EASA is replacing SEPIAC. This is significant news for all DOAs. SEPIAC was built on SharePoint. It worked as a document exchange platform: upload a file, share it with the Authority, manage comments. Useful. But fundamentally a document management layer on top of what remained a manual process.
The new platform is not a better SharePoint. It is built around objects and workflows rather than documents and folders. Compliance data lives as structured entities, interconnected, with defined states. Events are tracked compliance activities within the system, connected too. Sharing can now happen via URL, not only file upload. API interfaces for applicant systems are on the roadmap too. 👍
This is a paradigm shift and a positive one at that. A certification is better treated as a project with actors interacting on data based on their status and schedule, not a collection of files in a folder. Those of us who digitalized their processes have been working like this for years. EASA has reached the same conclusion.
I am involved in the testing phases of this platform and will be sharing share more details as we progress along.
Has anyone else been involved int he testing and wants to share their experience? What is the biggest benefit you see in the new platform?