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Newcastle University has been using Shibboleth to do authentication for quite a whileseveral years.
Use Grouper for authorizaiton decisions.
All hierarchy information is in Grouper. Then expose that for authorization.
Problems were incovered uncovered in the Newcastle data architecture
Too many arrows
So needed needed a project to tie this together
Want to move to a system with core institutional system,
Goal is to Goal: improve data flow into end applications
So this uncovered : 1st need a proper tool : decided to use extract/?
Tools
Open source solutions
Two products:
One called ?
Anoterh called?
What you really need for these transformation tools is ?
Need to understand files
Take all the data and make sense of it.
If you want to do things based on modules, you find out all done w code
Need a tool that can take that take module code and need to Make snese make sense of all core institutional data
The other thing is when you build systems like this they arenot
just useful for Access Mangemetn
Also useful for personalization
Means you can target info for people
Repeaset
Head po
Talend
They put a front end on manipulating data and allow you to automate
Jean Marie: they are using Talend. They are doing a good job.Suggestion to look into Talend: http://www.talend.com/index.php