IT Architects in Academia
Here are my slides from the AACRAO Tech 2010 conference
Posted in ITANA.
– July 23, 2010
Hi All,
I’ll be presenting on Monday, July 19th at AACRAO Tech 2010. If you going to be at AACRAO Tech, come to the session. I’ll share a link to my handouts with the email list.
Architecture and the Registrar’s Office (RO): A Strategic Alliance
Time: Monday 11:05 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Pershing West
Short Description: The domain of the registrar has expanded over the past few years. It has grown from student records and student relations to partnering with campus on broad suite initiatives. Enterprise Architects, IT Architects and Infrastructure Architects have worked with the RO on Identity Management issues but there is much more to gain from a deeper and wider partnership. In this session, we will define the practice of architecture, look at the strategic goals of the RO and see where the partnership can deliver the greatest value. UW-Madison’s will be a case study for the discussion.
Jim Phelps, Chair
Posted in Featured, ITANA, Meetings, News, Presentations.
– July 13, 2010
The Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education Survey is now live. You can take the survey here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ea_in_he_2010
If you would like to read through questions prior to taking the survey, you can download a PDF of the questions following the link below. Note that the survey has logic so you may not see all the questions depending on your answers.
This is the second year of running this survey. This will be the first time we will start to have longitudinal data.
Download the PDF of Survey Questions.
Posted in Featured, ITANA, Survey.
– February 16, 2010
If we had a Face2Face, would you come? Would you present? Where you would like it to be? You’ll get a chance to answer these and many other questions in an upcoming survey. We are starting the Face2Face planning by developing a set of questions for a survey of the members. Two working group calls are scheduled for the week of February 1, 2010. We will report out at the February 4th ITANA Conference Call.
You can track the planning here:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face+2010+Planning+notes
Posted in ITANA, Meetings, News.
– February 1, 2010
Hi All
Here is the link to the ITANA session at EDUCAUSE in Denver.
http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/ITArchitects/175734
Day: Thursday, Nov 5th
Time: 12:45PM – 2:15PM
Location: Meeting Room 608
Agenda (open to change):
- ITANA intro (who we are, why we are, how to join)
- Outline ITANA goals and point people at wiki
- Define Enterprise Architecture, I.T. Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture
- Provide specific information about what ITANA is doing/has done (data admin, workflow, enterprise architecture, and so forth)
- Current “Future Topics” list
- Report out on workflow
- Gather information about what ITANA plans for the future
- Open discussion with participants re: what they are working on, in terms of architecture
Hope to see you there.
Jim
Posted in EDUCAUSE, ITANA, Meetings, News.
– October 21, 2009
The ITANA membership has identified Enterprise Workflow as a research topic. This topic was also brought up as a follow-on activity at the June, 2009 CAMP meeting. Members from the CAMP workflow group have been invited to work with ITANA on the topic.
ITANA has identified the following activities as part of the research topic:
Join the conference calls and share your experience, case study or learn about Enterprise Workflow in higher education.
Links:
Conference Call Agenda and Schedule
How to Join ITANA
Jim Phelps, Chair
Posted in Featured, IT Architects, IT Architecture, ITANA, News, Research Topic.
– July 8, 2009
Date: May 28, 2009
Time: 1:30PM to 3:00PM Eastern Daylight Time
Agenda Part 1 is a presentation and discussion, Part 2 is a working session on the topic.
How to Join: See the instructions below.
Topic: Kuali on Campus, David Walker, UC-Davis
Presenters:
Over the past few years, the Kuali Foundation has become a major force in the creation of community source administrative software for use in higher education. Work is in progress on a growing list of applications, including Kuali Financial System, Kuali Student, and Kuali Coeus (research administration). These applications are being designed to utilize a common middleware layer, Kuali Rice, which provides a service bus, workflow, access to identity management, notification, and presentation services. This session will provide a brief introduction to Kuali Rice, followed by a discussion of the issues surrounding the use of Rice as an enterprise middleware infrastructure, supporting applications beyond those developed by the Kuali Foundation.
University of California: Assessment of Kuali Rice for Single and Multiple Campus Applications
David Walker, University of California, Davis
For more information about Screen2Screen meetings see:
http://www.itana.org/2009/04/06/screen2screen-and-itana-meet-ups/
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Screen2Screen
For more information about ITANA see:
http://www.itana.org/about/
How to Join the Screen2Screen Session:
There are two portions of the Screen2Screen. You should join both the web collaboration space as well as the conference call.
For the web collaboration space, connect via web browser at this URL:
http://internet2.acrobat.com/itana_meeting/
For the conference call, dial into the phone bridge below:
To join the call, do one of the following:
a. +1-866-411-0013 (toll free US/Canada Only), or
+1-734-615-7474 (Non-US/CA, non-toll free)
PIN: 0140398 (followed by “#”)
We follow the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework: http://www.internet2.edu/membership/ip.html
Posted in ITANA, Meetings, News, Presentations, Screen2Screen.
