Studentnet® Cloudburst
28 September 2015
Studentnet has been working hard enhancing the value of Cloudwork by
integrating with more of the software that you use in your school. New
innovative software apps are being actively developed and deployed within
schools every week. Often these apps are filling a new need being generated by
a multitude of pressures on schools such:
- Greater demands from parents for more information and involvement
- A rapidly changing compliance and governance environment
- New technical opportunities being made available due to ubiquitous
mobile devices and now the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Always on, 24x7 service delivery
Often these new apps do not fit comfortably into the existing identity and
directory configurations established in traditional local network
architectures. For instance many new services are oriented to mobile devices
and want to use new mobile device oriented authentication protocols such as
OAuth2 and
OpenID Connect neither of which are supported in a standard
traditional local network directory configuration.
Studentnet is committed to keeping Cloudwork up to date to the highest level of
integration possible with these new and innovative applications. In this month's
edition of Cloudburst we are summarising some recent successes working with the
exciting new breed of innovative application developers.
Synergetic & Schoolbox Account Integration
Synergetic and Schoolbox already achieve a high level of account integration
working directly together. Cloudwork enhances that integration by being able to
directly extract account information out of Synergetic into the Cloudwork
Identity Manager (CwIM) so eliminating the need for cumbersome CSV file
extractions. In addition our CwIM provides authentication services to Schoolbox
ensuring completely smooth identity management/authentication between all three
products. This set up is particularly useful for parent accounts as there is
now no need for the parent accounts to ever be stored in the school's on
network directory service.
Elcom Integrated Authentication
Studentnet is proud to announce our first production deployment of integrated
authentication services for Elcom. This facility has now moved out of beta
testing. It is now fully deployed and working in production at our first
school. Studentnet has worked closely with both Elcom and the initial school to
establish a custom release that fully supports integrated authentication and
credential management.
Complispace
Studentnet fully supports Complispace's integrated automatic account
provisioning and maintenance features by fully exploiting Complispace's rich
SAML assertion format. The additional identity information packed into this
format ensures fully automated account provisioning and maintenance between
Cloudwork and Complispace. This identity information rich
SAML assertion format
is not supported in standard directory federated services.
Canvas Integration: Account & Course Provisioning
Studentnet is proud to announce that our initial implementation of course and
account provisioning in Cloudwork is now close to completion. The feature is
about to enter our internal alpha-test phase. We are seeking schools to act as
beta testers from within our community of active Canvas users.
SEQTA
A significant milestone has been reached with our support for SEQTA: we have
now completed the first test deployment of SEQTA into our Cloudlab test
environment. Our initial tests of integrated authentication have been completed
in conjunction with the SEQTA development team with whom Studentnet has worked
closely. Both teams are now exploring further levels of integration that can be
achieved between the two products.
Welcome Sentral, Verso App, Busminder, Edval, MyEDiary and Rubicon Atlas
Every week schools are asking Studentnet to establish new working relationships
with applications that are important to their environments. Studentnet welcomes
exploring new ways that we can increase identity integration with every new
developer to whom we are introduced. In particular we offer developers:
- free access to deep technical expertise, and
- free provision of a test Identity Provider (IdP) service within which they
can thoroughly test their newly developed authentication and provisioning
features.
This month Studentnet has been introduced or commenced working with Sentral,
Verso App, Busminder, Edval, MyEDiary and Rubicon Atlas. For a complete list of
services that you can integrate into your school's operation please visit our
Services page.
Got a new app that you want integrated with your school? Contact Studentnet to
introduce us to the application or developer and we'll get the ball rolling!
Best Regards
The Studentnet Team
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