Online samenwerken met Liferay Social Office en SURFconext

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SURFconext Usecases - Online Collaboration with Liferay Social Office and SURFconext - 9 April 2014, Utrecht

SURFconext Usecases

Frans WardSURFnet, Collaboration, Infrastructure and ServicesUtrecht, 9 April 2014

Online Collaboration with Liferay Social Office and SURFconext

SURFnet is the Dutch National Research & Education Network (NREN) - Innovative ICT platforms & services - Development and exploitation of the

network for Dutch Higher Education and Research

- Over 14,000 km dark fiber

!By and for the Dutch Higher Education and Research community

- 180+ connected organisations, serving 1 million users

- Task organisation of SURF = ICT collaboration of higher education & research

- Not for profit, 86 employees - In business since 1988

About SURFnet

http://flickriver.com/photos/25228175@N08/

Dutch Academic and Research Landscape• 14 Research Universities (250k students) • 42 Universities of applied sciences (425k students) • 8 University hospitals and tertiary medical teaching

hospitals (STZs) • Research institutes and comparable institutions

(NWO, KNAW, TNO, Novay) • Company R&D departments • National Library of the Netherlands • Other institutions financed by the Dutch Ministry of

Education, Culture and Science (OCW)

180+ connected organisations, serving 1 million users {

Shared Professional and Educational ServicesScientific Computing &

Storage

Commercial ICT Products & Services

National Research & Education Network

ICT & Education policy making

Under the SURF umbrella

The Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

State of the art Network infrastructure

State of the art Collaboration Infrastructure

It started with a vision….

Challenges

How to connect users and teams…. from different organisations

Challenges

How to connect services…. from different service providers

…and trends

Increase of available online tools !Tools evolve quickly !Users become more demanding

From users to choosers

The challenge of Consumer Choice

Let users choose between multiple cloud vendors and

cloud services.

The multi vendor approach.

Multi vendor approach = NOT this…

Multi vendor approach. BUT this…

Cloud Services Brokerage

Provide added value by means of an

infrastructure, which interconnects cloud services and users

"A cloud services brokerage is a business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (generally public or hybrid, but possibly private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of those services." Gartner

SURFconext Fundaments

1. Federated Identity (SAML2)

2. Central Group Management (SURFteams)

3. Lightweight Integration OpenSocial APIs

The solution!

(from an NREN’s standpoint)

From mix and match of loose tools…

…to a collaboration environment

SURFconext animation

SURFconext Collaboration environment

Service Providers (SPs) Identity Providers (IdPs)

SURFconext Business Agreements

Technical Framework

WAYF: Where Are You From

SURFconext tools: Institution (IdP)

dashboard.surfconext.nl

SURFconext tools: Developer

profile.surfconext.nl

api.surfconext.nl

SURFconext tools: User

showroom.surfconext.nl

cloudstore.surfspot.nl

Central Group Management: SURFteams

teams.surfconext.nl

Selection of Identity Providers (150 IdPs)

Selection of Service Providers (400 SPs)

Demo LifeRay Social Office

Team Admin!!• Team Owner = Site

Owner!• Can create sites!• Can add site members!• Can add all site content!• Can participate on Team

Team Manager!!• Can add content on

Team Site!• Can participate on

Team site

Team Member!!• Can read content on

Team Site!• Can participate on

Team site

NON Team Member, (could be LifeRay user)!!Can NOT read content on Team Site!Default: All Social Office sites are PRIVATE

Options: !- Open!- Public Restricted!- Private Restricted!- Private

Benefits for users, institutions & service providers

Advantages for your users ✓ Safe and easy access using the institution's account ✓ Limitless collaboration with colleagues or fellow-students ✓ Central management of groups via SURFteams

!Advantages for institutions ✓ With SURFconext instantly access for your users to 100+ services ✓ Safe and controlled use of cloud solutions in their own environment ✓ Easy integration of services thanks to open standards ✓ Easy sharing of services with other institutions

!Advantages for Service Providers ✓ One SURFconext connection instantly get access to 1.000.000 potential users ✓ Less privacy risks due to Attribute Release Policy ✓ No user administration: this is done entirely by the institutions ✓ Less user support: no questions about lost passwords

SURFconext / OpenConext History

Collaboration made easy

✓ OpenConext Provides the glue and lubrication middleware to make campus, cloud based services and resources usable for collaboration

✓ OpenConext offers the Identity and Group Infrastructure

✓ OpenConext offers the platform software for large, virtual collaboration-type collaboration to run-you-own

OpenConext allows you to create your own collaboration environment that organizes your (online) applications, services and resources

Open & public from the start...

(regarding an open source innovation project...)

https://github.com/openconext

https://github.com/openconextapps

OpenConext in 3 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUpn568NSl0

Directions and Q&A

Thanks

for yo

attenti

SURFconext

SURFnet

OpenConext

SURFconext.nl Algemene informatie SURFconext

overzicht clouddiensten

Get Connexted Wiki - wiki.surfnetlabs.nl Technische informatie SURFconext

Aansluiten IDP’s en SP’s

Support Wiki Support informatie voor eindgebruikers

Hoe werkt SSO & teams etc.

SURFmarket.nl Overzicht clouddiensten

aansluiten clouddiensten (contract en licenties)

SURFnet.nl SURFconext dienst en innovatie beschrijving

Blog.surfnet.nl Innovatie blog SURFconext

Frans.Ward@surfnet.nl

For a sustainable future...