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Voozanoo

Voozanoo in four words

Online Builder, Online Systems sounds good  to describe voozanoo.

A toolkit, based on open technologies, for publishing online systems, from the very simple questionnaire to a more complex medical record.

Two realms

Shortly, lets say voozanoo maybe split into 2 big realms : the manager realms (a.k.a. back office) and the user one (a.k.a. front office)
Everything from manager realm to user realm is done through a web interface.

The user realm

Includes all the tools to

  • enter
  • modify
  • delete
  • browse records

The user can also :

  • get quick stats (frequency, cross tables, means, std variation ...)
  • export his data (EpiInfo, CSV, Stata, SAS for now)
  • monitor the data (Who changed What, When and How).
  • do some other stuff but too long to describe here ...

The manager realm

Which can be sliced into 4 layers.

  • The Php layer (Zend Framework yet to come) : It's the very low level of voozanoo, specially made for coders.
  • The voozanoo API : made for coders too but providing a convenient interface to drive voozanoo (from external software for instance)
  • The voozanoo GUI, the current version of voozanoo. A integrated interface to build your questionnaires.
  • The voozanoo "job centric" interfaces.
    • We started on year ago building a foodborne outbreak investigation tool, based on voozanoo and providing  a kind of template such a way you simply had to enter the meals and the date, voozanoo took care of the remaining tasks (building pages, creating users ...)
    • We are now working on voozanoo 1.2.3., inspired by voozanoo foodborne experience. Just read a little bit further ...
      The target is quite simple : building a simple questionnaire a simple way.

You see, the more you dig, the "hotter" it is. But if you decide to stay simple, the whole thing will stay simple.

Voozanoo 1.2.3

A job centric affair

So what the heck is Voozanoo123 ? Mmmh if you read the preceding text, you should notice that the new concept we developed for voozanoo was the "job centric" one.

Getting it in a snap yet ...

We've been observing people wanting to go straigth to the essential and our big challenge was to stay tuned to this job point of view without entering hard coding considerations.
Voozanoo123 is definitely built to help the user building his questionnaires in 3 steps.

... not being cut from the smart voozanoo core functionnalities

Voozanoo123 is not a new piece of software built from scratch but a real upper layer put on the top of the voozanoo architecture. This implies  that switching to the advanced side, a user can access all the advanced features of voozanoo from coherence controls to user management system.

Tutorial

Download and follow this tutorial which brings you step by step through a real world example to get you to understand how Voozanoo 123 works. Voozanoo 123 Tutorial.