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uPortal – Bristol Fashion

uPortal – Bristol Fashion. UoB Portal Team. Why uPortal?. No software budget so needed to be “free” to us Long list: Blackboard, Zope+CMF, Oracle Portal, uPortal Short list: Oracle Portal, uPortal Extended San Diego State University's Rubric for Rating Commercial Portal Vendors )

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uPortal – Bristol Fashion

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  1. uPortal – Bristol Fashion UoB Portal Team

  2. Why uPortal? • No software budget so needed to be “free” to us • Long list: Blackboard, Zope+CMF, Oracle Portal, uPortal • Short list: Oracle Portal, uPortal • Extended San Diego State University's Rubric for Rating Commercial Portal Vendors) • OP & uP scored the same but hardware footprint & Exit Strategy swung it • Zope will be our CMS

  3. What are we using it for? • Pilot Institutional Portal by July 2003 • Initial focus – post-graduates • Now broadened to student administration • And broadening to integration with VLE • Ambitions – Library and existing Web apps

  4. Implementation I • Information Processes & System Plan (From Desktop to Webtop) • Portal Steering Group (26) • Portal Team (10) • Portal Development Team (3)

  5. Portal Managed Learning Environment (MLE) Digital Library Student Information System (SIS) Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) eTools Portal = MLE = VLE + CMS fundamentally content-free Content Management System (CMS)

  6. From Desktop to Webtop An Information Systems Strategy? Casual visitor stellar Prospective student Maintrix Prospective employee fsb eclipse CARB HERO IRIS PIMS Show Room http://www.bris.ac.uk DataHub VIOLET Dolphin Back Office https://www.bris.ac.uk Coda The Portal DataHaven User Web Application server Aleph Student Envision Staff Sports HoD Operational processing Corporate information Information deployment HESA Many readers, some writers Multiple views, depending on role

  7. Implementation II • Phase 0 – startup • Phase 1 – user requirements • Phase 2 – PDT uPortal immersion • Phase 3 – authentication + authorisation • Phase 4 – CalPoly Blackboard Access Channel • Phases n – Channel (n – 4) • Phase x – migrating a channel to Oracle Portal

  8. Problems & Successes • No Project Board yet • Drifting project definition • New Director not in post until July 2003 • The project can’t fix bad processes • Central vs. Local data • Scepticism – track record • Anxiety – cuts across turf • Blackboard • IRIS, Contact Directory, personinfo, Law Intranet, SOBS Intranet, VetSci Portal, etc

  9. Blackboard issues • We risked two portals • Provoked decision about BB Enterprise • CalPoly BB Access Channel is all or nothing • Will BB Building Blocks allow us to cherry pick features? • Looking at open source alternatives

  10. Issues • Delivering high-performing, resilient and scalable portal • Load balancing • How does the UK give to, and not just take from, the uPortal/JASIG community? • “If it's not done in Java it's not worth doing”

  11. Questions • What methods are available to achieve single sign-on to multiple apps? • How stable have the pioneering sites found uPortal? • How have sites dealt with developing against constantly changing uPortal code? • When will Web Services be supported? • What strategies are being used to develop channels? • What about channels being available to existing web sites?

  12. Suggestions • Formation of product-based consortia • CMS (Zope) • VLE (Blackboard) • SIS (SITS) • Library (Aleph) • Formation of technology-based consortia • Authentication (AD, LDAP) • Load balancing (Cisco, Foundry, Linux Virtual Server)

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