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Novell in Academia M ark McManus – [email protected] Academic Landscape Collaboration Students • Commoditization • Anywhere, Anytime Access • Resources across institutions • Greater demand • New Business Models • Why attend your institution? Disruptions Reduce Complexity • Unforeseen Disturbance • Easier to register • New Technologies • Strengthen Offering • Student Behavior Shifts • Change Direction Regulations Globalization • Government • Students overseas • Industry • Expanding Markets • Security • Border-mania © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 2 UCISA Top Concerns - The top nine Data network access from devices owned and / or controlled by end-users. 1 Network access for mobile users. 2 Security management of network attached systems 2 User authentication and resource control Ensuring that IT is being fully considered in the development and planning of 4 our institutions. Strategic approach to developing, maintaining and upgrading the IT infrastructure needed to deliver strategic IT-based academic and 5 business services. 5 Enterprise portals, web-based services 7 Ongoing costs of VLE / MLE systems 8 Business continuity planning Risks to services and computing service personnel from inadequate 8 funding © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 3 one Net A world without information boundaries where information systems of all types work well together, connecting the right people to the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 4 Solution Groups : Novell exteNd Novell Nsure Novell Nterprise Novell Ngage : : Opening the door to Securely getting the The best foundation The experience to Web Services right information to for your mixed solve your business : the right people environment problems © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 5 ™ Novell® exteNd > Interaction Opening the door to > Web solutions exteNd Web services > Integration : : : : © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 6 ™ Novell® Nsure : > Identity access Securely getting the : : : Nsure right Information to > Security solutions the right people > Integration : © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 7 ™ Novell® Nterprise : : : :: > Interface The best foundation Nterprise for your mixed > Cross-platform solutions environment > Integration © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 8 ™ Novell® Ngage : > ROI The experience to : : : Ngage solve your > Global services business problems > Consulting & Support : © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 9 Students Staff Institution to Institution File and Print eMail VLE LOCAL ACCESS Packaged Students View of all Applications resources Library/Resource services INTERNET Finance Staff ACCESS HR Payroll Student Records Web IDENTITY Services Partners MANAGEMENT Extend ISdeeamntlietyss M aacncaegsse rt o2 S i n g lieC hpaoint of Common and p e rso na l i seDidre vciteowr/Composearuthorised services secure access regardless of location © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. of all resources 10 Single point of secure access INTERNET ACCESS iChain IDENTITY MANAGEMENT © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 11 What are the Customer Problems? Issues when creating a Firewall Web Servers and Secure Web Applications infrastructure: Intranet Y • Direct Access to Web Servers T I Linux/ R (increase possibility of Employee U Apache C hacking) E S • Multiple User Identities (no single sign on) Y Internet T I • Need to install SSL services R Solaris/ U on each web server C Netscape E Customer S • Need to change links in HTML content from HTTP to HTTPS Y • Many different Web Server T I R Technologies Extranet U NT IIS C E S Partner © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 12 Competitors Solution Agent Based Solutions • Provide Single Sign-On Firewall Web Servers and Applications • Provides Access Control Intranet • Personalization Y T I Linux/ R Previous Issues Still Exist Employee U Apache C E • Direct Access to Web Servers S (increase possibility of hacking) • Need to install SSL services on Y Internet T I each web server R Solaris/ U C Netscape • Often, need to change links in E Customer S HTML content from HTTP to HTTPS Y T • Often need to modify I R applications authentication Extranet U NT IIS C E process S Partner • Many different Web Server Technologies © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 13 The Novell Solution Benefits of iChain: • Single Authentication Point Web Servers and One Net Firewall Applications • Provides Web Single Sign On (headers iChain® and Form Fill) – (can also simulate Linux/ Netegrity SiteMinder) E Apache R • Sends Personalized content to Employee U T applications C U R Citrix • Rewrites HTML data (completely hide T S internal DNS infrastructure) A R F • Dynamically encrypts content as it passes N I Solaris/ Customer through proxy Y Netscape T I R • Single SSL Certificate can be used for all U C internal web sites (proxy based) E S NT IIS • No change to HTML content Partner • No change to