Business Case for Kuali Rice 2010

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The Business Case for Kuali Rice - 2010

Your Presenters
• Tony DiSanza – Innovativ Consulting Partners
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Presentation Purpose
“Doing more with less” has been in our lexicon
for several decades. Higher Education is
impacted in a very real way. Declining funding
from states/donors, endowments and increasing
costs have forced Universities to look at all
avenues to manage Institutional budgets.
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EDUCAUSE Current Issues
All Institutions- Strategic Importance
Strategic Importance
response % rank
Funding IT 55.8% 1
Administrative / ERP / information systems 39.8% 2
Security 33.9% 3
Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure 26.5% 4
Teaching and learning with technology 26.3% 5
Identity / access management 23.4% 6
Governance, organization, and leadership for IT 22.6% 7
Disaster recovery / business continuity 22.3% 8
Agility/adaptibility/responsiveness 19.0% 9
Learning management systems 18.2% 10
Source 2009 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey Results
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Single Most Important Issue Facing My University is…
Source: Campus Computing Survey 2008
All
Institutions
Public
Universities
Private
Universities
Public 4-yr
Colleges
Private 4-yr
Colleges
Community
Colleges
Network &
Data Security
(20.3%)
Hiring /
Retaining IT
Staff (29.3%)
Network &
Data Security
(29.9%)
Network &
Data Security
(21.7%)
Network &
Data Security
(19.8%)
Network &
Data Security
(21.3%)
Hiring /
Retaining IT
Staff (16.7%)
Upgrade /
Replace ERP
(17.3%)
Upgrade /
Replace ERP
(15.9%)
Hiring /
Retaining IT
Staff (17.0%)
Hiring /
Retaining IT
Staff and
Instructional
Integration
(tie 13.0 %)
Hiring /
Retaining IT
Staff (16.4%)
Instructional
Integration
(11.9%)
Instructional
Integration
(13.3%)
Instructional
Integration
(13.6%)
Distance Ed /
User Support
/ Instruction
(tie 10.4 %)
User Support
(11.4%)
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How can Kuali software address these
issues?
• Entry point for software - $0
• Industry-standard skills – thus
avoiding niche specialization
• Maintenance Costs reduced -
Zero fees, easier upgrades
• Peer Support - built by higher
education, for higher education
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How has Kuali Rice been used?
Sample of Kuali Rice applications that have been built:
Extending ERP Systems:
• Timekeeping system
• HR hire, terminate
• HR pay raise, additional pay
• Travel pre-travel authorizations
• Travel reimbursements, etc.
• Add/Drop Course
• Faculty Annual Reporting
• Schedule of Classes
• Grade Change
• Safeword Card Request
Custom-built systems:
• Travel systems
• Traffic Systems
• Inventory Control Workflow
• Motor Pool request
• College Request for Absence
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Rice Components
KNS - Kuali Nervous System
KSB - Kuali Service Bus
KEW - Kuali Enterprise
Workflow
KEN - Kuali Enterprise
Notification
KIM - Kuali Identity
Management
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Rice Ingredients
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What is the Business Value for the Kuali Rice
Suite?
• Development Ease of Use - quick
references and lookups, templates
and scaffolds, auto code generation
• Ease of Implementation – standard
configuration files, global
parameters, parsers and ingesters,
wrappers and API integrations
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Suite?
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• Modularity – loosely
coupled components,
reusability, swap ability
• Industry Standards –
leverage Java standards,
tools and conventions

• KEW – Kuali Enterprise
Workflow
 Quick development and
automation of manual paper-
based business processes
 Easy integration with existing
legacy ERP systems and other
Kuali software
 Improve Business Processes
components?
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KIM – Kuali Identity
Management
 Supports easy
integration with existing
IdM authentication
infrastructures
 Full featured
authorization services
(principles, groups,
permissions, roles, etc.)
components?
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• KNS – Kuali Nervous
System
– Rapid application
development framework
– Works in conjunction with
other standard Java open
source frameworks and tools
(i.e. Spring, Struts, Eclipse,
etc.)
components?
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• KSB – Kuali Service Bus
 Lightweight and easy to use service bus
 Works in conjunction with other standard open source
service and web application servers (i.e. Apache Tomcat,
Apache CXF, etc.)
components?
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Rice Licensing
Educational Community License, version 2.0
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
http://www.osedu.org/licenses/
The Educational Community License version 2.0 ("ECL") consists
of the Apache 2.0 license, modified to change the scope of the
patent grant in section 3 to be specific to the needs of the
education communities using this license.
The original Apache 2.0 license can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 “grants to You a
perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free,
irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to
make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise
transfer the Work”
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Who’s Using Rice?
Custom Application Deployments:
Kuali Members Non-Kuali
Cornell University University of Connecticut
Indiana University Illinois State University
University of California – Davis The Ohio State University
University of Hawaii University of Illinois
University of California – San Diego Fractured Atlas
University of Southern California College of Rio Grande /
Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences
Saginaw Valley State
San Francisco State
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How is Rice Being Used?
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• Proof of Concepts:
– Enterprise Workflow
– Identity Management
• Re-Platforming a
commercial HCM &
Financials solution
• Custom Applications to
initiate adoption of SOA
Principles
• Business Process
Modeling

