Podcasts and Enterprise Architecture

This forty-seven minute podcast features a session recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The session, "The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed?," features Adrian Sannier, University Technology Officer and Professor of Computing Studies at Arizona State University and Brad Wheeler, Vice President for IT, CIO, and Professor at Indiana University.
Video for this session is also available.

This session compares and contrasts the community source model with the commercial software model in higher education. Two presenters with expertise on both sides of the issue discuss the relative merits of each model as the basis for implementing the enterprise systems (financial, student information, contract and grant, and teaching and learning) that underlie the essential operations of most higher education institutions.

This 41 minute podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference entitled, "Extending Enterprise Authentication and Authorization in Higher Education: Building on the Success of Project METEOR". A PowerPoint slide show is also available for this session.

Enterprise authentication, authorization, and federated trust are increasingly important in enabling access to a wide swath of applications that use campus-based credentials. Their use makes access easier and more secure. A review of the successful METEOR federation and the EA2 Task Force work offer insight on how to move forward.

This session features:

• Timothy Cameron, Project Manager, The METEOR Project, NCHELP
• Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University

In this 14 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Steve Wheat and Tod Jackson, both Enterprise Architects for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Founders of the OpenEAI Project.

The purpose of the OpenEAI Project is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations. We suggest you read the OpenEAI Overview for additional background on enterprise application integration (EAI). The OpenEAI Project is comprised of six distinct, but closely-related departments, which address OpenEAI Methodology, Application Foundation APIs, Message Object API, Message Definitions, Reference Implementations, and Deployment and Administration.