In the current funding environment, demonstrating that your gateway is actually providing the kind of service you are funded for is becoming more and more important. Also as more gateways move beyond projects and into full blown services, service providers are turning their attention to how they might produce suitable usage statistics from their gateways, both in order to justify themselves to funders but also to ensure they are responding to user requirements. These are still quite crude however and mostly rely on third party software which extracts information from standard Apache Web server logs. Many users have expressed a desire to have the option of sorting search results in other ways however. The default Admin Centre is generated dynamically from a script.
Most users find it much easier to use a static HTML page however.
This allows users to have multiple interfaces. In particular users often request the option to have a separate interface for cataloguers and gateway admin staff. This enables them to remove links to any tools which only the admin staff use regularly making for a less cluttered and confusing interface. This is partly due to the fact that many users would like to change the labels for fields in the Web based template editor. Because the software does not allow this, many users have changed template attributes instead.