2. Bruce Vincent Technical Support Services Strategy & Architecture ITSS Introductory Presentation 9/12/2003 Bruce Vincent, Technology Strategist 25/1/2005 Administrative Systems and Interoperability

3. Timeline of ERP’s @ Stanford 70’s - In the beginning, there was paper and the campus was devoid of automation. 80’s and 90’s - Stanford’s SPIRES/PRISM Mainframe Applications and Environments were extraordinarily tailored to our business processes and logic. Late 90’s - Enter the ERP with huge loss in tailored business process support. This had both intended and unintended consequences. Standardized many transactions. Completely broke integration.

4. Role of Registries + Middleware Aggregate, Reconcile and Publish Source Data Authority Services Group Associations Basis for Identity Management Event Service and Data Harvesting (EAI-like) Basis for Metadata Management…

5. Administrative System Elements GLProcur. GA AP AR LDFA Oracle Financials v11.x HR SA Payroll PeopleSoft v8.44 ReportingEDW Data Warehousing PeopleSoft Portal Person Acct.Org Authority Registries v  Course XML Document ServiceEventsLDAP WG

6. Signet (http://middleware.internet2.edu/signet/) Generalized Authority Registry/Service  Standardizing Roles  Standardizing Actions  Rich UI for Management of AuthZ and Roles  Central Management  Transparent and Auditable  Delegation of AuthZ  Hierarchy Linked to Org.