Why Internet Advancement 2.0?

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I checked with my contacts in BSA IT and received permission to post the following:

  1. SB Lite/ Quick Entry / IA2 was a beginning for how Scoutbook would look like in the future. It is a re-architecture of Scoutbook using the common technology toolset used for all of our other BSA products we are building. An APIs based product using fullstack Javascript. Being on a consistent platform + stack => lower cost of maintenance, faster time to market. Currently, Scoutbook is on Classic ASP, a technology that was outdated 10-years back. Please look at thread below for perspective - Classic ASP - It’s totally outdated but is it irrelevant? - Stack Overflow – one can’t find development talent for something outdated.
  2. Bulk advancement import functionality for folks coming in via other products to minimize double-entry for them.
  3. Advancement Quick Entry.
  4. ScoutShop Award purchase invoice generation. Can eventually reuse the same in Scoutbook.
  5. Supports the strategy of having one portal to manage everything a UnitLeader needs to do.

All in all, IA2 will keep adding more to its repertoire and will eventually be what Scoutbook is today + more. It is start of the modernization path for Scoutbook. Hope this helps.

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