2. Session Abstract
This session will provide an overview of the latest improvements and enhancements made to the Ed-Fi ODS/API in 2016, as well as a preview of what is being planned for 2017

3. Ed-Fi ODS / API: Latest and Greatest
Chris Moffatt
Director of Technology, Ed-Fi Alliance

4. Agenda Overview of ODS/API Platform What’s New in 2016?
What’s Coming in 2017?
Discussion
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5. Platform Overview

6. In the Beginning…. The Ed-Fi ODS / API v2
In the Beginning….The Ed-Fi ODS / API v2.0 Grew Out of Tennessee DOE Field Implementation (also AZ and NE)
TN Extended
Source: TN DOE presentation

7. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes
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8. Platform Fundamentals
The Ed-Fi ODS / API is a highly customizable system
The source code distribution has a complete set of features and can easily be set up to run on a development machine or test environment
Some analysis, planning, and development work are required to put the complete system into production for an enterprise.
See Platform Dev. Guide - Extensibility & Customization , Platform Dev. Guide – Configuration & Ed-Fi Exchange
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes
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9. Technology Stack © 2016 Ed-Fi Alliance A few things to note:
The Ed-Fi ODS / API platform may run on a Microsoft technology stack – but clients and consumers of the platform can be written in practically any language for any modern operating system. See the API Client Developers' Guide for details.
The Ed-Fi ODS / API platform can run in a variety of server environments, including on-premises hardware or cloud-based platforms like AWS and Azure. See the Deployment section in this documentation for details.
Many ODS / API implementers use the solution as a data source for the Ed-Fi Dashboards. As noted in the diagram above, the dashboards use the ODS as a data source, but leverage their own data access layer to pull information from a performance-optimized data mart. This direct approach may be suitable for some kinds of business intelligence systems as well.
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10. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Built from the ground up to provide implementers with a solution to keep data secure and private
Authentication (Identifying the API caller) - oAuth2, over HTTPS
Authorization (Deciding whether to service a caller’s request) – Claims and Profiles
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes
Made to be Secure
Everyone working with student information wants to know that their data is secure, and that students’ information is kept private.
The Ed-Fi ODS / API was built from the ground up to provide developers with a solution to keep data secure and private
More on this in the session on Security
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11. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Out of the box, the ODS / API core data model covers a wide swath of information related to the K–12 domain, with a focus on student achievement.
The data model can be extended to handle information specific to your environment.
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes
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12. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Much of the data access code and API surface have architectural patterns defined, so the ODS / API leverages code generation techniques throughout the system
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes
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13. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
The solution ships with unit tests and integration tests that provide assurance that the system functions as intended.
Code introduced to fix existing issues or provide new features should have accompanying test coverage, and should not break any pre-existing tests 
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes

14. Platform Fundamentals
An Open Source, Customizable System
Made to be Secure
Made to be Extended
Code Generation Wherever Possible
Built for Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Bulk loading is useful for initial loading of data and solutions where data is updated in batches (e.g., for organizations that feed data on a nightly schedule)
A transactional model is useful once you have data in the system. Individual records and fields can be updated in real-time (or near real-time) by client applications
Support for Transactional & Bulk Modes

15. Platform Tools Swagger Documentation Site
Sandbox Administration Portal
Security Configuration Tool
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16. Swagger Documentation Site
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17. Sandbox Administration Portal
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18. Security Configuration Tool
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19. API Clients
Native REST
Client SDK (C# & Java)
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20. What’s New in 2016?

21. What’s New in 2016? ODS/API v2.0 – released November 2015
Adopted a cadence of quarterly releases
v2.1 (June ‘16)
v2.1.1 (September ‘16)
ODS/API v2.0, v2.1 & v2.1.1  All support Data Standard v2.0
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22. API Profiles Profile: Nutrition Content Type: Write Profile: Nutrition
Content Type: Read

23. API Composite Resources
As part of the evolution of the Ed-Fi ODS / API from primarily supporting data collection use cases to a widening set of data integration use cases, a mechanism was needed for exposing Composite Resources
Composite Resource
A read-only resource which combines data from multiple standard API resources in a single call
Reduces the “chattiness” of the API interactions and provide a simple data integration experience for API consumers
Composite definition expressed in XML and compiled into the platform
Standard API Composite Resources
Enrollment
Assessment

24. API Composite Resources

25. What’s New in 2016? API Profiles and Composite Resources New Utilities
Client-side Bulk Load Utility (MI TRIG)
Security Visualization Tool
XML Lookup Utility
Authorization Enhancements
Claimset-specific overrides
Authorization-specific validations
Performance & Stability
Ed-Fi Exchange
ODS Reports
Ed-Fi to IMS OneRoster Utility
ODS/API v What's New
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26. What’s Coming in 2017?
Ed-Fi Technology Roadmap

27. ODS / API – 2017 Roadmap
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28. ODS / API – 2017 Roadmap API versions - n-1 backwards compatibility
Reduce costs and coordination complexity for agencies to upgrade to new versions of the ODS by allowing APIs to support the current and previous standards
This is complex to do and may not possible for 100% of API changes
Requires new functionality (injection of business logic)

29. ODS / API – 2017 Roadmap
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30. ODS/API – 2017 Roadmap
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31. Thank You!
See Ed-Fi 2016 Developer Boot Camp for more in-depth information
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32. Thank you for attending the 2016 Ed-Fi Summit.
We’ll see you next year!
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