1. 10 th Anniversary 1999 - 2009 Why Luminis ? What benefit does it really offer Jonathan P. Wheat Duct Tape Programmer, Messiah College ITS

2. General Announcements: Please turn off all cell phones/pagers If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible Please avoid side conversations during the session Questions will be answered ….. Thank you for your cooperation

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

4. The REAL purpose : Reactive Decentralized information Unorganized systems Unorganized users Unorganized data finance authentication ecommerce its help dining svcs. news oracle foxpro departments housing 3 rd party person search registration activities concerts entertainment hr / payroll class information staff parking clubs announcements events mssql access online learning

5. Multiple Locations Multiple Logins No Communication System to system University to student No Data Synchronization Bookmarks / Favorites Ordo ab chao Order from chaos

6. Non-Portal Solutions : Public Site College Website Department sites Faculty sites Club sites Personal / Student sites

7. Public Site Advantages Content is there Content management Hierarchy makes sense Common place Searchable Easy sell COMPLETED

8. Public Site Problems Click, click, click drill down click paths Central – yet displaced Internal / external content Links to private systems in the public Learning curve Wheres Waldo ??

9. Non-Portal Solutions : Directory Directory Style Yahoo Google dmoz Commercial eSyndiCat FocalMedia.net Roll your own

10. Simple Motif Hierarchy makes sense Common place Searchable Implementation Directory Advantages

11. Link Management Design-less Drill down – click paths No Integration No push Wheres Waldo ? Link Directory Problems

12. Enterprise Portals SharePoint : Microsoft Oracle Portal : Heavy / Oracle license Apache Portals Project : O.S. Bitrix : Intranet Portal 2.0 JbossuPortalLiferay HippoInterwovenLuminis EktronExoPlatform Roll-Your-Own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_portal)

13. Role Based Push technology Personalization Integration Single Sign On Home base Portal Advantages

14. Portal Problems Decentralized information Unorganized systems Unorganized users Unorganized data finance authentication ecommerce its help dining svcs. news oracle foxpro departments housing 3 rd party person search registration activities concerts entertainment hr / payroll class information staff parking clubs announcements events mssql access online learning

15. Ordo ab chao ! Organized information Aligned systems Organized users Synchronized data Good luck…

16. Portal Management Content Management (decentralized) Organizational issues Above the fold fights Committee Hell Wheres Waldo ? General Portal Problems

17. JAVA Built on uPortal (older version) behind the times Difficult to modify / patch Banner integration not for the light hearted OOTB – terrible Wheres Waldo ???? Luminis Specific Problems

18. 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

19. The Luminis Advantage One vendor support site for all Its packaged Can be installed by you / SGHE Getting better It is hackable / modifiable

20. 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

21. The Luminis Advantage The developer community ROCKS Luminis Developers Network http://www.lumdev.net

22. Jonathan P. Wheat Duct Tape Programmer Messiah College jwheat@messiah.edu http://www.lumdev.net