SSWG Notes - 2009-12-16

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SSWG Notes - 2009-12-16

Date and Time:  December 16, 2009, 10:00-11:30
Location:  1003 Kemper Hall
Agenda

Attendees

  • David Walker, VPIET, Chair
  • Christopher Derr, LAWR
  • Paul Drobny, Student Affairs
  • Safa Hussain, Administrative and Resource Management
  • Deborah Lauriano, Application Development
  • Minh Nguyen, Letters and Sciences
  • Jeremy Smith (Phillips), Center for Mind and Brain
  • Thomas Wiley, UCD Extension

Review of Our Statement on Platforms

The meeting was devoted to a discussion of Preliminary Recommendations for Application Platforms to Foster Interoperability, Sharing, and Reuse - 2009-12-17 DRAFT (DHW).  The document was modified during the discussion, and there will be further modifications based on the discussion.  The following points were raised:

  • We'll move the linked definitions of interoperability, sharing, and reuse into the document to make them more prominent.
  • Part of our future discussions to flesh out the definitions of our recommended platforms will need to include the components that are assembled to produce an instance of of the platform.  We agreed to produce a matrix showing the options; Jeremy started one during the meeting.  He also started a matrix showing factors that should be considered for platform selection that are out of scope for this paper.
  • We won't list Oracle Forms with the other platforms.  Instead, we'll mentioned later in the document to explain why it is not recommended for future systems, but is still viable for current systems.
  • We didn't have consensus as to whether we consider ColdFusion to be analogous to Oracle Forms, in terms of our recommendations.  We'll leave it as a recommended platform for now, but we may reconsider in a future revision of the document.
  • At some point, we'll want to make a statement about the need for alignment with business needs, and how that alignment is likely to be where the real value and potential savings can be achieved.  That alignment can be achieved either through IT system design or by business process re-engineering.
  • We will encourage IT "shops" to establish internal platform standards, even when there is no need for interoperability, sharing, or reuse with other "shops."