It is the mission of our enterprise to support the academic sector with technical solutions of the highest quality. The experienced Ostrakon team has been actively working together with numerous academic institutions since 1997 – as a consultant and service provider.
We understand the requirement of a university and we care about teaching and research.
Our main areas of activity are:
Evaluation – Ostrakon indicate!
Universities of today qualify the decision-makers of tomorrow: With the education of young persons we shape our future; the importance of highest quality of teaching can there fore not be overstated.
Consistent and professional evaluation of teaching is “mission-critical” if the highest standards of teaching quality are to be attained and maintained. The advanced Ostrakon software is a powerful and reliable indicator that allows quality of teaching to be recognized and promoted.
Personal feed back can be provided to the individual lecturers instantly through a web interface, without the need to collect and digitize paper questionnaires and student comments. Overall summaries of courses and departments are generated for the organizers.
Reference customer: Oxford University Computer Service are using our software to send more than 200 surveys each year to evaluate their courses and teachers.
Medical applications:
The highest standards in terms of product quality and reliability are required for medical applications. Our team has developed a highly robust infrastructure for web-based database-driven applications:
- Modern architecture with anonymization of patient data
- Security filter with access control and log
- Hourly backups, multiply redundant data store
- All changes in data records are documented, a history remains available
Reference customer: The “EU Research Program FP6” EVI-GenoRET project is using our system for the European-wide management of patient data and genetic information for the investigation of hereditary retinal disease.
Websites and web applications
In addition to this our enterprise supports academic institutions as a consultant and service provider in developing websites and web applications that make academia work better.