LUTHERAN EDUCATION AUSTRALIA

Lutheran Education Australia evaluated Digital repositories in order to host worship resources and learning objects for the teachers and staff in 2006.

After an initial pilot study of six months, the HP/MIT DSpace open source repository was chosen and implemented.

The benefit of using Dspace is the robust and scalable nature of the Java and postgres SQL platform that serve as the Dspace platform.

Incorporating the Lucerne search engine makes the retrieval of any document stored in the repository almost instantly. Data integrity of the digital assets are maintained with scheduled Cyclical Redundancy Checking.

The LEA digital repository is hosted on a dedicated server on the fast Internet network serving the Data centre hosting the Valegro servers.

LEAdr is currently being upgraded with a new design and functionality. The new upgraded version of LEAdr and is currently in final testing mode, to be released at the start of the new school year in January 2010.

LEA invested in the following Valegro products and service:

• Web design and development: DSPace Java application coding
• Dedicated Web server hosting: Port Melbourne
• Hardware sales: Servers

For more information see also:

Lutheran Education Australia
LEA Digital Repository (LEAdr)

SMARTCOMPANY

SmartCompany is a completely free news and information site for Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners, and business managers.

The goal of the website is to keep their readers ahead of their competition. Smart Company’s editorial team have years of experience reporting for Australia’s best newspapers and magazines including BRW and The Australian Financial Review. Contributors include Australia’s top entrepreneurs, experts and advisers.

SmartCompany approached Valegro as they wanted to move away from their Microsoft Dot Net system and move to an open source solution with more flexibility and customisation options, while still being robust and reliable. After consulting with the internal stake holders and Valegro, a decision was made to shift to an open source solution, obtaining more flexibility for changes to the web site layout which was very complicated and slow in a Dot Net system.

After a full proposal of multiple services and options, Smart Company approved the path that has now been put in to place.

Smart Company is very happy with their new design and Joomla based website

Valegro underwent a site analysis, and worked with Smart Company’s staff to successfully perform a full system migration using the open source Joomla Content Management System.

Recently SmartCompany was kind enough to officially recognise Valegro as their online technology partner, an achievement that would not have been possible without such a healthy working relationship and successful delivery methodology.

Using data tools, SQL scripts and Joomla components such as JoomSef, MyBlog and Community Builder the entire website was migrated, redesigned and implemented in a very short period of time.

SmartCompany staff still comment to us at both the speed at which such a task could be completed and the enormous sense of achievement experienced having being involved at various levels as the major changes took place.

Today, Valegro continues to work with SmartCompany on a regular basis with enhancements to their bespoke needs. Improvements take many forms from helping implement new modules and functionality, workflow and effective SEO channels and to writing custom solutions to manage the creative advertising endeavours on the SmartCompany website.

Recently SmartCompany was kind enough to officially recognise Valegro as their online technology partner, an achievement that would not have been possible without such a healthy working relationship and successful delivery methodology.

SmartCompany invested in the following Valegro products and services:

• Web design and development: Joomla CMS
• Dedicated Web server hosting: Port Melbourne
• Hardware sales: Servers, Desktops, Laptops

To discuss how our work and expertise and may be able to help you, please contact us on 03 9018-7510, or via this form. To read more of our case studies follow this link.

COMPLETE ONLINE SOLUTIONS

Established in 1996, Valegro is a leader in complete online solutions for small business owners, online publishers and education clients. With over 15 years of experience, today Valegro has an established network of business alliances in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and a large client base who trust Valegro’s experienced team and rely on us for new development work and redevelopment projects. Our Melbourne head-office is home to a committed team of web designers, web developers and account managers.

Our clients include Business Spectator, Crikey.com.au, StartupSmart, SmartCompany, Lutheran Education Australia, and many more. We are entrusted to help develop new turnkey solutions, deliver new websites and microsites, payment and customer management gateways and hosting and web infrastructure.

“I’m pleased that we consistently make our clients happy”

Your website development project will be safe and will be delivered on time with our team of experts working with you every step of the way. Valegro’s CEO and founder, Pieter Coetzee has over 30 years of experience. Pieter has successfully run everything from a large teams of developers, infrastructure specialists and IT support for Arthur Anderson South Africa, through to smaller, specialist teams of web developers with Valegro and other contract client work.

Pieter says “Effective and beautiful websites are absolutely critical to a company’s success”, he went on to say “I’m pleased that we consistently make our clients happy and even more proud to see the jump in growth when the new website is delivered.”

Customised solutions for each client

Valegro has successfully delivered bespoke solutions across our core service areas of;

• web design
  
• web development
• web hosting
• search engine optimisation
• online advertising
• systems consulting

Find out more about Valegro now, by reading about Who we are, who Our business associates and partners are and some of our key suppliers are.

SERVICES

Valegro offers a broad range of complete end-to-end online solutions and services for small business owners, online publishers and the education industry.

Our core services are Web Development and Web Hosting.

Web Design
Web design tasks are delegated to our partners in the web and graphic design industries.  More…

Web Development
Valegro specialise in the development of affordable web systems solutions and the implementation of strategic feature rich easy-to-use online web publishing systems. More…

Web Hosting
Valegro Web servers are all high-end multi-core Intel processor based machines located in the Intervolve Data Centre in Port Melbourne with 99.9% uptime. More…

WEB HOSTING

Valegro Web servers are all high-end multi-core processor based machines using RAID protected hard drives. The servers are collocated in the Intervolve Data Centre in Port Melbourne, boasting a large array of features to ensure maximum redundancy where 99.9% Power, Air and Data availability is achieved.

• Premium High End Web Server Hosting
• Budget Economy Shared Web Server Hosting

Some features of the data centre:

SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT

	99.99% Data Centre Services (Power, Air)
	99.9% Network Services

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT

	Minimum N+1 Redundancy for Air Conditioning
	2 x 65KW Emerson Air Conditioning Units (N+1)
	Temperatures Maintained at 22ºC (+/- 2ºC)
	Humidity Maintained at 50% (+/- 10%)
	Environmental Monitoring

POWER SPECIFICATIONS

	Minimum N+1 Redundancy on Power Supply
	2 x 60KVA UPS Systems (N+1), Backup Batteries
	Onsite Backup Generator, Onsite Fuel Storage for 2 Days Runtime (4 Hour Contract for Further Fuel Provision)

FIRE DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION

	VESDA Fire Detection
	Ceiling Smoke Detection
	Under Floor Smoke Detection
	FM200 Gas Suppression

DATA CENTRE SECURITY

	Access Control via Proximity Cards & Biometrics
	CCTV Camera Monitoring