The CIRU 2022 Retrospective
2022 wrapped up!
This year has been another busy, exciting, and challenging year within the CIRU with one big focus on everyone’s horizon: EDGE 3!
The year kicked off with a flurry of snow and activity at CIRU with our early phase EDGE 3 user engagement, which involved 15 of our EDGE Super Users from across the globe. We gave these select folks a sneak peek under the hood of what we had been working on for the last two years. From their keen eyes we got fantastic feedback and it helped shape our Development roadmap for the rest of the year. To keep close tabs on this work, our Knowledge Officer Nicky Morris stepped across to work as our Product Manager overseeing all aspects of the EDGE 3 build and launch.
Our Marcomms team, Beth Mathis and Gela Jenssen, have been in full force through the year preparing a plethora of new materials for our Users and EDGE 3. Most excitingly, we have seen the launch of two familiarisation videos for all Admins and Users to help guide them through the new look and feel of EDGE 3.
We completed a significant project in late August when we moved the last of our global hosting structures into the Microsoft Azure Cloud. This last piece of the puzzle completed a two-year project for our Infrastructure Specialist, Lawrence Surey, and Development Team Leads, Dave Miller and Andy Bush.
Since late October our Knowledge Team have been working flat out with each of their UK CRN’s and International partners to demo EDGE 3 UAT. Whilst we would all liked to have been looking at the EDGE 3 launch in the rear-view mirror by Christmas, we are entering 2023 at an exciting time with the production launch only a short while away.
We sadly said goodbye to some fantastically talented members of our team in 2022 as Kim Harris and Richard Munday moved on to new roles. However, we welcomed some new faces into the CIRU with Melanie Williams arriving into our EDGE Knowledge Team in the first of our new Client Manager posts. There was a new arrival in our CORE team with Nadine Nowe-Andrews joining us in mid-summer and shortly after, the Development Team welcomed Ian Blunt in late August.
So as 2022 rounds off it must be said that we are extremely grateful to all you out there who have helped us evaluate EDGE 3 and have provided us with your experience, knowledge, and time to help ensure we are building you a product we are all proud of.
We look forward to working with you more in 2023 and wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and New Year.