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A Connected Learning Community

• Name
• Title

Group Microsoft Corporation
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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Share,
integrate, and automate information flow within
the educational environment. NameTitle
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Agenda

• The school environment and common integration
  scenarios
• Define EAI
• Case studies increasing school responsiveness by
  improving enterprise application integration
• The Microsoft enterprise application integration
  solution explored
• Resources

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The Ideal Environment
Connected
Integrated
Empowered
IT that supports the success of teaching and
learning withinthe educational community
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The Reality (If youre lucky)
Student Information Systems
Human Resource
Food Services
Accounting
Transportation
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School Imperatives
To build and maintain value, a school or
educational institution needs a solution that is

• Proven
• Flexible
• Quick to generate benefits
• Empowering to faculty and staff

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Key Primary and Secondary School Needs

• Increase each schools accountability through
  easy and immediate access to data
• Track each schools progress toward compliance
  with state and federal academic standards
• Significantly decrease time spent generating
  reports
• Lower administrative costs
• Improve staff, teacher and student productivity
• Streamline information sharing between disparate
  school systems
• Ensure secure data exchange

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Key Higher Education Needs

• Develop an enterprise portal and e-services for
  faculty, staff and students
• Improve staff, faculty and student productivity
• Lower administrative costs
• Improve decision support processes through better
  access to relevant data
• Streamline information sharing between disparate
  school systems
• Prevent overspending on infrastructure technology
  initiatives
• Ensure secure data exchange

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What Is Enterprise Application Integration?
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offers
comprehensive capabilities for integrating
applications and data resources both within and
between educational organizations for efficient
productivity and accountability.
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Enterprise Application Integration Increases
Agility

• Control costs, resource requirements and
  complexity of integration projects
• Maximize value of existing technology investments

Proven Quality

• Improve ability for you to
• Automate Processes
• Integrate Information Sharing

Immediate Value

• Automate complex education processes easily
• Manage and monitor school processes
• Improve integration with faculty, students,
  parents and staff

Flexibility

• Capitalize on existing skill sets
• Minimize learning curve for new solutions

Maximize Productivity
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Maximizing Technology Value
Integrate with virtually any application or
technology Systems must talk to each
other Heterogeneous systems Legacy applications
Isolated islands of data Incompatible data
formats
Proven Quality
Immediate Value
Flexibility
Maximize Productivity
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Case StudyOcoee Middle School

• Situation
• The Ocoee administration and faculty had a vision
  for their school
• Easy access to technology
• Student email
• A home-school connection for parents
• Electronic student portfolios
• Solution
• Deploy a Zone Integration Server for all
  communications between servers
• Allow the easy exchange of information by
  implementing the Schools Interoperability
  Framework Standard
• Utilize the complete Chancery Student Management
  Solution

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Results

• Data can now be shared seamlessly between
  departments
• Processes that were duplicated are now completed
  in one step
• With the entire school on the Windows 2000
  Platform, students and teachers always have the
  information they need at their fingertips

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Immediate Value

• SIF Compatible
• Lowering Costs Through Integration
• Improved Information Sharing Across All
  Applications and Platforms

Proven Quality
Immediate Value
Flexibility
Maximize Productivity
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Demonstration

• EAI

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Case StudyBallston Spa Central School District

• Situation
• The district is connected by a Wide Area Network
  (WAN) but data is not easily accessible
• Information is isolated within schools, buildings
  and databases, and is often inaccurate
• Disparate software packages are unable to share
  information
• Solution
• Implement the Schools Interoperability Framework
  so data can be shared seamlessly and used
  universally
• Deploy a Zone Integration Server (ZIS), a central
  clearing house for all SIF communications
• Utilizes of Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  format

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Results

• Data is now accessible, and because it is entered
  once, it is much more accurate
• Creating reports is simplified because separate
  systems are able to share data
• Interoperability is no longer a problem, allowing
  schools to use the best solutions available

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Quote

• A major part of my job is to gather information
  for state and local reporting to help us get
  funding and assess the needs of the district. As
  recently as five years ago, we were collecting
  much of this data by pencil and paper. Using SIF
  improves the efficiency and the accuracy of my
  reporting enormously.
• For example, now when a student is entered into
  any application student information or
  transportation that information is accessible
  to everyone.
• -Dr. Helen Stuetzel, Director of Instruction,
  Ballston Spa

