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University of Manchester Applications Website

Licensing of software is big business for higher education institutions and software companies. Virtual Construction designed and developed this professional, easy-to-manage website to provide accurate general information, instruction manuals, downloads and securely deliver license codes worth millions of pounds to tens of thousands of staff and students.

We created this website from the ground up, migrating from IIS/ASP/MSSQL to Apache2/PHP5/MySQL4 in order to provide cost savings, and migrate onto a more supported technology stack. The CMS was developed by Virtual Construction using an Model-View-Controller Object-Oriented-Programming design pattern in PHP. It integrates with the existing staff and student directory to protect sensitive content and license codes via LDAP.

Visit the University Applications Group Website