Providing Custom Business Apps since 2014

MCR Pathways

Bespoke App for Mentor Recruitment.
Used to track mentors progress during the recruitment process.

Client Profile

MCR Pathways

MCR Pathways are a charity based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their vision is that every care experienced and disadvantaged young person in Glasgow, and soon Scotland, gets the same education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances as every other young person. They pair volunteer mentors with a young person and the mentor spends 1 hour a week, listening and encouraging their young person.

A few details

Bespoke App

MCR Pathways needed a bespoke app to track their mentors as they progressed through the recruitment stage of the process. The project was expanding across Glasgow and so they needed to replace their initial spreadsheet-based solution in order to effectively track and manage mentors quickly, accurately and at scale.

How we solved it

Our approach

Was a simple approach. Consolidate their data and make it relational. As they had been managing duplicate data sets, our app made their data streamlined and more efficient to use in areas such as reporting. We built reporting tools, with MCR Pathways guidance, to make the data they had collected over the years more powerful and meaningful to them.

Design

Simple, sleek, intuitive design. Makes the user experience enjoyable because of its ease of use.

In the Cloud

Making use of AWS EC2 servers, the system’s data resides on the cloud and utilises the full backing and power of Amazon Virtual servers. This means little, if any, downtime of the servers.

Data Filtering

As MCR Pathway’s legacy system was all spreadsheet based, it was near impossible to search on this data. We made filtering and exporting of data simple and effective.

Fine Tuning

Using our bespoke app that provides updating functionality, GoUpdate, we can easily push updates to all the clients GUI files. This allows us to work on development copies of the system without interfering with a live system.

Auditing

Using our internal developer framework, auditing is built into the system. Ever single bit of data entry/modification is logged and easily trackable in the Audit module of the system.