“We developed the portal on InfoBasis ESI v 4.5 using tools provided by InfoBasis and it has been very successful,” says Skills Portal implementation manager Paul White, “but the new platform extends what we can do, and lets us do it faster.” Over 30 local authorities in the UK use JGP’s Skills Portal for everything from skills analysis to management development programmes and 360 degree appraisal.

“The new tool set that comes with the platform makes it possible for non-XML specialists to get involved in sophisticated configuration matters,” explains Paul. “This will cut our time to market, and widens the range of employees we can involve in solution development.”

Paul is also enthusiastic about the new, hierarchical control of look and feel that is possible using InfoBasis ESI v 5.0. “We do a lot of work with groups of local authorities. Although they all use the same underlying database, each requires its own exclusive view of the data, within their own branding. With the new platform we can produce that far faster.”