Background

iShare in the Cloud (iSiC) is a popular application used by scores of local government organisations. Versions are also used by other public and private sector agencies. 

We released v5 of the application in 2012. Many incremental improvements have since led to v5.8, the version that continues to be used today by many of our clients.

Our developers spent many months rebuilding the application from the ground up to create iShare v6 and the migration to this latest version is now well underway.

Unlike previous upgrades which have been delivered ‘in-place’, the move to iShare v6 requires a full migration to updated hardware.

New iSiC customers will get the latest version of iShare. Users of earlier 5.* versions of iShare will continue to receive any necessary bug fixes and security updates, however they are encouraged to migrate to v6 at a convenient opportunity to access new features and an improved experience. At some future point Astun will cease to support legacy versions of iShare, however we will always provide plenty of notice and are able to support customers through the migration.

The benefits of migrating

Since our last major release, there have been significant changes in some of the underlying technologies. As a result, the benefits of migrating will include:

• New features to improve the experience for iSiC users

• Improved flexibility

• Enhanced performance

• Improved resilience