System Requirements
eReserve and RapidPrint™ are able to be setup to run as a hosted website, or can be deployed on your network across a wide variety of platforms, operating systems, network configurations and even campuses.
eReserve and RapidPrint are stand alone web applications that do not require clunky desktop software to be installed and maintained and can be setup to be integrated with your authentication system, intranet or other webservices as needed.
In order to setup eReserve to run the on your webserver infrastructure, you will need at least the following configuration:
- A Web Server with PHP5 installed
- Zend Optimiser (http://www.zend.com) installed on the hosting web server[s]
- A database server running Oracle or MySQL.
Optionally, you may also want the following:
- GhostScript (used by RapidPrint™) for counting pages in submitted PDF files
- Perl (used by the Print Polling Server) for generating a PostScript banner page (used by RapidPrint™)
- LPR (used by the RapidPrint Polling Server) for sending print jobs to the nominated print queue
- Most professional printers can be accommodated and used by RapidPrint™ - please advise us of your printer preferences prior to purchase and we can advise the most compatible options.
Best Practice Development
eReserve has been developed using best practice development, testing and deployment techniques. These include:
- Three tiered development approach where our skilled team will work with you to setup a development, pre-production and production environment for your eReserve installation so that your institution can thoroughly test and deploy your systems as needed without impacting your live production environment
- Continuous integration, automated testing and unit testing, so that when new features are developed they completely and thoroughly tested prior to deployment in the updated version of eReserve and feature updates enhance and add to system functionality without introducing bugs
- eReserve is developed using Agile practices for rapid and collaborative development of new features - this approach is very client and user focussed and brings the development team closer to understanding the needs of users and creating features to support users.
Security and experience
For your peace of mind, with your purchase of eReserve we offer:
- an independent escrow service where, under certain circumstances, your organisation can have full access to the source code of the software in order to minimise your risk
- $10,000,000 worth of insurance covering IT/Technical services, professional indemnity, and public liability
- 12 months’ phone support.
- Continuous system updates, access to all new features and system extensions as they are released for the duration of your 3 year licence.
