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In May 2007 I was appointed Associate Vice-President for Enterprise Software, where I lead an organization of 133 developers and managers that are responsible for the acquisition, design, development and implementation of the institution's major academic and business systems, for data warehousing and decision support services, the enterprise service delivery portal and the attendant enterprise application integration, including process workflow.
IU has vended, homegrown and collaboratively developed software in its portfolio, but is increasingly looking towards open/community source for its application solutions. This position is not based on ideology, but rather on service level responsiveness and a desire to have more control of our own destiny. Accordingly, IU has implemented the Sakai learning management software, JA-SIG CAS for our single signon solution and is in the process of implementing the Kuali Financial Systems software, with plans to follow that with the Kuali Coeus research administration software. IU staff have been and/or are active developers in Sakai, CAS and of course several Kuali initiatives. Among the most recent efforts was to co-found (with Cornell University) the Kuali Rice initiative to develop a suite of open source middleware for application integration In 2003, I co-founded what is now the Kuali movement that is creating application software to serve the financial, research and student services functions in higher education and did the bulk of the work of recruiting and engaging the investing partners for the Financial and Research initiatives and was one of the charter members of the Kuali Foundation Board of Directors;
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