Addressing Integration needs in the education industry with the WSO2 Platform

Last Updated: Jan. 2014

Ruwan is a Senior Software Engineer with the solutions technologies team where he is mainly involved in the development of WSO2 API Manager and App Manager Products. In addition to his product development efforts he is an active contributor to the Apache Synapse project.

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➔ The Challenges…

➔ The 5 Criterias : APIs, Data, Apps, Security and Resources

➔ A couple of use cases and how WSO2 Products will help make your

life easy..

"Business as usual is not in the future cards and we must innovate."

Molly Broad, President, American Council on Education (ACE)

➔ The student demographic is changing.

๏ Most Students are : Non-Residential, Part-Time and Older

➔ Need to control cost and growth associated with expansion

➔ Keep up with E-learning, and make it a competitive advantage

➔ Make themselves available over contemporary channels of

communications and technology.

APIs

Security

Data

Applications

Resources

University “ABC” decides to “INTEGRATE” !

University “ABC”, wants to :

๏ Share student course subscription data (stored as DB tables) in

the academic department with the marketing department as a

REST service for a research purpose.

๏ Host educational / training materials in a centralized location and

display Students the relevant information based on courses

subscribed.

๏ Generate notifications on courses to students and implement an

automated payment reminder mechanism

“If you don't know where you are going, How will you know when you get there...”

๏ Analyze library borrowing / online content consumption

patterns of students for strategic purposes

๏ Analyze historical grades of students over the past years and

identify make decisions accordingly

๏ A Heterogeneous data access layer with WSO2 DSS

๏ Extend your data as SOAP/REST services without a single line of

code

๏ Support for Mongodb & Cassandra in addition to relational

databases

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๏ Filter events by conditions and generate alerts

๏ Process historical RDBMS data in real time

๏ Detect and respond to various event patterns

๏ Joint event streams and create new streams

University “ABC”, wants to :

๏ Share its legacy SOAP services between departments

๏ Outsource development of its latest mobile app to a third party

vendor without worrying about data security

๏ Monitor statistics and analyze what are the most popular services

๏ Implement service chaining and not have to worry about

maintaining code.

๏ Share information between various devices, using security

measures best suited for each platform

“API Management: the missing link for SOA success”- Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO, WSO2

๏ Design, Manage and control version your APIs

๏ Manage Subscription

๏ Associate meta data and documentation to your APIs

๏ Workflows

๏ A store to Advertise your APIs

๏ Documenting APIs with swagger

๏ Plug it into your existing user stores

๏ Add your own mediation / enrichment / transformation logic

๏ Apply throttling policies

๏ Control who can see and access your APIs

๏ Block API subscriptions

๏ Observe statistics

๏ Resource level authorization via OAuth2 Scopes

๏ Different Grant types to suit different devices

๏ Authorization Code - For apps running on web servers๏ Implicit - Browser based Apps๏ Password - for when it is required to login with username

and passwords (Privileged apps with a high level of trust)๏ Client credentials - Server to server communications

Custom Grant Types :

๏ SAML2 Bearer - Exchange SAML2 assertion for OAuth2 Tokens

๏ NTLM - Exchange NTLM credentials for OAuth2 Tokens

University “ABC”, wants to :

๏ Facilitate single sign on amongst its in house applications for

students

๏ Need to make certain applications accessible to only users of a

particular designation

๏ Monitor application invocation statistics

๏ Monitor, manage and control access to your web applications

๏ SALM2 based Single Sign On / Single Log out amongst your in

house applications

๏ Easy Administration with Enterprise Subscription

๏ Multi-Tenancy support

๏ Google Analytics support

๏ Document your Webapps

๏ Plug in Workflows

University “ABC”, wants to :

๏ Control access to their SOAP/REST services with a policy based

fine grained access control model

๏ Wants to enable students and staff to log in to in house

applications with their social media accounts

๏ Promote BYOD amongst faculty members whilst maintaining a

strong focus on information security.

๏ Single Sign-On (SSO) via OpenID, SAML2, and Kerberos KDC

๏ Identity Federation

๏ Role Based access control

๏ Plug in multiple user stores

๏ Fine grained authorization via XACML

๏ OAuth2 based authorization

๏ Self-service device enrollment and management with end-user MDM console

๏ Manage both employee and corporate owned devices

๏ Support for Android and iOS

๏ Integrates to enterprise identity systems for device ownership: LDAP, Microsoft AD

University “ABC”, wants to :

๏ Store services provided by all departments in one location and...Isolate finance department from marketingSelectively share some finance dept. services with marketing

๏ Supported by all the products in the WSO2 Stack

๏ One application deployment shared amongst Multiple

divisions / client organizations with :

๏ Data level tenant isolation

๏ Execution level tenant isolation

๏ Selective sharing of artifacts

๏ http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/top-ten-it-issues-2013-welcome-connected-age