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University Information Systems : 

University Information Systems Associate Vice President Norma Holland Directors Dennis Cromwell, Laurie Sullivan, Barry Walsh

ITSP Reflections : 

ITSP Reflections PeopleSoft ERP (HRMS and SIS) SIS third-party products Unicorn Library System Oncourse IU Information Environment OneStart Portal OneStart Workflow Edocs Time MMS ERA Oracle database Enterprise-class Unix implementation Java development environment Linux Web/J2EE Storage Area Network Data Warehouse Thin-client access to client/server applications

ITSP Reflections : 

ITSP Reflections PeopleSoft ERP (HRMS and SIS) SIS third-party products Unicorn Library System Oncourse IU Information Environment OneStart Portal OneStart Workflow Edocs Time MMS ERA Oracle database Enterprise-class Unix implementation Java development environment Linux Web/J2EE Storage Area Network Data Warehouse Thin-client access to client/server applications

University Information Systems Futures : 

University Information Systems Futures SIS and HR – Updates and enhancements Oncourse CL – Implementing community source Kuali – Community source for the ERP space EPIC – The last of the mainframe and the first of Kuali Identity Management – Extending the name space DSS/IUIE – Beyond the data group Central Web Hosting – Into this century Disaster Recovery – Plans we hope are never used

Human Resource Management System : 

Human Resource Management System Electronic Document (EDOCS) – Usability enhancements (March 2006) TIME – Accommodate non-exempt employees employees with leave time (March 2006) Reporting enhancements – Migrate historical data from mainframe Planning for 8.9 upgrade

Student Information Systems : 

Student Information Systems Inactive student conversion Legacy system purge and archive 8.9 Planning

Oncourse CL Implementation : 

Oncourse CL Implementation Sakai 2.0 Implemented as Oncourse CL- August Set up as default version Faculty may opt out and continue to use Oncourse Original Sakai partners are focused on IU's implementation this fall All developers are keying in on functionality required by IU faculty Architecture seems to be very stable so far Parallel versions will continue through the academic year

Oncourse CL Architecture : 

Oncourse CL Architecture 16 virtual application servers (VMWare ESX) Virtual database server running Oracle 10g (1/3 IBM P570) Network Appliance NAS – Resource Tool Linux-based load balancer, SSL offloading (future)

Kuali Initiative (http://kualiproject.org/) : 

Kuali Initiative (http://kualiproject.org/) IU FIS ? J2EE Community Source Partnering with like-minded institutions to leverage resources External funding opportunity $2,500,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Development is in full swing with six individual teams being coordinated by Jim Thomas, the Kuali Project Manager

Kuali Research Administration (KRA) : 

Kuali Research Administration (KRA) Electronic submission to university research offices and external funding agencies Reduce time from initiation to agency submission Workflow/routing and approval Budget development; integrated with FIS Links with external agencies…XML/XSLT Compliance Reporting Research risk compliance Reporting/analysis Secure document storage for reference and re-use as new proposal templates On 9/30/05, IU is hosting a gathering of VPs for research in Chicago to explore opening up KRA to additional partners

Electronic Procurement and Invoicing Center (EPIC) : 

Electronic Procurement and Invoicing Center (EPIC) Last major mainframe application On target for a November implementation of the components that will replace TOPS EPIC is blazing the way for Kuali by utilizing the planned look and feel Some components already in production Vendor E-buying

Identity Management : 

Identity Management New Account System – 10/10 New LDAP Servers – Fall 2005 Legacy clean-up - Winter Extending the name space (now-Spring 2006) Applicants Alumni Paperless bills for former students Others CAS 3.0 (future?)

Decision Support/IUIE : 

Decision Support/IUIE Mainframe archived data (March 2006) Integrate open-source Business Intelligence tool with IUIE (June 2006) Pilot dashboard technology within IUIE (2007) Expanded Content - Purchasing, Pre-disbursement Processing, Travel, Falcon and Oncourse (ongoing) Implement new data models (ongoing)

WWW Central Hosting : 

WWW Central Hosting New Search Engine Expanded news content engine (Copenhagen) Migration to Linux Cluster Improved DR Question: Should we support a Central Content Management System?

Disaster Recovery Planning for the Unthinkable : 

Disaster Recovery Planning for the Unthinkable Part of a UITS-wide effort to improve our readiness Current plans based on offsite storage of tape backups New plans to take advantage of two data centers, high-speed network and cost effective disk technology Redundant services for key infrastructure Improve the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from weeks to days Improve the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) that is now based on a daily checkpoint

University Information SystemsManaging IU’s Information Assets : 

University Information SystemsManaging IU’s Information Assets Library Systems – Catalog searching, federated searches, linking resources Financial and Procurement Systems – FIS, procurement, payables, e-commerce, research administration, and document imaging Oncourse – CL, original, resource tool, student portfolio Student Information Systems Human Resource Management Systems Integrated PeopleSoft Services – Upgrades, patches, People Tools System Integration and Onestart – Workflow, data sharing, common tools Database Administration – 100 Oracle instances System Administration – Hundreds of server and tens of TB of data Data Center Operations – Power, cooling, inventory and change management Scheduling and Production Assurance – Thousands of jobs, complex nightly batch, and managing the conflicts Decision Support Services – IUIE, Data Warehouse, nightly refreshes Identity Management – Account Management, CAS and Directory

Remember when we thought the mainframe was complex? : 

Remember when we thought the mainframe was complex? Ahh!, the Good Old Days!!