How is Rice Being Used?
Simplify!
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Rice Workflow for your HRMS system
An Alternative to upgrading to a commercial HRMS system
Indiana University uses Rice for
PeopleSoft integration with a
processing load of more than 5,000
workflows routed per day, more
than 15,000 actions taken per day
and have between 1,200 – 2,000
concurrent users at any given time.
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Kuali Rice at one University:
Custom Developed Travel Solution:
Why KEW?
• Lightweight
• Fully functional and configurable
• SOAP compliant
• Community Source
• Completely Embeddable
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The eTravel App
•Java app, using Java Server Faces
•Web Services Integration to PS Financials
•Pull vendors, chartfield, people
•Interactive GL combo edit
•Push payments
•Web Services integration to KEW
•User security stored in PS
Kuali Rice at one University:
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Kuali Rice Example - KEW
Client Browser
Apache/Tomcat
OSU Travel
App
Kuali RICE
(KEW)
Shibbloleth
Rice DB & Travel DB
SMTP
1. Initiate Travel Request
2. Approve Travel Request
3. Inquire Travel Request
Authentication
Send (workflow) email
Workflow Data
& Travel Application Data
PeopleSoft
PS App Server
PS Web Server
PS DB
Client Browser
1. Travel Reimbursement PREP
2. Inquire approved Travel Request
CXF Web
ServicesSOAP
Run SQL’s in PeopleSoft DB
Autosys Batch
JVM
Component Interface
SQL
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eTravel System

