PROJECT

DATE CLIENT2009 / 12 / 2 MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY

EQUIPMENT INVENTORYSEARCHABLE ACCESS TO EVERY PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OWNED OR INSTALLED BY ETC

EQUIPMENT INVENTORYSEARCHABLE ACCESS TO EVERY PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OWNED OR INSTALLED BY ETC

EQUIPMENT SERVICE TICKETS & WORK ORDERSFULL-DETAIL TICKETS ON PROBLEMS SUBMITTED BY ETC’S PATRONS, INCLUDING FACULTY AND STAFF OF MISSOURI STATE

EQUIPMENT SERVICE TICKETS & WORK ORDERSFULL-DETAIL TICKETS ON PROBLEMS SUBMITTED BY ETC’S PATRONS, INCLUDING FACULTY AND STAFF OF MISSOURI STATE

EQUIPMENT SERVICE TICKETS & WORK ORDERSFULL-DETAIL TICKETS ON PROBLEMS SUBMITTED BY ETC’S PATRONS, INCLUDING FACULTY AND STAFF OF MISSOURI STATE

EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT & DELIVERY TICKETSPATRONS RESERVING EQUIPMENT CAN DO SO ONLINE AND VIEW THE STATUS AND EQUIPMENT ATTACHED ON THEIR DELIVERY

EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT & DELIVERY TICKETSPATRONS RESERVING EQUIPMENT CAN DO SO ONLINE AND VIEW THE STATUS AND EQUIPMENT ATTACHED ON THEIR DELIVERY

EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT & DELIVERY TICKETSPATRONS RESERVING EQUIPMENT CAN DO SO ONLINE AND VIEW THE STATUS AND EQUIPMENT ATTACHED ON THEIR DELIVERY

Coming soon: reporting

Completely customizable reports application

Generate reports per-department or per-building

How many people are checking out projectors? Cameras? PA systems?

Which department submits the most work orders?

Which technician has the most open work orders? Closed?

Coming soon: mLab management

Easy-access room usage logging

Help Desk workers can log who goes in and out of multimedia lab editing rooms with just two clicks

Problem ticket logging with lab computers

If a lab computer is malfunctioning, workers can log the issue and the lab manager can investigate it

By the numbers5563 equipment items

373 equipment categories

197 equipment manufacturers

331 checkout tickets (FY)

956 work orders

17 users

324 organizational units

91 locations on campus

Brief technicals

Written in Python using the Django web framework

Web page templates use HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (with jQuery)

Hosted on our Mac OS X 10.5 Server with Apache

All data stored in a PostgreSQL database

Code version tracking and control through Git, hosted on Github

Built using all free and open-source tools (aside from the server OS)

What it all means

Python & Django: insanely easy to learn, quick to use, lots of control

Web standards-compliant languages: it works in more browsers

Rock-solid Mac OS X hosting with industry-standard server software

PostgreSQL database is built for speed and stability

Distributed code versioning allows me to update server remotely

Open-source tools keeps costs down during development