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
on s
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