2020 - Present
IRIS is an online database that is used for performance reporting by grantees of 14 institutional and fellowship grant programs whose purpose is to strengthen the capability and performance of American education in foreign languages and in area and international studies. IRIS contains the performance reports of thousands of current and past IFLE grantees, from 1959 to the present.
In addition to the secure, password-protected system for web-based reporting, IRIS provides a publicly accessible site that serves as a dissemination mechanism for information about all IFLE grant programs to the international education community and to the public as a whole.
IRIS combines and integrates the reporting applications by developing a single reporting system that provides a centralized and more effective way of collecting, reporting, and analyzing data. The purpose of this requirement is to provide ongoing technical support and services for maintaining, enhancing, developing and/or hosting the system and in-turn, facilitating the effective and efficient management of key IFLE operations.
Additionally, this effort combines and integrates the reporting applications by developing a single reporting system that provides a centralized and more effective way of collecting, reporting, and analyzing data.
Phase 1: The Tactile Group is maintaining and administering the existing IRIS website, which was created in ColdFusion in 2006.
Phase 2: In 2018, The Department determined that all ColdFusion applications must be migrated to a more secure platform. To satisfy this security requirement, Tactile is rewriting the entire codebase for a secure LAMP stack environment. We are not altering functionality or workflows; we are translating the ColdFusion code to a Laravel/PHP framework, and replacing the front-end with modern, responsive templates.
Phase 3: Additionally, the IFLE program team has commissioned a full redesign to improve workflow and data analysis. The redesign, which includes requirements gathering, revisions to content and information architecture, and the addition of new features and new reporting capabilities, will be built on the technical codebase of Phase 2. Some of that codebase will be rewritten for Phase 3 to incorporate new or revised features. The reporting elements will be built in AWS QuickSight.
