Oracle SIS and Sakai Integration Linda Feng, Architect Oracle Academic Enterprise Initiative

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Introduction Goal for today is share vision for integration and plans for upcoming release

Topics Architectural Goals Project Phases Use of Standards Campus Solution – Sakai Mapping

Academic Enterprise Initiative A platform for providing robust integration of Higher Education applications and technologies An out of the box integrated solution for the entire academic enterprise Batch and Real Time Service Oriented Architecture Business process driven (BPEL) Partnership with Unicon

A Multi-Phase Project Phase I will provide services and administration for Enterprise data needed by LMS Phase II provides Enterprise services beyond that needed by LMS, servicing other applications needed by Higher Ed institutions CMSSakaiSIS Campus Solutions

Architectural Goals Phase I: Enable standards-based data exchange between CS and Sakai for Person, Courses, Enrollment and Grades Allow for Independent Operation (Loosely Coupled) Maximize Uptime

SA Person LMS framework Section Info tool Faculty Course Page Course Enrollment Invoke web service to “provide” data LMS-SA Integration: Logical Architecture Grades/ Outcomes

Use of Standards IMS Enterprise Services v1.0 Person Group Member IMS Enterprise Services v2.0 Person Group Course Management Member Outcome

Canonical Course Course Offering Course Section Course Set Academic Group Academic Org Subject Area Course Offering Class Section Sakai Course Mgmt Objects Campus Solution Course Mgmt Objects Course ID or

Next Steps Provide initialization capability Schools can run snapshots as often as they want (nightly) Ensures no missed updates Provide incremental event driven capability Allows near real time data synchronization Occurs independent of running transactions on both source and target systems

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