Enterprise Applications and Solutions

There are increasing demands on state education networks to provide more enterprise applications and services, including course management systems, video-on-demand content repositories, disaster recovery, and shared high performance computing GRIDS. Beyond the sizable economies of scale and efficiencies to be gained by constituent members, what are the benefits to our community? The panelists will discuss initiatives underway in their states and will describe some of the challenges, strategies and implementation issues to consider when contemplating centrally hosting enterprise applications and resources within your StateNet.

This presentation will discuss the strategic planning process the Rutgers University Enterprise Application Services leadership team followed in developing a multiyear strategic plan. Along with the process, a discussion on the strategic plan deliverable and next steps will be discussed.

Many schools desire to make improvements to successfully piloted systems to make them truly enterprise systems. This presentation will describe techniques for managing, improving, maintaining, and operating critical enterprise systems. These techniques have been culled from years of experience managing enterprise portals. While the working example focuses on the campus portal, much of this can be applied to other enterprise systems.

Topics will include organization and governance; team communication; developer communication, tools, and environments; testing tools and techniques; code migration; architecting for stability, reliability, and performance; monitoring; statistical reporting; help desk support and issue tracking; and user surveys.

You will leave the seminar with a comprehensive list of possible improvements to an existing system or items to consider when developing the implementation plan for your next system deployment to help make it a truly enterprise-grade system.

WSU has developed a central solution to allow departments to accept online payments from their Web sites without having to accept credit card information. A central payment site allows departmental sites to use the centrally maintained site for payments, while still keeping the look and feel of their own sites.

We discuss a methodology for abstracting enterprise services and the policies that dictate them through the use of a Web-based user interface. This establishes a unified tool for publication, storage, and recovery of files that streamlines training and support costs, facilitates innovation, and promotes the continued evolution of enterprise-level solutions.

Designing and implementing a network, server, and application architecture for 24 x 7 Web application delivery is a must in today's demanding business environment. This presentation will cover the planning, complexities to address, and necessary steps to achieve reliable delivery of campus-wide financial, human resources, and student applications.

Vendor acquisitions, open source initiatives, and the emergence of service oriented architectures have drastically changed the landscape for ERP systems. In this session, we will share how the University of Michigan planned and continues to plan for the future of its enterprise administrative systems in this dynamic environment and what others can learn from our planning efforts.

Learn how Indiana University has successfully implemented the world's largest installation of the Sakai open source collaborative learning environment on eight campuses statewide. This presentation will cover migration from an enterprise legacy system, tiered support model, virtualized hardware solutions, source code management techniques, and balancing local needs with community-driven development.