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Flexibility

• Standards-based
• Supports SIF, EDI, XML, SOAP
• Ensures flexibility, interoperability with any
  member of the educational community
• Guaranteed once only delivery of documents
• Comprehensive document tracking and logging
• Failover clustering support
• Secure document exchange
• Support latest security features

Proven Quality
Immediate Value
Flexibility
Maximize Productivity
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Case StudyRamsey Elementary School

• Situation
• Databases within the school cannot share
  information
• Incompatible systems require inputting student
  data multiple times
• Solution
• Streamline sharing of information by implementing
  the Schools Interoperability Framework
• Deploy a Zone Integration Server (ZIS), a central
  clearing house for all SIF communications

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Results

• Information can now easily be shared between
  separate databases
• School and district data can be changed in one
  step instead of many, saving time and resources
• Ramsey Elementary can now choose the best
  software and hardware available for each
  educational function

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Quote

• Now that we have this interconnectedness at the
  building level, the framework will allow us to
  take the next step and connect with our community
  . Our community is parents but also the business
  community and the county government, too. We
  need to build on these relationships and connect
  our community with our school.
• -Stan Peichel, Principal, Ramsey Elementary
  School

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Maximize Productivity

• IT staff
• Foster more collaborative environment between IT
  and staff
• Leverage existing skills
• School staff
• Simplify tasks
• Speed decision-making
• Enable more effective access to current
  information

Proven Quality
Time to Benefit
Flexibility
Maximize Productivity
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Solution BenefitsPrimary and SecondaryHigher
Education

• Enable Improved Information Access and
  Information Sharing
• Easily Integrate Applications
• Rapidly Automate Organization Processes

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BizTalk Server as an EAI PlatformScalable,
reliable internal integration backbone
Lower cost of application integration
Reduced costs
BizTalk Server
Better integration through unified data
Greater efficiency through real-time data access
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Comprehensive Toolset

• BizTalk Editor

• Define Your Schools Documents

• BizTalk Mapper

• Transform Your Schools Documents

• BizTalk Messaging Manager

• Build Trading Partner Relationships

• BizTalk Orchestration Designer

• Orchestrate your Schools Processes

• BizTalk Document Tracking

• Learn from your data

• Manage the System

• BizTalk Admin Console

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EAI Built on Microsoft .NET Servers The Best
Integration Platform

• Easily accessible skills
• 6 million Microsoft developers worldwide
• 900,000 Microsoft trained professionals
• 7 of top 10 SIs and regional services partners
• Low cost training widely available
• Thousands of CTEC training centers
• Hundreds of books, courses, users groups
• Complementary products and tools
• Dozens of ISPs and ASPs
• Hundreds of compatible ISV applications

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Summary of Key Microsoft Education EAI Solution
Benefits

• Enable Improved Information Access and Sharing
• Easily Integrate Applications
• Rapidly Automate Organization Processes

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Roadmap to EAI

• Learn about BizTalk Server on http//www.microsoft
  .com/biztalk/
• Download BizTalk Server Evaluation Edition
• Do a short pilot project (1-2 weeks)
• Consider end-to-end integration scenarios
  (including internal and external applications)
• Include multiple business document formats (XML,
  flat files, EDI files, etc.)
• Benchmark performance throughput if important
• Consider deployment and maintenance implications
• Participate directly in all integration work
• Best way to fairly compare products and minimize
  your substantial risk

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Supported Business Applications
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Resources
For Training and Certification Questions Microsof
t Training Certification http//www.microsoft.co
m/trainingandservices/default.asp
To Locate a Partner Who Works With Microsoft
Integration Solutions Microsoft Certified
Providers Directory http//mcspreferral.microsoft.
com
For Technical Information About Microsoft
Integration Solutions Technical Resources for
BizTalk Server http//www.microsoft.com/biztalk/te
chinfo/default.asp Many TechNet Courses Are
Available, Including Course 2379 Developing and
Deploying Microsoft Biztalk Server 2000
Solutions Course 2420 Designing B2B Trading
Partner Integration Solutions
For Information on Integrated Applications BizTa
lk Server Web Site http//www.microsoft.com/biztal
k