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Oracle SIS and Sakai Integration

Linda Feng, ArchitectOracle Academic Enterprise Initiative

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Introduction

• Goal for today is share vision for integration and plans for upcoming release

Topics

• Architectural Goals• Project Phases• Use of Standards• Campus Solution – Sakai Mapping

Academic Enterprise Initiative

• A platform for providing robust integration of Higher Education applications and technologies

• An out of the box integrated solution for the entire academic enterprise• Batch and Real Time• Service Oriented Architecture• Business process driven (BPEL)

• Partnership with Unicon

A Multi-Phase Project

• Phase I will provide services and administration for Enterprise data needed by LMS

• Phase II provides Enterprise services beyond that needed by LMS, servicing other applications needed by Higher Ed institutions

CMSSakaiSISCampus Solutions

Architectural Goals

• Phase I: Enable standards-based data exchange between CS and Sakai for Person, Courses, Enrollment and Grades

• Allow for Independent Operation (Loosely Coupled)• Maximize Uptime 

SA

Person

LMS framework

Section Info tool

Faculty Course Page

Course

Enrollment

Invoke web service to “provide”

data

LMS-SA Integration: Logical Architecture

Grades/Outcomes

Use of Standards

• IMS Enterprise Services v1.0• Person• Group• Member

• IMS Enterprise Services v2.0• Person• Group• Course Management• Member• Outcome

Canonical Course

Course Offering

Course Section

Course Set

Academic Group

Academic Org

Subject Area

Course Offering

Class Section

Sakai Course Mgmt Objects

Campus Solution Course Mgmt Objects

Course ID

or or

Next Steps

• Provide initialization capability• Schools can run snapshots as often as they want (nightly)• Ensures no missed updates

• Provide incremental event driven capability• Allows near real time data synchronization• Occurs independent of running transactions on both source

and target systems

Q&A