Pennsylvania Banner Users Group 2008 Fall Conference Temple University Implementation A Technical Perspective
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About Temple University Approximately 37,000 students Approximately 8,000 faculty and staff 5 major campuses Mascot is the OWL Founded in 1884 by Russell H. Conwell Implementing Banner NOW
Current Systems Human Resources System 15 years old Financial Management System 21 years old Integrated Student Information System 25 years old
1/2008 6/200812/20081/20096/ /2009 1/20106/201012/20101/20116/201112/2011 fsaAtlas 4/2008 TUPortal 7/2008 Interim TUmarketplace 8/2008 Finance/ TUmarketplace 7/2009 Human Resources 1/2010 Student Recruiting 9/2010 (Fall 2011) Adm/Fin.Aid/Catalog/R25 10/2010 (Fall 2011) Housing & Faculty Info 11/2010 (Fall 2011) Reg/Cashiering/Billing 3/2011 (Summer/Fall 2011) Decommission Mainframe 6/2011 Grading/Transcripts 6/2011 Advancement 10/2010 Kronos 6/2009 Timeline
Approach Multidisciplinary team Concurrent Enterprise wide BPA Report Inventory Integration Inventory Separate Banner implementations for modules
Overview of the Banner Infrastructure Dell Hardware Linux Currently 70+ servers Ultimately about 100 servers VMWARE for non-production Oracle RAC (three physically separate nodes)
Portal Background First portal in 2002 Blackboard Oracle Portal Luminis Launch goals Duplicate functionality Value Added where scope of work = null
TUportal Configuration Parallel Deployment Role Based EAS Full SSL Partitioning Enabled Linux (RH3.8) Clusters on Resource/Calendar DB load balancing (not failover, yet) 5 Environments PROD, PREPROD, DEV, TEST, TRAIN Dont use the L-word
Portal System Diagram
Launch Timeline Jan 2008 Implementation began Feb 2008 Luminis Training Mar 2008 Development Began (30 GCF) May 2008 Setbacks Portlets, Boot from SAN, RSS, GCF port, no SSL w/CPIP inline frame June 2008 Account Provisioning, Load Testing July 2008 Launch
TUportal (not allowed to use L-word) Current Issues Disappearing channels
Open to the Floor Questions Comments