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DevOps is a way of working that builds closer collaboration between software developers and the team that manages the software after it's gone live. It's related to 'agile development' and is partly a response to agile's tendency to increase the frequency of software releases.

Microsoft Power BI is a great solution for colleges (and other training organisations) that want to build and share business intelligence dashboards.

Moodle's used by a lot of training providers, FE colleges and other organisations to deliver online course material to remote learners. It’s open source so it’s free to download and use - anyone can install it on a server, set up a course and enrol some learners.

The Education and Training Foundation’s new course booking system - ETF Booking - has been designed and developed by SkillsLogic

Detailed financial information about FE colleges is published annually by the Skills Funding Agency and the Education Funding Agency. The latest available data - for the 2014/2015 academic year - is here in MS Excel format.

There's a lot of Skills Funding Agency data freely available of the web - much of it derived from the individualised learner record (ILR).

Microsoft Power BI is a good tool for making sense of what can be quite complex data. It's straightforward to build simple interactive visualisations that highlight patterns in the data and make it easier to spot trends. And sharing Power BI dashboards is also easy - at the moment Microsoft lets you share dashboards via a public url for free.

Musgrave Analytics and SkillsLogic have been working together to develop a state of the art performance management framework for Together Housing Group. The end result is a set of dashboards that gives all staff across the Together Housing Group a consistent view of the the numbers that are used to track performance.

Birmingham Changing Futures Together is a city wide project that aims to support people with multiple needs. It's coordinated by Birmingham Voluntary Services Council and brings together a network of supporting agencies who together will deliver joined-up targeted support to more than 1000 clients.

Our experience at SkillsLogic is that there are two broad categories of bespoke software, each with their own challenges.

We've made good use of Google Charts in our development of the new Staff Individualised Record (SIR) data collection and reporting system for The Education and Training Foundation.