INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT INTEREST GROUPS PRACTICE PORTAL CASE STUDY

Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). To achieve interoperability between different organizations or interest groups, one possible way is to build specific web portals where structured information can be easily published and consumed. Current work describes the solution where traineeship mediation process was organized through Practice Portal in TUT Faculty of Mechanical engineering. There are different Interest groups associated with the portal: Students - publish their traineeship requests and join traineeship events; Companies publish their traineeship offerings and organize traineeship events; Lecturers represent students or companies in certain situations; Curators - collect the information and manage traineeship. To meet the needs of those interest groups the development project was launched to specify all traineeship processes in TUT Faculty of Mechanical engineering and according to those processes build specific web portal. Current paper focuses to the following aspects during this project: Analysis - how to find out all requirements; Design - how to structure requirements from IT solution viewpoint; Develop - how to find proper technical architecture; Implement - how to go live and involve all interest groups to use the solution.