We all learn how to do things better the 2nd time around after we’ve had some experience….no matter what we do, in work, sports, relationships, everything. That same scenario applies to building software.
SportsBoard is proud to announce the launch of Chameleon, the 2nd generation and newest version of its iPad-/iPhone-/cloud-based mobile player assessment solution.
Chameleon represents a complete re-write of our former “Scout” apps we previously created for 12 different sports. Chameleon enables coaches to completely customize their data models for rating skills and capturing stats, all driven from their SportsBoard cloud account so that all iPads being used by a coaching staff contain the exact same data models for recruiting, season or camp purposes.
From our first generation apps, which contained ratings- and stats-based data models we collected from highly-experienced coaches in their respective sports, we learned that coaches have their own unique systems for skills and stats. In line with how closely we work with our customers, we decided that we needed to devise a way to support customizable data models without compromising SportsBoard’s architecture.
So, a year ago we started planning for this, and in summer 2013, we developed it. Now we are adding customers at faster rates than ever before, and we are signing up big customers in sports such as golf and water polo, since it’s so simple to alter the data model for virtually any sport!
Why “Chameleon”? Because Chameleon is flexible enough to support any number of sports, not just the 12 we created apps for. Rather than coding the sport-specific content in the apps like we used to do, we sync down the sport-specific content when a customer logs in. By re-engineering this design, the same app can morph, like a Chameleon changing colors, into whatever sport and stats the user desires.
We’ve got hundreds of college programs on board, now high schools and clubs are signing on for tryouts and player evals. Join them on this crusade to make player assessments paperless and take efficiency to a whole new level. No matter what sport or level you coach, give us a shout to learn more!
