Oracle launches new model for higher education customers

A new architecture for higher education applications

Oracle has launched a new Continuous Delivery Model, under which the company plans to deliver periodic application Feature Packs for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions. Feature Packs are designed to enable institutions to access and implement new functionality to meet immediate needs, while migrating gradually to the infrastructure to leverage newer technologies.

With the new offering, Oracle expects to enable higher education institutions to move away from reliance on disruptive upgrades for their student information systems and create a new cycle with Feature Packs. The first of these Feature Packs, the company’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions 9.0 Feature Pack 1, is available now. The first Feature Pack is expected to deliver constituent data management improvements for both technology and business users.

Curtiss Barnes, vice president of industry strategy at Oracle Higher Education, said: We also believe it is time to start delivering a next-generation architecture for higher education applications - protecting our customers' current investments while also providing a path forward that lets them build and use common services to optimise their IT infrastructures. That is why we included SOA-based features such as the Constituent Web Service to help them integrate data and improve efficiency.

The first Feature Pack’s new Constituent Web Service is said to leverage the interoperability and reusability of web services to support the integration of constituent data between PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions and other systems in an institution’s IT environment, from housing and parking systems to identity management tools.

According to the company, the Campus Solutions 9.0 Feature Pack 1 also includes a new affiliations feature, which allows institutions to define and create affiliations to represent the changing roles that constituents have as they move through an institution – such as basic roles (prospective student, student, employee, alumni, etc.) or more specific (English major, faculty advisor, basketball player, etc.) ones.

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