July 2008

Connect was selected by a Sefton based SME, Profile - The Business Solutions Company Limited, Ltd to develop a unique and innovative application, e- MASTER©, electronic-Management and Assessment System for Training and Evaluation in Real-time.

This unique, innovative and paperless solution has been designed to replace excessive paper-based assessment and evaluation processes, mandatory in education, training and accreditation organisations.

Features of this powerful application include performance monitoring, management of the entire assessment and a verification process enabling a complete secure audit trail of the assessment and captured evidence. GPS, Global Positioning System, functionality permits pinpoint data collection, whilst fingerprinting, as well as production of individual records of progress and achievement in a single tamper free portfolio, with images, audio, video and handwriting capture, demonstrates the diverse facilities for evidence collection.

Primarily designed to operate on a tablet PC incorporating digital ink technology, e-MASTER© will offer unprecedented opportunities for real- time mobile assessment in both friendly and hostile conditions. However, e-MASTER© is also available for desktop, or laptop PC operation.

As well as the obvious applications in the education sector, for example, to cost effectively address the delivery and accreditation of NVQs and GNVQs in schools and colleges, e-MASTER© will be easily configurable to meet the ever increasing demands of business and commerce throughout the EU and beyond.

Claire Moffatt-Lonsdale, Director of Profile, said: “e-MASTER© is a truly exciting and unique software product which offers for the very first time, a simple, cost-effective process to electronically & holistically capture and record evidence, information and data. e-MASTER© is a stunning approach to improving any organisation’s performance, but its development would not have been possible without Connect’s programming and application skills.”

Ian Finch, Connect’s Technical Development Director, added: “Connect being selected for the development of this novel application demonstrates our technical expertise and our ability to create innovative and leading-edge solutions. Along with e- MASTER©, we believe this application will revolutionise formal assessment for training and evaluation and produce cost and time efficiencies for its users.”

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