Enterprise Portal Authentication: who are you? Authorization: what are you permitted to do? Personalization: the web pages you see are dynamically created and may present personal information (student portal: grades, financial aid, bursar’s office, benefits, contract and grant status, etc.) Customization: the portal can be customized to present only selected information “channels”
New Business Architecture (NBA) A new business portal for staff Need to re-engineer business processes Portal technology can be used to provide consistent and seamless access to services Requires Middleware support
Current Situation
Future View
Business Portal Web browser Web Server Legacy System
Middleware Person Registry: selected attributes which uniquely identifies persons associated with UC Davis Enterprise Directory Services: additional attributes for entities in the Person Registry (Eduperson standard: department, address, telephone number, etc.)
Middleware Authentication Services: –UC Davis login ID and password –Public key infrastructure Authorization Services: –Allowable transactions –Updating authorization information
Current Situation Incompatible Middleware elements are built for each legacy system Mitigates against necessary coordination among legacy systems
Middleware Support Web browser Web Server Legacy System Authentication Services Authorization Services Person RegistryEnterprise Directory Services