Summit 2007 Presentation Proposals
// October 11th, 2006 // 2 Comments » // Technology Bits
It’s that time of year again. I’ve updated my bio and tweaked a few of the proposals I’ve submitted in previous years. I’m submitting fewer this year than past years as many of my responsibilities in the past year have swayed away from Luminis, reducing it’s core status in my workload.
My Title: Portal Administrator and Senior Web Developer
My Bio:
Zach Tirrell is from Plymouth State University in northern New Hampshire. Zach is both portal administrator and senior web developer for the institution. The main areas of his concentration revolve around integrating systems and identity management, Luminis has become a perfect enabler of this. He is often looking to get just a bit more out of Luminis than what is delivered. In the past couple years Zach has become increasingly involved with Summit events. At Summit 2005, Zach presented “LDI Implementation Tips and Tricks”. This presentation was repeated at Summit 2006 as well as a new presentation, “Implement and Deploy Banner Channels”, which was voted in the top 5 by attending reviewers. While at Summit 2006, Zach also co-presented “Alumni Are Coming! Luminis ROI”. Finally, he hosted an informal session in the Luminis Developer’s Lounge where he covered statistics tracking and drag and drop channels within Luminis.
Implement and Deploy Banner Channels
Banner 7 comes with a huge pile of exciting new channels. These channels greatly leverage the relationship between Luminis and Banner, however, implementation is complicated and deployment even more so. Banner channels are fantastic, but they need to be rolled out carefully. Plymouth State University has already run this gauntlet, come hear some of the concerns and pitfalls so you can avoid them yourself.
This is a repeat from last year
Collecting Luminis Statistics
By leveraging the underlying UPortal infrastructure, learn how to take advantage of RDBMSStatsRecorder to generate detailed numbers on who is logging in, logging out, how often, and by role. These numbers are supplemented with other third party statistic tracking utilities. You can then use these numbers to better understand how effective your portal strategy is. Tracking user adoption and growth over time becomes essential to decision making about the portal.
Extending SSO – CAS in Luminis
One of the most common WebISO solutions is the Central Authentication Service (CAS) developed by Yale. In Luminis III.2 CAS became available as an installable module. Learn how to get CAS installed, configured, and where it might fit in your organization. See how Plymouth State University has leveraged the phpCAS libraries to CAS’ify all their internally developed PHP web applications as well as a few third-party ones. What’s best, it only takes a couple lines of code!
This topic is for technical audiences
