EDGE Environments — EDGE Research Management

As we are at the end of the EDGE 3 rollout with just one country to go, we thought we would give our Users a little update on the EDGE environments available/soon to be available.

If you’re a User and you’re reading this, you know EDGE is accessed via a web browser. Each country who has a subscription with EDGE accesses their instance of EDGE with a country-specific URL. But there isn’t just one EDGE environment available to Users, there are in fact 3: EDGE Production, EDGE UAT, and EDGE Demo. Each environment has a unique URL and can be identified and differentiated by the logo displayed on the Login page and at the top left-hand side of the system when logged in. We thought we would share some information explaining what the 3 different environments are and what they should be used for.

EDGE Production is for Users to access the live instance of EDGE. Within this instance there should be no testing, training, or demonstrations carried out. There is one live instance of EDGE per country.

EDGE UAT (User Acceptance Testing) is for the assessment of new functionality only. New functions and features are released to UAT for User evaluation before being released to the Production environment. No live data should be entered and stored in EDGE UAT. There is one EDGE UAT instance for all countries. This has UK-specific settings.

Finally, EDGE Demo. Users can utilise this environment as a training and demo instance of EDGE. No live data should be entered and stored in EDGE Demo. There will eventually be one demo instance of EDGE per country. We are working on this, but we can confirm the UK’s EDGE Demo is available now.

Since you know a bit more about the different environments, you may be wondering “How can I get access?” Well, that answer is easy. Just contact your organisation’s Lead Administrators (their details can be found under the Support tab) and they can set up an account for you on the environment you would like access to.