Case
Panoptic developed for UKRO their first solution: an extranet with e-commerce functions in Microsoft Solution for Internet Business, combining Microsoft CMS for content management, and Commerce Server for user profiling and mailings.
During 2008-2009 Panoptic performed a preliminary requirements study, followed by an in-depth functional and technical analysis, specification and a usability test for the new integrated authoring, publishing and collaboration environment based on MOSS 2007.
The specification comprehends the following main topics:
- Target groups
- Site structure
- Information architecture
- Document management and archiving functionalities
- Online collaboration functionalities
- Web publishing
- Integrated search
- Interaction
- Site design and user experience specification
- Organisational requirements
The usability test was performed for a group of representative users in the UK as means of evaluating the usability and accessibility for the different target groups.
About
The UK Research Office (UKRO) is the UK's leading information and advice service on European Union funding for research and higher education. Established in Brussels in 1984, UKRO is jointly funded by the seven UK grant-awarding Research Councils and receives subscriptions from over 150 research organisations, principally in the UK.
