A ground-breaking centralized animal management system meeting the needs of major animal management institutions worldwide, enabling standardized access – for the first time – to a wide constituency of animal management experts.
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ISIS is a non-profit organization with a membership of 650 institutions in 70 countries in over 40 languages. These organizations manage more than 2 million animals in zoos and aquariums, currently using a fragmented range of systems and animal management data standards. |
| Client: | International Species Information Systems (ISIS) |
| Industry: | Animal management and conservation |
| Project: | Develop a global Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) to support a broad range of animal management and conservation activities in zoos and aquariums sharing common standards and data. |
| Services: | Responsible for gathering requirements, facilitating business process change JAD sessions, business analysis, system design and development – using the Microsoft .NET architectural framework. |
| Objective: | Replace multiple regional and local legacy systems with one centralized system allowing any member organization access to world wide data governed by globally accepted standards |
| Solution: | A three-tiered web-based system. Globally hosted, locally hosted and standalone version developed using Microsoft .NET. Full data synchronization ensures currency of global animal data. |
| Result: | A ground-breaking centralized animal management system meeting the needs of major animal management institutions worldwide, enabling standardized access – for the first time – to a wide constituency of animal management experts. |