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Case Study TEDxAveiro Develops Event Management System in
2 Weeks using the Free Agile Platform Community
Edition

EDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program
is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to
Tstimulate dialogue through TED-like global experiences at the local level.
At TEDx events, unique talks given by live speakers combine with TEDTalks videos to
spark deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated
independently, on a community-by-community basis.

TEDxAveiro, a non-profit organization, needed a system to manage and control the events
it hosted. The solution they envisioned covered the full cycle of event registration, payment
control, ticket generation, name badge printing and access control at the event venue.
However, being a non-profit organization and having no internal IT department,
TEDxAveiro faced the challenge of how to build such a system in a timely and
cost-efficient manner.
The Solution

Contisystems, an OutSystems Partner, was selected to develop an online centralized
ticketing management system using the free OutSystems Agile Platform Community
Edition. Being a multi-disciplinary project, where hardware and software engineering,
marketing and organisational procedures had to be joined, the OutSystems Agile Platform
was the development platform of choice to enable the agile methodology that was used
throughout the entire process for building the online management system, from scratch
to the go-live.

Another decisive criterion for choosing the Agile Platform was its "built-to-change"
approach, allowing for new requirements and usability suggestions from users to be
quickly reflected in the requirements system and put in production. Finally, the Agile
Platform enabled the system to be fully integrated with the existing public site and the
tickets and accreditation printing systems. The system's main features are as follows:

Public registration Website, where attendees can register themselves for the event;
Automatic operations module manages and sends emails for payment procedures,
validation and interfaces with the name badge printing system;

Operations back-office and reporting dashboard to manage the event's logistics,
providing information to support management decision-making based on the
registration process data and payment status.
Online centralized management system for all the event's staff, with different user
Notes profiles and security access;

Modular design, allowing the system to be re-used for other types of events;

Integration with other components, namely PDA software for ticket validation and
dedicated hardware inside turnstiles.
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