Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
I attended the SunGard Higher Education Executive Summit and Summit conferences in early April 2009. This was the first time I attended Executive Summit and I found it to be highly valuable. There were about 250 senior Higher Education leaders from around the world in attendance. We were presented with roadmaps and strategic directions by senior SunGard HE leadership.
It has been one year since Ron Lang started as CEO and the transformation and direction of the company has moved to be more proactive and value focused. This is great for us as SGHE clients. There are many more changes coming and I am confident we have a good partner in SGHE.
Below are links to my notes from the Summit presentations that I attended:
There were plenty of sessions and no one person can cover them all. I am fortunate to have met key people in SGHE and just as importantly, connecting and reconnecting with my higher education peers and colleagues.
Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
SGHE Summit – Project Horizon Technical Overview – Bob Rullo (@bobrullo)
* power in Moscone West went out just as Bob started his talk. He did a great job working through his presentation with no slides! Great job, Bob!
SGHE Summit – Project Horizon Technical Overview
- needs Oracle 11gR1 database, Oracle Weblogics App Server, Java 6, Grails 1.1
- moving from Banner INB forms to new Horizon (Aurora UI) architecture
- need to migrate CRUD and transaction validation, field level validation (UI centric validation)
Grails Architecture
- a controller handles requests and talks to services to provide a response (data back to the user)
- blocks and fields map to the domain model like a row in a relational table
- field level validation moves to the view as do the canvases and windows – AJAX based
- leveraging automation techniques – by gathering metadata in the Banner Db and create a domain object
- can generate 80 to 90% of the domain models with these tools
- services are also being generated as well as the UI – where are fields located and how do we navigate between them
- we will be allowed access to these automation tools for our custom code and modifications
- look at providing us preview releases to get familiar on how things work and provide feedback to SGHE
- test early and often approach – huge increase in unit tests 100 to over 1000 = better quality
- our people need to learn GRAILS, java, groovy skills as well as spring and hibernate, still using PL/SQL apis
** SGHE please provide us a VM spec for a sample sandbox application
Resource Oriented Architecture – RESTful architecture allows us to extend our Open Digital Campus
More sessions …IT Lounge on Tuesday at 4pm
Posted by Leo de Sousa on April 27, 2010
SGHE Summit – Banner Enterprise Identity Management (BEIS) – Dan Sterling and Mark B
Definitions (Identity Management in Action)
- Provisioning (Create IDs)
- Authentication (AuthN) – is the user allowed to access the system
- Authorization (AuthZ) – is the user allowed to access services within the system
Identity Mgmt in Banner ODC
- Standardization
- Banner Database Components
- Middle Tier Components
- Provisioning Support and Architecture
- Authentication Architecture
- Authorization Architecture
IDM Goals
- adopt a standard UDC Identity definition with UDC Identitfier (GUID for SGHE apps)
- support user provisioning from Banner
- support user provisioning to SGHE apps
Common Identity Definition
- foundation of BEIS architecture is common
- using W3C XML Schema – using SPML and HR XML standard
UDCIdentity some of the data can be mapped to eduPerson attributes
- if you license any Banner product you can download, install and use BEIS without any licensing
Software Prerequisites
- Banner General 8, Intcomp 7.3.0.1, Oracle 10gR2 DB and App Server
- Data mining via Oracle Streams and Advance Queuing
- Banner Streams Capture and Apply API – gp_streams_utils
- Banner Streams Metadata Form – guasadm
- Banner General Rules Form – gorrsql
- CAS 3.2.1.1 and 3.3.1.1
Identity Data Export Utilities
- UDCIdentifier Assigner
- UDCIdentifier Extractor
- LDIF Generator
- SPML LDAP Adapter
Authentication Support
- local native authn
- ldap authn
- claims based authn – applications are configured to not authn and accept an assertion (CAS is an example)
Supported are INB, BSS, Travel & Expense, BDMS