Long, Long Ago in 2001
When Sungard SCTHigher Education, then Campus Pipeline, chose to adopt uPortal 2.0 into its Luminis product offering Luminis' existing UI was very rigid in that it provided no customization to end users of the portal and only minimal customizations for the institution. uPortal was chosen to provide a much more flexible offering as far as end user UI customization was concerned. However, there was one major issue that had to be addressed. Institutions would certainly not allow going from no end user customization to complete customization by end users. Institutions should have the ability to determine how rigid or how flexible the policy should be for end user customizations.
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