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Kuali on Campus Screen2Screen Session

David Walker,IT Architect, University of California, Davis
Erik Westfall, Indiana University, Kuali Rice Project Manager and Lead Architect
Curtis Bray, Middleware Architect, IET Application Development, UC Davis

Date: May 28th, 2009
Time: 1:30-3:00PM EDT

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  • Over the past few years, the Kuali Foundation has become a major force in the creation of community source administrative software for use in higher education. Work is in progress on a growing list of applications, including Kuali Financial System, Kuali Student, and Kuali Coeus (research administration). These applications are being designed to utilize a common middleware layer, Kuali Rice, which provides a service bus, workflow, access to identity management, notification, and presentation services. This session will provide a brief introduction to Kuali Rice, followed by a discussion of the issues surrounding the use of Rice as an enterprise middleware infrastructure, supporting applications beyond those developed by the Kuali Foundation.
  • Working group time to push the topic forward and define future activities (if any) that ITANA should take on.

Enterprise Authorization Screen2Screen Session

The summary and archives for the Enterprise Authorization Scree2Screen Session have been posted here:
Screen2Screen - Enterprise Authorization

ITANA is a professional organization of I.T. Architects (Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure Architects et al) who work in higher education. This group is focused on:

  • professional development
  • tools and tricks of the trade
  • forming working groups on topics of interest
  • producing common frameworks, diagrams, whitepapers
  • increasing the understanding about the role of architects in the enterprise and
  • providing support and outreach

You can see our charter here:ITANA Charter.  For more information about how to join ITANA, see our document here: How To Join ITANA.  IMPORTANT: Please Join the Educause CG to take part in the email discussions and to get the news and hear about upcoming events.

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Screen2Screen May 28, 2009

Kuali On Campus

See Screen2Screen for details

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Hot Topics

ITANA is actively working on three topics that were identified as key areas in the Face2Face 2008 meeting. These areas: Data Management, Architecture Implementation Case Studies and Selling Points for Architecture are outlined below. If you are interested in participating, please join the EDUCAUSE ITANA Constituent Group and participate in the Conference Calls.

Data Management

With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?

Case Studies

Descriptions of ongoing Enterprise Architecture programs in your university. How, Who, What, and any impacts the program has had/is having on your IT environment. Descriptions of specific projects that have been significantly impacted (positively) by the Enterprise Architecture program.

Selling Points

How do you describe Enterprise Architecture/I.T. Architecture and/or other architecture practices to leadership on your campus? What does your leadership find valuable in having an architecture group? Do you gather metrics? How could you show ROI for practicing architecture?

Conference Call and Meeting Information

Next Call

Agenda under Conference Calls

Minutes from previous calls
Face2Face Meetings

Next Face 2 Face: EDUCAUSE 2008 - Look for the ITANA Discussion Group on Thursday afternoon

Past Face 2 Face Meetings:

  • Face2Face 2008 - Thanks for great meeting. Agenda and notes are posted here: Face2Face 2008
  • EDUCAUSE 2007 - October in Seattle. Note: we now have a date and time for our meeting: October, 25 2007 4:55PM to 6:10PM
  • Face-to-face meeting at Columbia University in New York, NY on May 22nd, 2007.

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