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PeopleSoft vs Epicentric Portal Engines for My UW-Madison

PeopleSoft vs Epicentric Portal Engines for My UW-Madison . Jack Duwe and Dirk Herr-Hoyman University of Wisconsin-Madison dirk@doit.wisc.edu January 10, 2000. PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal. New standalone product PS Student/Finance/HR applications will use it

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PeopleSoft vs Epicentric Portal Engines for My UW-Madison

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  1. PeopleSoft vs Epicentric Portal Engines for My UW-Madison Jack Duwe and Dirk Herr-Hoyman University of Wisconsin-Madison dirk@doit.wisc.edu January 10, 2000

  2. PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal • New standalone product • PS Student/Finance/HR applications will use it • We studied the PS Portal for several weeks • Visited the PS home office for a day • Installed the first release the first day (Dec 15) • Brought up key functional examples • Developed a comparative analysis PeopleSoft Portal Review

  3. How did we get here? • 1999 Portal Study • Presented to JA-SIG • Chose Epicentric infrastructure • Apr, 2000: Constructed prototype • Aug, 2000: Released pilot to 500 students • Jan, 2001: Expand to 5,000 students • Mar, 2001: Expand to 20,000 students • Jun, 2001: Release to all students PeopleSoft Portal Review

  4. New Functions Planned for June • Web registration (from PeopleSoft) • to complement current Touch-Tone system • Web email • Web calendar (including campus events calendar) PeopleSoft Portal Review

  5. Why look at other frameworks? • Generally satisfied with Epicentric • Somewhat pricey, depending on configuration • Not yet rolled out widely on campus • PS offers potential of better integration with administrative systems • uPortal continues to be interesting • UW-System considering portals at every campus • Also System-wide license for Student and Finance PeopleSoft Portal Review

  6. UW-Madison Portal Evaluation • Draft distributed at CSG • Compares Epicentric, PeopleSoft, and uPortal • Interested in your feedback PeopleSoft Portal Review

  7. Gartner Portal Market Evalation • Many vendors, noone is “there” yet • Key criteria include • Search across structured and unstructured repository • Taxonomy • Content aggregation • Personalization • Application integration and development PeopleSoft Portal Review

  8. Epicentric experience in My UW-Madison • 12 months of use beginning Jan 2000 • See http://mymadison.wisc.edu • Rapid deployment of live demo, helped in campus discussions of MUM • Started with dev/test/production and demo environments PeopleSoft Portal Review

  9. Epicentric Positives • No professional services help from Epicentric, we did our own integration • Complete control of look and feel • Java, XML/XSL, RSS support • Need to pay attention to standards • LDAP interface using JNDI for authentication • NT desktop for dev env, Solaris for test/prod PeopleSoft Portal Review

  10. Epicentric Positives con’t • Web content aggregation, low hanging fruit • Web admin interface • Delegated admin, sub-portal (3.0) PeopleSoft Portal Review

  11. Epicentric Negatives • Licensing cost • Had to build our own tabbed interface • Hard to move db data from dev to test to prod • Groups not dynamic, no ACLs • No SSO in product • No taxonomy • No messaging technology (could use JMS) • Hard techie questions not answered quickly PeopleSoft Portal Review

  12. Epicentric Negatives • GoCampus saga: Do they care about the higher ed market? • Integration with PS apps • Partnerships with any app vendors we use PeopleSoft Portal Review

  13. Epicentric derivatives • GoCampus • ASP portal • Fizzled about April 00 • Blackboard • A single tab only • Not a partner, stuck on 2.x release PeopleSoft Portal Review

  14. PeopleSoft Portal demo of My UW-Madison • Rough, based on 5 days’ work by PS • Shows examples of content aggregation techniques • Web • Database • PeopleTools • LDAP authentication PeopleSoft Portal Review

  15. PS Portal Positives • Integration to PS apps • Java servlet web server • SSO within product (domain cookie) • Taxonomy and search • Breadcrumbs • Integrated dev tools (PeopleTools) • Rule based roles (dynamic groups), Permission lists (ACLs) PeopleSoft Portal Review

  16. PS Portal Negatives • No sub-portal with delegated admin (tabs) • Relies on PS technology for content integration • Does not directly support JSP/servlets for customizations • Integration with non-PS apps will pose challenges • Only basic XML support PeopleSoft Portal Review

  17. PS Portal Negatives • PS messaging only, no JMS support • New product • PS bad reputation on campus • Timing for My UW-Madison • Wait and see attitude on standards PeopleSoft Portal Review

  18. uPortal Positives • Higher ed focus • Licensing • Java • Open Source, not tied to any vendor PeopleSoft Portal Review

  19. uPortal Negatives • Time to market, 1-2 years behind Epicentric • Long term support • No web aggregation • Just starting on groups and admin interface PeopleSoft Portal Review

  20. Summary Analysis • Epicentric here today and portal framework only product • PS has many resources and fuller vision • uPortal may look good in 2-3 years • SSO and Groups/ACLs are key architectural considerations • 5-10 years before portal market has defined standards and market leaders (if ever) PeopleSoft Portal Review

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