Computerised Research Information System Project (CRISP)

Client: Wellcome Foundation Ltd

Period: September 1993-December 1995

Role: Project Leading, Analysis and Programming

Ambica provided analysis and programming and then project leading services for a £6 million project to develop a client-server system that stored research information to aid the discovery of new drugs. The system was written mainly in CA-INGRES/WINDOWS 4GL on a VAX 4500 under VAX/VMS V5.5 and later transferred to a Sun SPARCserver 1000 under Solaris 2.3 (SunOS 5.3).

Ambica:

• Had initial tasks that included:
  • Preparing and running system tests
  • Supporting user acceptance testing.
• Analysed and designed programs to:
  • Convert data from legacy systems.
  • Exchange data with Wellcome in the US.
  • Provide enhancements to version 1.0.
• Following release of version 1.0, implemented an integrated change control system that exchanged problem records between the main CA-INGRES database, MS Word and MS-Excel using CA-INGRES/WINDOWS 4GL and MS VISUAL BASIC.
• Updated the functional specification and data dictionary.
• Analysed changes for version 1.1.
• System tested version 1.1 of CRISP.
• In January 1995 started project leading CRISP with special responsibility to co-ordinate activities between the implementation, support, data conversion and development teams and to maintain the project plan using MS PROJECT V4.0.
• Supported user testing of CRISP V1.1.
• Analysed future user requirements.
• Fixed minor problems for.
• Assisted with V1.2 system testing.
• Assisted with the conversion of legacy data using SQL and CA-INGRES/WINDOWS 4GL.
• Following the take-over by Glaxo:
  • Implemented enhancements to handle Glaxo data.
  • Maintained the existing application code using INGRES/Windows4GL and C.

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