Spike - Business Systems

Our next release Spike 3 has been approved by the Australian Government for use with the new CCMS system to be introduced during 2008.

We are currently distributing a new "CCMS ready" distribution of Spike 2 that will enable services to prepare for the transition.

Spike & FACSIA have commenced pilots in five South Australian childcare centres. These are parallel trials, where services run the new system along side their existing systems enabling comparisons with real world data.

The Spike3 thin-client "viewer" is available for many platforms. This is the latest version for use on Linux.

Download and Install

1. Check you have a Sun Java 1.6 environment installed. If not visit http://www.java.com/ or consult your distribution.
2. Download the viewer linux.gtk.x86.tar.bz2
   or for a 64 bit version linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.bz2
3. Extract it into a convenient location like your desktop.

Using the SpikeViewer

Spike3 is now being rolled out to Long Day Care services transitioning to the new CCMS system. Many services are already operating under the new system.

All LDC services still using Spike 2 are currently being scheduled for transition by December 2008. FaCSIA have approved an extended transition period for Spike users to ensure a smooth conversion of business operations.

Initially a few services are being rolled out each week while the system beds in, this will ramp up as the new CCMS system matures.

The Spike3 thin-client "viewer" is available for many platforms. This is the latest version for use on Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista and 7)

Download and Install

• Install the latest Sun Java 1.6 environment from http://www.java.com/ if its not already installed.
• Click on SpikeViewer Installer to download the software
  or for a 64bit version click on SpikeViewer Installer (64bit).

A Spike update has been released.

A major enhancement is a feature to automatically exchange data with the Canberra CCMS systems at times that coincide with their processing schedules. You will still be able to manually "process CCMS" but this will generally not be necessary. The new feature simplifies your work and will reduce load on their servers and ours during peak times.

Emailed tax invoices will now come with a cover text describing the attachment and who authorised sending it. This enables compliance with the CCMS signing requirements for CCB statements.

There has been much concern and confusion over the requirement to issue a "4 weekly CCB Statement".

Spike's weekly "Tax Invoice" contains CCMS details intended to meet CCMS Statement reporting obligations on a weekly basis.

Over the past few months we have been negotiating with DEEWR to clarify whether they will accept this as meeting your reporting obligation or whether you must also produce a separate statement.

Following recent confirmation by DEEWR that the Spike weekly Tax Invoice satisfies CCB Statement obligations, and that emails can be electronically signed, we have been pressing for the acceptance of electronic signatures on printouts as well.

DEEWR have now clarified they will accept the name and position of the person actually issuing the statement in text at the end of the statement as an electronic signature.

The Spike3 thin-client "viewer" is available for many platforms. This is the latest version for use on Mac OSX.

Download and Install

1. Click on SpikeViewer to download the software
2. Double-click on the downloaded file if hasn't automatically opened
3. Drag the SpikeViewer into the Applications folder to install

Using the SpikeViewer

1. Double-click on "SpikeViewer" in the Applications folder.
2. You can browse our demonstration site using
   username : demo