Upload
rafe-mcdonald
View
216
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Copyright Gordy Pace, 2006. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.
Presentation outline1. Panel introductions2. About CampusEAI3. Portal projects compared4. Community source model 5. Collaborative development6. Question & answer
About CampusEAI
Consortium of 140 primary, secondary, and postsecondary education institutions and corporations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, China, and India.
Facilitate the development, exchange,delivery and support of communitysource software and digital content.
CampusEAI solutions
• CEAI Portal: Community source solution
• CEAI Collaboration Suite: Integrated e-mail, calendar, content services, real-time collaboration
• : Student-produced programming
• : IP television solution
CEAI portal solutions/services• Solutions
– CEAI Vault – community source software– Oracle 10g portal software– Hardware– Professional services – implementation, installation,
training, testing & documentation– Support– Membership
• Consulting Services– Software development– Application server– Identity management– Training
• Staffing Resources
Portal projects compared
Campus community
15,200 students
1,312 faculty
1,892 staff
97,000 alumni
9,500 students
500 faculty
318 staff
35,575 students
3,211 faculty
3,847 staff
13,960 students
800 faculty
1,300 staff
79,000 alumni
Portal platform
UPortal
Prometheus (2002)
Oracle Oracle Oracle
Current status
In production since September, 2005
In production since August, 2006
In production since January, 2006
Production release Fall 2006
IT staff dedicated to project
1.5 FTE + support of 5 additional staff including students
0.8 FTE + support of 4 additional staff
No FTE – 3 staff resources as needed
1.5 FTE + support of 7 additional staff, including students
Major enterprise systems
Homegrown legacy student systemOracle HR/PayrollMS ExchangeDiebold CS Gold – Food ServicesDesire2Learn LMSHomegrown Events Calendar
Datatel (student, HR, finance) MS ExchangeBlackboard-WebCT LMSInnovative library system
OWLnet (Student Self Service)Mirapoint EmailBlackboardEmployee Self ServiceLibrary ResourcesPerformance Development SystemMyBackPack (central disk space)
SunGard HE Banner (student, finance, HR)MS Exchange emailBlackboardVoyager library systemCBORD food service
Key applications in portal
Food Service portlet
real-time balanceadd money
Events CalendarOnline BillFinancial Aid
RegistrationLibrary DatabasesWebmail
Personal CalendarInboxFile Storage
Blackboard- WebCT
OWLnet (Student Self Service)Mirapoint EmailBlackboardEmployee Self ServiceLibrary ResourcesPerformance Development SystemMyBackPack (central disk space)
EmailMessagingBannerBlackboardHousingCalendarIPTVEmploymentRSS feedsCustomization
Goals of project
Maintain functionality of previous portal
Provide framework to handle multiple constituents
Improved user interface
Single sign-on
Hosted Portal Solution
Integrated Online Services
Recognize savings via consortium
Maintain SSO functionality of old Portal
Independent Portal Technology
Robust, scalable back end
Work with existing iPlanet LDAP architecture
Identity management
Single sign-on
Systems integration
Enhance recruitment & retention
Why CampusEAI?
Shared repository of information and code
Centralized support
GrantEquipmentLicensingTraining
Consortium Partnership Hosted solution Single vendor covering many of our needs
Shared repository of information and code
Support grant to cover license
Deployment help
Cost
CampusEAI grant
Oracle
Community source model
Strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities
Strengths
• Shared work, expertise, ideas• Understanding institutional needs
better than outside vendors• Central organization for
coordination and support• Embedded community culture
(i.e., education)
Weaknesses
• Lack of consistent coding standards and development methods
• Communication (time, distance, tools)
• Bottlenecks with central organization (communication flow, QA of portlets)
• Leadership over a “herd of cats”
Challenges
• Disparity in portal goals and requirements among members
• Managing growth of Consortium to reach out to new members, support existing members, and maintain the consortium itself
• Creating a common purpose among members that elicits participation
Opportunities
• Better tools for collaboration and communication
• Code sharing• Expertise sharing
• Determination and application of standards
• Economies of scale regarding portlet solutions
• Getting beyond the technology
Community Source
Open Source(+) • Flexibility• Control• TCO(-)• Resource intensive• Lacking support
Vendor Product(+)
• “One throat to choke”• Best practice
• Industry experts(-)
• Cost•Lack of control
• Vendor Lock-in
Collaborative development
Approaches, successes and challenges
Approaches
• Organic – Members would freely share portlets in the
central depository. Minimally successful
• Centers of excellence– Members with common systems and goals
write requirements and develop/test portlets
• Informal institution-to-institution connections– Valuable. Critical for immediate institutions,
but inefficient for the community
• Community development center– Better tools for sharing code, collaborating
and communicating
Two levels of portlets
Vault
The consortium provides a vault of supported community-source portlets/channels for Oracle Portal and uPortal
Repository
Unsupported portlets and portlet code available to members through the community development center
Successes
• UM customization portlets • Temple’s Mirapoint e-mail portlet• Single sign-on• CampusEAI login portlet• Training and whitepapers• Remote authentication to library
databases• Student email and other services
Question & Answer