Case Study: Dept of Environment and Conservation

Amristar has a proven record within the Department of Environment and Conservation of Western Australia (DEC) and one of its predecessor agencies, the Department of Environment (DoE). Having great familiarity with government policy, issues and systems involved, we have provided high-level consulting as well as project teams to the department.

We have successfully delivered challenging and high-profile projects, which were technically difficulty, and also where business processes and user requirements were uncertain, complex, or evolving. 

Amristar was the key proponent and architect of the three-tier model for web application development within DEC using Coldfusion MX presentation templates, Java business objects, and Oracle databases. The resultant framework was rapidly adopted as DEC’s standard development environments.

Since then, it has been used in numerous DEC systems such as the Contaminated Sites (CSS), National Pollution Inventory (NPI_KATO), CWTS, ILS, SRS, GTRIM and CTS. The ongoing reuse of the architecture across so many DEC applications demonstrates Amristar’s keen understanding of DEC application and business requirements.

The customized three-tier model framework has delivered significant demonstrated savings to DEC in terms of reuse of code, minimization of development costs, and vastly increased ease of maintenance.

Some of the many project which we have been involved with:
•    Clearing Permits System (CPS)
•    Incident and Complaints Management System (ICMS)
•    GTRIM Document management interface
•    CWTS, CSS, NPI-KATO, ILS, SRS, GTRIM, CTS

The department also faced the challenge of improving spatial data related business processes, reducing the access cost and improving delivery of spatial information to the public.

Amristar has managed to streamline workflows by integrating iDelve into DEC business systems and existing spatial data infrastructure. Some of the publicly accessible applications exhibiting our collaboration with DEC include Native Vegetation Monitoring, Geographic Data Atlas and Contaminated Sites Database.