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UBC’s e-Strategy: uPortal and Open Source Applications
Presented to
McGill University Portal Executive Committee
October 24, 2003
Ted Dodds, CIO, University of British Columbia
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eResearcheLearning
People
eCommunity
eBusiness Connectivity
Sustaining Operations
The Framework
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uPortal at UBC
Very early adopter
– Partly defensive to “free” portal vendors of the day– uPortal has outlasted initial competition
Collaborative development
– Contracted with IBS in early 2000– Development and (Java) skills transfer– Rebuild application development capacity in ITServices– Regular multi-institution developers meetings ongoing
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uPortal at UBC
“myUBC” in production September 2000
– uPortal “0.9” – Main channels: web-mail, SIS, calendar– Adoption targeted at incoming cohort (~5,000)– Use grew rapidly to 34,000 users, primarily students
First mover benefits
– UBC was early contributor to JA-SIG clearinghouse– Continue to contribute– Also seek to leverage contributions of others– Upgraded to uPortal 2.0 rather recently
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uPortal International Adoption
Adoption continues to increase
– Based on informal survey– More than doubled in past year– 50% outside USA
Multilingual support
– French, Japanese, Swedish– US-based interest in Spanish– Both framework and channels
Mellon Foundation funding
– US$750,000 over 3 years
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uPortal Current and Future
InfoWorld Nov 7/2003
– Nominated for Top 100 software products
Development plans for 3.0
– JSR 168 enabled (standard portlets)– WSRP Remote Portlet Consumer (remote producer)– Delivery date TBA, possible mid-2004
JSR 168 “portlets”
– Pluggable user interface components that provide a presentation layer to Information Systems
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uPortal and the “Portal Business”Turning from portal software to
– Adapters and connectors– Implementation expertise and services
Portal frameworks becoming standard/commodity
– Applications becoming focus, hence JSR 168
Risk of implementation failure
– Primary cause: lack of content (“empty” portal)– Gartner: 20% is shelfware– Meta: 30% failure rate (better than IT average!)
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Source: Jim Farmer’s report on Enterprise Portals Conference, Chicago, Sept. 30/2003
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uPortal and the “Portal Business”uPortal continues to compete favourably
– User base, technology, open standards– SAKAI would augment uPortal’s position in Higher Ed.
Open Source can complement commercial
– Luminous product based on uPortal– Unicon (formerly IBS) continued engagement and
commitment– Open really means open
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SAKAI Project
Five member consortium
– Michigan– MIT– Indiana– uPortal– OKI
Purpose
– “Code mobility” through open source– Overcome technical and timing challenges– Portal and CMS – Fall 2004– Existing IP integrated – Fall 2005
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Related Open Source Projects
SAKAI institutions offer extensive code base
– Institutional level commitment to open source– Belief that sharing provides greater value than
individual attempts to commercialize local innovation
Appications sampler
– Course management (CHEF, Michigan)– Content management (CUCMS, Columbia)– Workflow (EDEN, Indiana)– Personal information (Chandler, OSAF)– Portal (uPortal, JA-SIG)– Identity management (CAS, Yale)
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Institutional Collaboration
SAKAI Model
– More examples of collaboration in US than Canada– Networking a possible exception– UBC and UCB
Actively discussing joint projects
Canadian Collaboration
– McGill and UBC appear to have similar vision– Focusing on end-user (productivity, effectiveness,
service)– Opportunity to explore common needs and
collaboration possibilities