While the core of SDAPS is the optical mark recognition there is a lot more to creating a good utility. Both usability and technical aspects have to be taken into account to achieve the goal of a simple to use utility that is still flexible enough for more complex use cases. With a background for conducting anonymous survey a lot of the feature development to support different use cases was driven by suggestions from the community. Further changes and improvements are now on the way thanks to input from academic users using SDAPS both for surveys and examinations. Especially examinations pose a unique challange as there is a multitude of different ways to conduct these, making custom data processing and workflows necessary. All this poses new challenges to the development of SDAPS as the different requirements should be realized on top of a common core SDAPS code base either by extending SDAPS itself or allowing it to be extended using own code.