applications authentication process eDirectory™ • Remove Direct Access to Web Servers • Provides additional security to Citrix Servers © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 14 Novell iChain - How does it work? Web servers Proxy Server t i User=xx Password=xx r u y ACL c e Browser S Em pl oye eID =4 34 44 1. Authentication- Who are you? 2. Access Control- What do you have access to? ACL 3. Single Sign On iChain 4. OLAC (Personalization) Authorization 5. Data Confidentiality Server © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 15 SAML SAML – Security Assertions Markup Language • XML-based security specification for exchanging authentication and authorization information • Developed by the OASIS standards organisation • Uses include Single Sign-On for B2B services • Designed to addresses the complexities of establishing Business- to-Business communication between differing systems. Over 100 Members, including: – Novell • Sun® – IBM® • Netegrity® – Microsoft® • RSA Security® © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 16 View of all File and Print resources eMail VLE Packaged Applications Library/Resource services Finance HR Payroll Student Records Web Services IDENTITY MANAGEMENT © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 17 Reducing Business Complexity With Service-Oriented Architectures Users consume Web Service Information Assembled into streamlined processes Systems abstracted as Web Services © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 18 Novell exteNd Integrated Services-Oriented Application Development • Comprehensive SOA suite • Combines integration, portal and identity Services to Interaction securely deliver business information to the users that need it • Reduced time to market with end-to-end visual tools • Plethora of visual tools and wizards that speed service Orchestration oriented application assembly and deployment • Standard and Open • Supports the latest industry standards Integration • Only SOA offering that supports deployments to leading J2EE Applications Servers • Security • The only SOA suite supported by industry leading Identity Management solution © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 19 Novell exteNd Integrated Services-Oriented Application Development Interaction and Portal Process Orchestration Business Integration © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 20 Novell exteNd Integrated Services-Oriented Application Development Interaction and Portal Process Orchestration Business Integration © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 21 Novell exteNd Business Integration Abstracting existing systems into Web Services •Broad range of non-invasive connectivity • Hides underlying technology • Uses standard protocols •Leverages existing skills and technologies Request XML • Drag-and-drop data transformation •Easy to use Web • Wizard driven connection and deployment services • “Action-model” paradigm XML Response © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 22 Novell exteNd Business Integration Abstracting existing systems into Web Services Broad range of non-invasive connectivity 3270 CICS 3270 5250 Informix SDK 5250 Microsoft .NET Java JAVA Telnet MS SQL Server Email Data CORBA Siebel XML General Web/HTML ODBC/JDBC HP/ Flat File Oracle EDI 3000 SAP R/3 MQ Series ANSI DB2 JDBC Tandem X.12/EDIFACT JMS HTML SAP JMS, PeopleSoft Sybase CICS MQ XML HP/3000 Series RPC Data General Tandem © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 23 Novell exteNd Business Integration Abstracting existing systems into Web Services 1. Leverage existing skills and technologies 2. Drag-and-drop data mapping and Transformation Specialized wizards and Controls 3. Record events using “Action Model” paradigm 4. Test with “End-to-end” animation 5. Deploy completed services © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 24 Novell exteNd Integrated Services-Oriented Application Development Interaction and Portal Process Orchestration Business Integration © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 25 Process Orchestration Assemble services into streamlined processes • Automates and simplifies complex transactions • Manages long-running business processes Web Web XML Services Services XML Web Web XML Services Services XML Web Web Services XML Services XML © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 26 Process Orchestration Portlet Development Workflow Business Process Management •Model user interaction •Composite Service Oriented •Model long-running complex sequences i.e. document Applications business processes workflow •Smart Links •Process Versioning •Route documents through •Exception Handling complex workflows based on •Monitor, manage and report groups and users •Checkpoint Activity on business processes at every step of execution •Call form sequences from •Wizards generate forms that © June 28, 2004 Novell Inc. 27 within workflows render legacy systems data Novell exteNd Integrated Services-Oriented Application Development Interaction and Portal Process Orchestration Business Integration © June