10 th Anniversary 1999 - 2009 Why Luminis ? What benefit does it really offer Jonathan P. Wheat Duct Tape Programmer, Messiah College ITS.

10th Anniversary 1999 - 2009

Why Luminis ?What benefit does it really offer

Jonathan P. WheatDuct Tape Programmer, Messiah College ITS

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Why Luminis?

The Real Purpose Of A Portal Various Non-Portal Solutions Popular Portal Solutions Using Luminis To Tie It All Together

The REAL purpose : Reactive

Decentralized information Unorganized systems Unorganized users Unorganized data

finance

authentication

ecommerce

its help dining svcs.

newsoracle

foxpro

departments

housing

3rd party

pers

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earc

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registration

activities

concerts

entertainment

hr / payroll

class information

staff

parking

clubsannouncements

even

ts

mssql

access

online learning

Multiple Locations Multiple Logins No Communication

System to system University to student

No Data Synchronization Bookmarks / Favorites

Ordo ab chaoOrder from chaos

Non-Portal Solutions : Public Site

College Website Department sites Faculty sites Club sites Personal / Student sites

Public Site Advantages

Content is there Content management Hierarchy makes sense Common place Searchable Easy sell COMPLETED

Public Site Problems

Click, click, clickdrill down click paths

Central – yet displaced Internal / external content Links to private systems ‘in the public’ Learning curve Where’s Waldo ??

Non-Portal Solutions : Directory

Directory Style Yahoo Google dmoz

Commercial eSyndiCat FocalMedia.net Roll your own

Simple Motif Hierarchy makes sense Common place Searchable Implementation

Directory Advantages

Link Management “Design-less” Drill down – click paths No Integration No push Where’s Waldo ?

Link Directory Problems

Enterprise Portals

SharePoint : Microsoft Oracle Portal : Heavy / Oracle license Apache Portals Project : O.S. Bitrix : Intranet Portal 2.0

Jboss uPortal Liferay

Hippo Interwoven Luminis

Ektron ExoPlatform Roll-Your-Own

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_portal)

Role Based Push technology Personalization Integration Single Sign On Home base

Portal Advantages

Portal Problems

Decentralized information Unorganized systems Unorganized users Unorganized data

finance

authentication

ecommerce

its help dining svcs.

newsoracle

foxpro

departments

housing

3rd party

pers

on s

earc

h

registration

activities

concerts

entertainment

hr / payroll

class information

staff

parking

clubsannouncements

even

ts

mssql

access

online learning

Ordo ab chao !

Organized information Aligned systems Organized users Synchronized data

Good luck…

Portal Management Content Management (decentralized) Organizational issues Above the fold fights Committee Hell Where’s Waldo ?

General Portal Problems

JAVA Built on uPortal (older version) “behind the times” Difficult to modify / patch Banner integration not for the light hearted OOTB – terrible Where’s Waldo ????

Luminis Specific Problems

The Luminis Advantage

GCF / CAS / SSO to external systems Self Service Integration

Deep links / custom channels Banner Integration

Accounts / roles / channels uPortal (Open Source inside) Higher Ed focused

The Luminis Advantage

One vendor support site for all Its ‘packaged’ Can be installed by you / SGHE Getting better It is hackable / modifiable

The Luminis Advantage

You CAN integrate most any system It CAN display personalized data It CAN sync with Banner It CAN be used OOTB It CAN be what you want it to be

The Luminis Advantage

The developer community

ROCKS

Luminis Developer’s Network

http://www.lumdev.net

Jonathan P. WheatDuct Tape ProgrammerMessiah [email protected]://www.lumdev.net