resource expended maintaining systems and also licencing and infrastructure costs for what can be redundant systems.
Stretch your adaptive capacities
Technical debt thrives when short-term expediency trumps concern about long-term maintenance and adaptability – doing IT fast rather than right can store up problems for the future as complex, fragmented technical landscapes become increasingly hard to unpick. Understanding where technical debt is having a particular drag effect on agility and responsiveness is a first step for prioritising action. At CoSector we help our customers prioritise, frame and secure support from senior stakeholders to tackle the problem, reworking key integrations to unlock institutional potential.
Generate a step change in your user experience
One customer had been struggling to make a step change to its online learning and assessment experience. CoSector helped identify the root cause as a non-standard integration between its student records system and learning platform reinforced by custom identity and access management. CoSector consultants worked at pace with IT, Registry and Education teams to scope and deliver a solution aligned with sector best practice that enabled legacy, in-house solutions to be retired and the institution to unlock a suite of new standard tools. The project was delivered in less than 18 months, including migrating to standard Microsoft authentication and realigning the learning platform and lecture capture solutions to transform interoperability.
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