Middleware and Integration Services

MaIS services and technologies are used by the campus community and by University business systems to manage enterprise data about people, organizations, accounts, courses, workgroups, and authority.

Services

Identity management

identifies a person across multiple associations and roles, over time, and across the enterprise. Managing identities is key to securely managing services of all kinds, especially those involving financial transactions or sensitive data.

SUNet ID Account services

apply eligibility rules to coordinate the activation and termination of core infrastructure services, by resolving the identity and status of individuals based on their affiliation.

Authority management

centralizes privilege management to provide consistent application of authority rules and lifecycle management, using identity data to provide automated control of privileges as a person's affiliation changes.

We also contribute to the Internet2 community, by hosting the development of Signet, a suite of software tools modeled after the Stanford Authority system.

Technologies

Registries

leverage enterprise data by maintaining consolidated person, organization, account, workgroup, course, and authority data to support identity management, service lifecycles, privilege management, etc.

Integration

brokers information from source systems to consumers via registry document services and LDAP directory services.

Applications

deliver Registry-based services to both individuals and departments on campus through a set of self-service applications.

Directory provisioning

provides a consolidated source of information about people and organizations, published through the campus directory service.

Events middleware

sends and receives messages about data and status changes between the Registries and consumers/contributors.