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Implementing Open Source uPortal at The University of Georgia

By Sriman Ravi Project Manager Student Portal, UGA Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, PMP. Implementing Open Source uPortal at The University of Georgia. UGA CIO IT Vision. Vision

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Implementing Open Source uPortal at The University of Georgia

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  1. By Sriman Ravi Project Manager Student Portal, UGA Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, PMP Implementing Open Source uPortal at The University of Georgia

  2. UGA CIO IT Vision Vision The vision is to return the University of Georgia to the role of state and national leader in information technology, and to be recognized as the first source of knowledge and expertise in the area of Information Technology standards, best practices, applications, etc. -for more info… Please visit www.eits.uga.edu

  3. CIO/EITS Compact Planning Model Compact Planning :A collegial, participatory planning process for Information Technology at the University of Georgia -for more info… Please visit www.eits.uga.edu

  4. First Round Compact Planning • Met with over 400 faculty, staff, and students in a series of 100 meetings • Received requests for 292 distinct new services and service enhancements • Many incorporated into the 43 Initiatives in the current 5 year Compact Plan -for more info… Please visit www.eits.uga.edu

  5. New Portal Initiative Feedback Analysis: Portal was the most heavily used application Students used it several times per day Students like the convenience of having access to various resources from once place (SSO)‏ Students requested for more services to be added. Portal is slow in responding to user request.

  6. Portal Advisory Board (PAB)‏ The CIO/EITS charged UGA Portal Advisory Committee under the leadership of Associate CIO to develop and maintain a best of the breed student portal which would provide the current functionality with additional features as requested by the Students.

  7. Existing Portal : MyUGA MyUGA is an implementation of Novell Portal Services (NPS) which was later named as Novell exteNd Director. Based on a Sun J2EE Architecture Deployed to a Java Application server (Tomcat)‏ Supports Servlet specification.

  8. New Portal Architecture Non-functional requirements orQoS level requirements considered for the New Portal Implementation: Performance Scalability Availability Reliability Maintainability Extensibility Manageability

  9. New Portal Architecture NewFunctional Requirements considered for the New Portal Implementation: Single Sign On Channel layout and content management Application Integration / Management Customization and Personalization Independent from any specific enterprise software or student data systems Tab management

  10. Portal Software Selection: uPortal PAB decided that uPortal would be the best choice because : Open Source Authentication User Attribute Collection Groups & Layouts Themes and Skins Channels and Portlets -for more info… Please visit www.uportal.org

  11. Tiers/Environments being implemented for Portal project Development Test/Integration Staging Production

  12. Portal Hardware Existing MyUGA New MyUGA Setup Production Staging, Test and Dev

  13. Project Management Portal Project Objective Project Boundaries Project Acceptance Criteria and Deliverables Project Cost External Consulting Services Project Timeline and Deployment Strategy (SDLC)‏

  14. Portal Project Timeline

  15. Portal Status (Timeline)‏

  16. Existing vs New Setup Better Performance Open Source Developer friendly High Scalability High Availability High Reliability Maintainable Ajax Support and More impressive GUI No vendor lock-in More Secured Can be easily integrated with new services, portlets and channels. and More…

  17. Future Integration Integrate all the Student related applications into the portal. Student Financials Student Accounting Student Registration Student Course Mgmt … More Provide content providers with a good tool/application to render content. Research external application integration.

  18. Questions • Email sriman@uga.ed sriman.ravi@gmail.com • Ph: 706 542 5392

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