– May 19, 2009
The Archive of the Enterprise Authorization Screen2Screen and the slides have been posted on the ITANA wiki.
ITANA Wiki – Enterprise Authorization Screen2Screen
Thank you to all who participated.
Posted in Featured, ITANA, Meetings, Presentations, Screen2Screen.
– May 15, 2009
Reminder, this Thursday, ITANA will hold a Screen2Screen session on Enterprise Authorization.
Date: April 16, 2009
Time: 1:30PM to 3:00PM Eastern Daylight Time
Agenda Part 1 is a presentation and discussion, Part 2 is a working session on the topic.
How to Join: See the instructions below.
Topic: Enterprise Authorization, Marina Arseniev
Truly enterprise-wide authorization solutions present challenges from the technology perspective and even more challenges from the business and cultural requirements perspective. Questions about scope, granularity, roles, delegation, and data integration with vendor and other software continue to be posed in many institutions where authorization solutions have difficulty meeting campus needs. Specific common problems and case studies, such as campus-wide access audits, are the focus of this session. We will share real-world experiences, identify common requirements and discuss solutions (successful or possibly not) to better understand common challenges.
This session will discuss why enterprise authorization is so elusive for so many of our institutions; it will be a forum to share successes and failures. The goal is to define what specific actionable steps or decisions architects across our campuses might be able to make that bring vision and clarity back to their organizations.
Marina Arseniev is Director of Enterprise Architecture, Security and Data Management Services for UC-Irvine
For more information about Screen2Screen meetings see:
http://www.itana.org/2009/04/06/screen2screen-and-itana-meet-ups/
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Screen2Screen
For more information about ITANA see:
http://www.itana.org/about/
How to Join the Screen2Screen Session:
There are two portions of the Screen2Screen. You should join both the web collaboration space as well as the conference call.
For the web collaboration space, connect via web browser at this URL:
http://internet2.acrobat.com/itana_meeting/
For the conference call, dial into the phone bridge below:
To join the call, do one of the following:
a. +1-866-411-0013 (toll free US/Canada Only), or
+1-734-615-7474 (Non-US/CA, non-toll free)
PIN: 0140398 (followed by “#”)
We follow the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework: http://www.internet2.edu/membership/ip.html
Posted in Featured, ITANA, Meetings, News, Presentations, Screen2Screen.
– April 14, 2009
As many of you have experienced, travel budgets are being cut or completely frozen. This has made it more difficult to gather for Face2Face meetings. We are looking for ways to bring the Face2Face experience and topics to the ITANA membership. To this end, ITANA is launching a new series of Screen2Screen gatherings and local meet-ups.
Screen2Screen gatherings will be longer than our usual conference calls. We are looking at using Adobe Connect to provide an additional level of interaction and collaboration. Adobe Connect provides a browser based collaboration space including a Notes panel for live meeting minutes, a shared whiteboard, desktop sharing and shared presentations. There is a chat room for capturing questions and/or sidebar discussions. We plan on using Adobe Connect in conjunction with the phone bridge.
The vision for the Screen2Screen gatherings is that the time would be divided roughly in half. The first portion would be a presentation or panel presentation on a topic. The second half would be a working session to see where ITANA should take the topic and to work on next steps. The plan is that the shared presentation, shared white board would be used to present on a topic and build an agenda for the discussion. The notes panel would be used to capture the discussion and as live minutes. The chat panel would be used to capture parking lot questions and questions from those not on the phone bridge. We will use the phone bridge for the audio instead of the web based audio in Adobe Connect.
I encourage you to also think about hosting a local ITANA Meet-Up. You can think of these of regional meetings or ad hoc gatherings. The topics are open to those who gather. We would like the content of the local ITANA Meet-Ups to flow back into the larger group. You should pick a scribe for the meeting to capture the discussion.
I also encourage you to look for opportunities to gather at other meetings that you attend. You can post an email to the listserv asking other attendees to meet for lunch or for a round-table discussion. This is opportunity to meet with your peers and to look for topics to bring to the group at large.
The group has also expressed interest in looking for other ways to gather virtually. Second Life provides a virtual world were members could meet, have discussions and share objects. We could link ITANA Meet-Ups via video conferencing for longer sessions. All the ITANA Meet-Ups would meet together (via video conferencing) to open the day. Each local Meet-Up could take a portion of a topic to work on as a sub-team for a portion of the time. The ITANA Meet-Ups would then rejoin to report out and form next steps.
I hope that by leveraging these other gatherings; the Screen2Screen sessions, ITANA Meet-Ups and ad-hoc gatherings at other meetings, and other opportunities; we can still fill the collaboration and communication gap that has opened up in these tight economic times.
Jim Phelps
Chair, ITANA
Posted in ITANA, Meetings, News, Organizational.
– April 6, 2009