What are Rice Benchmarks?
Type
• Training
• Deployments
– Workflow
– Identity Management
• Support
Cost / Time
• 3-6 months +
• Depends upon complexity
– Several weeks
– Several months
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Why Not use Rice?
• Several arguments:
– Concerned about time to learn the
product
– Concern about time to deploy
– My School uses x for ERP
– My institution is Microsoft/IBM/etc
centric
– My organization has outsourced the
operations of its applications
– I’ll wait until the product is mature
– FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)
– Can Rice be used as an enterprise
solution?
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Alternatives to Rice
Commercial
Middleware Solutions:
•Oracle – Fusion
•Microsoft - Biztalk
•IBM – Websphere,
Tibco
And more
Identity Management:
•Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Novell,
etc
Workflow:
•Embedded in ECM, applications,
portals
•Embedded in documentation
management and imaging
systems
•BPEL engines in Oracle, IBM,
etc.
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Total Cost of Ownership?
Source: http://www.netc.org/openoptions/pros_cons/tco.html
The Kuali community has dramatically rallied to reduce
implementation and support costs!
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Commercial Software Costs
Software Creator Edition
Release
Date
Cost (USD)
Open
source
Software
license
BizTalk Server Microsoft 2006 2006 $34,999 per processor[2] No proprietary
Oracle BPEL Process
Manager[4]
Oracle Corporation
10.1.2.0.
2
23-Jan-06
$50,000 per processor[5]
No proprietary
Oracle Enterprise
Service Bus[4] Oracle Corporation 10.1.3.1 ?
$10,550[6]
No proprietary
Sun Java Composite
Application Platform
Suite
Sun Microsystems 6 Jun-08
$100 per employee per year
subscription, perpetual per
socket licensing available[8] No[9]
proprietary
WebSphere
Enterprise Service
Bus
IBM 6.1.2.0 21-Dec-07
$250 per Value Unit[10]
No proprietary
WebSphere Message
Broker
IBM 6.1.0.2 19-Dec-07
$85,000 enterprise edition,
$25,000 starter edition (up
to ten message flows),
$15,000 remote adapter
hosting edition
No proprietary
WebSphere Process
Server
IBM 6.1.2.0 Dec-07
850 per Value Unit[10]
No proprietary
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_business_integration_software
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Will Rice cure what ails you?
• Rice is maturing and growing
• Encouraging Community participation and
adoption
• Many interested parties looking for
alternatives
• Support alternatives
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ENTRY POINTS
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Trial Project #1 – Proof of Concept
• Several alternatives
– Custom Application on Rice
– New GUI for legacy application
– Demonstrate Enterprise workflow
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Trial Project #2 – Infrastructure Coexistence
• Rice is delivered supporting
– MySql, Oracle RDBMS
– Centos, Redhat Linux
• Other desired support
– Websphere, DB2, etc
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Kuali Rice Deployment Planning
PLAN EARLY
• Focus on a particular
workload(s) such Kuali
Enterprise Workflow (KEW) or
Kuali Identity Management
(KIM)
• Develop a deployment plan
customized to your unique
environment
WHAT AM I ENTITLED TO?
1, 3, 5 , 10 or 15 days of
planning services delivered
by an experienced Kuali
consultant and Kuali
commercial affiliate.
Gain best practices from an
experienced Kuali
consultant!
Perfect if you want to:
• Perform Kuali
Prototyping
• Develop Kuali Custom
Applications
Our Team – part of the Rice
Development team!
Learn more:
www.innovativcp.com/areyouready
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Engagement Day Details
Kuali Rice Deployment Planning
Days Details
1 Includes a Strategy Briefing Session (SBS) and an overview of Kuali Rice features and solution areas,
plus a review of your environment, pain points and requirements. Together, we will design a high-
level solution based on your business needs and further gain knowledge on how best to deploy
Kuali in your environment.
3 Includes an Architecture Design Session (ADS), participants dive deeper into their requirements
and design a Kuali Rice solution tailored to their environment. Conceptual design, logical and
physical architectures are created for the solution. (in addition to the Strategy Briefing Session).
5 Designed to provide deep guidance on specific Kuali Rice solution capabilities that provide value
within your environment. Includes a virtual lab session for hands-on understanding of the solution
technologies and capabilities, 2 days of deployment planning and assistance with creating a plan
and best practices for deployment. (in addition to the Strategy Briefing and Architecture Design
Session)
10 & 15 Both the 10 and 15 day engagement includes a 3-day ADS to understand your scenarios and
introduce technologies, solutions, and concepts; plus 2 days of deployment planning for a specific
Kuali Rice capability. This is followed by a 5 or 10-day Proof of Concept (POC) project to
demonstrate the solution at a customer environment. (in addition to the Strategy Briefing Session)
Learn more: www.innovativcp.com/areyouready
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Install &
Setup Kuali
Rice
•ANT
•Maven
•Subversion
•Eclipse
•Java
•MySQL or Oracle
•.properties
Kuali Rice
Testing
•eCobertura
•Junit
•Naming
Conventions
Rice
Application
Support
•XML
•OJB
•JPA
•JSP
•Servlet
•Build.xml
Rice
Version
Upgrade
•Struts
•Spring
•Pom.xml
•Version upgrading
•Regression
acceptance of sample
application
Rice
Application
Development
•Groovy
•Core Rice
•KNS
•KEW
•KSB
•KEW
•KIM
To Proceed to the next level of experience with
Kuali, students must demonstrate capabilities
in three core dimensions :
Development Tools
Specific Technologies
Configuration tasks
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How to get started
Download : Rice 1.0.3, Kuali Financials 3.0, Kuali Coeus 1.1
http://kuali.org/download-form
Tools that Innovativ can provide:
•Innovativ’s Instant Rice - Fully configured Virtual Machine to download
•Virtual environment – if you don’t have the hardware
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• Kuali Website
• Kuali Rice Site
• Kuali Rice Documentation
• Kuali Resource Guide
• Building the Business Case for
Kuali
Want to learn more about Kuali ?
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References
Campus Computing 2008
The 19th National Survey of Computing and
Information Technology in American Higher Education
Informationweek, 'Free' software makes economic sense
By Thomas Claburn, January 17, 2007
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jht
ml;jsessionid=WQOEL4JETN4B3QE1GHRSKH4ATMY32J
VN?articleID=196901596
Is There Such a Thing as Free Software? The Pros and
Cons of Open-Source Software
By Thomas J. Trappler, 2009
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAU
SEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/IsThereSuchaThingasFreeSoft
war/174575
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New
Systematic SOA Application Projects
19 December 2008 Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Daniel Sholler
Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00163409
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol3/arti
cle6/article6.html
MySQL TCO Calculator
http://www.mysql.com/tcosavings/
Security: An Apples-To-Open Comparison?
By Serdar Yegulalp, Sep 9, 2009
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/0
9/security_an_app.html;jsessionid=31UYFVGGIRD1LQE1
GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Kuali Foundation
http://www.kuali.org
Kuali Rice
http://rice.kuali.org/
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Q & A
Innovativ Consulting Partners
Tony DiSanza - Managing Director
Tony@InnovativCP.com
800-787-1889 x 102
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