This presentation covers the key steps and decisions that need to be taken in order to implement Kuali Student Release 1.1. It should be of interest to project managers and technical analysts who need to understand the mechanics of an implementation project. The topics include: * The functional scope of R1.1 * Data conversation from legacy systems * Technical deployment topologies: Rice infrastructure and database options * Configuration options * Managing the configuration project * Documentation * Bug fixes and enhancements

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next generation student system

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Implementing Kuali Student
Objective : you should be able to list the items
that need to be in an implementation project plan
• Leo Fernig: 15 minute overview of implementation
• Kamal Muthuswamy: 15 minute over view of configuration
• Jeff Caddel: 15 minute overview of deployment

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Documentation
• Everything covered :
– Implementation guide
– Configuration guide
– Developer guide
On December 15 documentation will be ready to download:

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Key implementation topics
1. Functional design issues
2. Technical design issues
3. Kuali Student resources that are available for
implementation teams

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Functional design and decision points
Functional decision points
• Decide on the scope of the implementation
• Decide which business processes need to be
implemented
• Decide on integration pattern with legacy
systems

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Scope of an implementation project
Scope of the data footprint
– Course
• Credit courses
• Non-credit courses
– Program
– Other
Scope of the business footprint
– Are you going to introduce new business processes
– Are you going to pilot for selected schools
Technical footprint
– Small: ks-embedded
– Large: rolling our Rice as an EA building block

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Analyse curriculum workflow
Workflow
• Centralized (all forms go to a central office for entry)
• Heterogeneous (mixed distributed and centralized)
• Distributed (proposals are entered at the source)
• Workflow configuration
– Pre-configured
– Dynamic

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Deployment options
Options
• Option 1: ks-embedded
• Option 2: ks-standalone
Option 1 Option 2
RICE
Identity (KIM)
Workflow (KEW)
Kuali
Student
Kuali
Student
RICE
Identity (KIM)
Workflow (KEW)

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Data integration strategies
One way or two way ?
1. Integration at the business service layer. Preferred!
2. Integration at the LU service layer
3. Db to Db
Legacy
System
KSLU
Learning Unit
Credit Course

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Data Conversion
Data conversion
1. Data mapping
Map legacy elements to KS credit course
2. Create dynamic attributes
Add additional data elements needed
3. Dictionary constraints
Change/relax constraints in xml dictionary files
4. Extract and load programs
Modify/re-use existing code developed at UBC/UCB

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Resources available during implementation
• Formal documentation:
– Implementation guide
– Configuration guide
– Developer guide
– Available at: http://kuali.org/ks/releases on December 15
• KS wiki
• Service contracts
• Database ER diagrams
• Community: Implementer User group (IUG)
• Join ks.collab@kuali.org, rice.collab@kuali.org

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Preparing for Configuration
• Bring KS instance up and running standalone
• Document configuration requirements
• Setup the environment (Dev, Test…)
• Set up local configuration project
• Join ks.collab@kuali.org, rice.collab@kuali.org
• Review KS Install/Config Guides.
– Don’t forget the developer guide

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KS Configuration Options
• Configuration option available at multiple level
• Configuring UI
– Style, themes, logos, messages
– Adding/dropping fields
– Sections, layouts
• Configuring Data
– Spring bean based XML data dictionaries
– Constraints that are used by services and UI
– Dynamic Attributes
• Configure Search/Lookups

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KS UI

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KS Configuration Options (more)
• Authorization (KIM – Rice)
• Workflow (KEW - Rice)
– Document Type
• Organization Management
• Rules (e.g. PreReqs, CoReqs etc)

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KS Configuration Project
• Separate Project
• All the configuration artifacts (XML, Java,
Properties) goes in it
• Safe from KS Upgrades
• Can clone ks-web/ks-embedded as a starting
point

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Configuration Tools
• KS Admin Client to manage
– Messages, Academic Time Period, Enumerations

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Skill Set Required
• What skill set is required for configuration
– Depends on the configuration
– Configuration guide documents ‘Level of
Complexity’
– Most configuration is XML file editing
– For UI certain amount of Java and preferably GWT
knowledge required

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KS Build & Deploy: Summary
• Institution agnostic
• Cloud oriented
– Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
– Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Maven centric
– Build from source with “mvn install”

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KS Build & Deploy : Cloud Resources
• https://test.kuali.org/svn/student/tags
• EC2
– http://ci.ks.kuali.org – Hudson
– http://nexus.kuali.org – Nexus Repository Manager
– http://dev.ks.kuali.org – Linux + Tomcat + Oracle
• S3
– http://maven.kuali.org – S3 “bucket”
– 99.999999999% durability
– 99.99% up time
– http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/maven.kuali.org
– Commodity pricing - $0.15 per gigabyte

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KS Build & Deploy

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Kuali Nexus
– http://nexus.kuali.org
– Single source artifact acquisition
• Plugins, snapshots, releases
• Everything needed to build Kuali software
– High availability - 99.99% uptime
– Load Balanced, distributed

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Maven + Nexus

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Build & Deploy : Future

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Questions