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>> Fronter
Helsinki, April 8th, 2008
Aleksander Pettersen
The Fronter Company
• Founded in 1998– 45 employees in Norway (90 in total)– 12 countries
• K12 (approx 3000)
• Higher Education (approx 100)
• Biggest learning platform in Europe!
"European Seal of Excellence" Gold winner in 2006 and 2004
Fronter installations
Helsinki
Stockholm Oslo Copenhagen Den Haag
London > 1 Million.
90 web based tools
LAMP Technology:LinuxApacheMySQLPHP
Hosting partner:USIT – University of Oslo
> 4 000 000Licenses sold
> 400 000Unique logins daily
Approx. 3000 learning institutions
Fronter Open Learning Platform
IMS ePortfolio
IMS Content Packaging
IMS EnterpriseIMS Enterprise Services
IMS Question & TestIMS Tools &Interoperability
API
Fronter complies with BECTA’s functional and technical
requirements
SRU / SRW
SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework)
SAML / (Shibboleth)
Roll out of Fronter
In UK only: Approx. 30 new schools every week.
All schools need training
All schools need MIS-integration
All schools need a Single Sign On
solution
MIS-Integration IMS Enterprise
IMS Enterprise Services
SIF (Schools Interoperability Service)
Fronter Specific Import
Single Sign On and Authentication solutions Customer specific SSO
Fronter SSO
Shibboleth
FEIDE
Shibboleth
Fronter has joined the LGFLaai federation as:
Identity Provider
and
Service Provider
Will join the uk access management federation shortly.
Shibboleth and IDPRequirements:
Two way integrations with MIS
Shibboleth
Challenges: No unique identifier in the UK
Very few schools and Local Authorities with their own LDAP.
Solution: Fronter UAS (User Administrative System)
Direct integration with all MIS
Act as the IDP
The Fronter installations acts as SP
FEIDE
TODAY: ldap authentication
Moria-authentication will be fully supported by Front
er in 2008
One issue: Fronters Email Client (imap)
Thank you!
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