SOLUTIONS

Infrastructure Framework

 

Solution Providers

In addition to Sun's own technologies, software solution partners offer a complete set of core administrative applications. This portfolio reviews solutions for the full spectrum of administrative functions such as Alumni Development, Campus Security, Facility Management, Human Resources Database Management, Class and Curriculum Management, Finance, Student Administration and Asset Management.

BMC Software - Patrol

BMC Software, Inc. is the world leader in solutions for enterprise -wide management of heterogeneous environments, and developed the application service assurance strategy to ensure the availability, performance and recovery of your applications. BMC software ensures system management from the infrastructure to the applications to the end-user experience with solutions for every environment. BMC Software solutions help you monitor the elements of your system, manage your components and service level agreements, control your system outages and ensure recovery, optimize your system performance, and predict the impact of changes in your service levels.

Patrol, BMC Software's flagship product, monitors and manages a wide variety of applications, databases, operating systems, and underlying technologies to ensure everything is up and running, all the time.

Languages: English

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Windows95/98/2000/NT, HP-UX

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
BMC Software
2101 CityWest Blvd.
Houston, TX 77042
Phone: (703) 744-3582
Fax: (703) 744-3660

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Education Systems, Inc. - Wireless Campus ToGO! , One Stop Campus Portal, and Diamonds

Our exciting new One Stop Campus Portal, together with our excellent work- flow management system, Diamonds, provides a seamless path to pertinent information from independent systems. In essence, it allows students, faculty and administration to retrieve data from one common point, on the fly. Education Systems has also recently unveiled its much anticipated suite of wireless applications, Wireless CampusToGo!. These valuable products are designed to provide instant, up-to-date, user-specific information via any wireless handheld device.

Languages: English

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX (diamonds), Windows95/98/2000/NT

Geographic Coverage: North America

Headquarters:
Education Systems, Inc.
1111 Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone Toll-Free: (888) 373-4357
Phone: (858) 454-9765
Fax: (858) 454-9766

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Expertcity, Inc. - Expercity.com, DesktopStreaming.com, GoToMyPC.com

Expertcity, Inc. is the leading provider of Web-based remote-access and customer-support technologies. The company's proprietary screen-sharing technology employs a secure communication architecture that incorporates sophisticated compression to enable instant streaming of a computer's desktop display between any two Internet-connected computers.

Expertcity offers three products: Expertcity.com provides technical support to consumers via a real-time marketplace; DesktopStreaming.com is an application service that allows enterprises to remotely assist their users; and GoToMyPC.com enables both consumers and enterprises to remotely access and work on their PCs from any Internet location.

Languages: English

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, Windows95/98/2000/NT, Linux

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
Expertcity, Inc.
5385 Hollister Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Phone: (805) 690-6490
Fax: (805) 964-6103

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IBM Data Management - DB2

DB2 Product Family
IBM Data Management and Sun Microsystems are committed to providing their customers with tightly integrated, dependable and scalable solutions that are flexible enough to meet any business need. Our customer case studies prove that whether you're implementing decision support, e-business, integrated document management, or online transaction processing solutions (OLTP), Sun and IBM make a winning combination!

IBM and Sun have long been among the strongest proponents of Java in the industry. You'll appreciate DB2 Universal Database's full support for Java, including support for the Java programming language, stored procedures, and user defined functions. DB2 Universal Database is also accessible from both Java applets and applications.

For information about training for DB2 on the Solaris Operating System, please visit IBM Learning Services at http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/ and select your country of interest.

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, OS/2, Windows, HP-UX, Linux, NUMA-Q, AS/400, OS/390

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
IBM
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
Phone: (408) 463-3675
Fax: (408) 463-2629

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Informix Software

Informix information management solutions are open, scalable, manageable, and fully extensible, providing the kind of flexibility that is essential for growing organizations. Whether for data warehousing, analysis and decision support, Web content delivery, or broadcasting film, sound, photographs, and text from a digital media library--Informix products are engineered to enable today's businesses to efficiently manage any kind of information, anywhere, and at any time.In addition, Informix Cloudscape is a small footprint, object-relational database management system meeting the 100% Pure Java certification standards. It implements SQL-92E with some of the more advanced SQL-92 features, and Java extensions. Cloudscape is designed specifically for distributed eBusiness applications, mobile applications, and Java applications that require an embedded database.

Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Windows95/98/2000/NT, Linux, HP-UX

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
Informix Software
4100 Bohannon Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: (800) 331-1763
Fax: (510) 628-3932

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Interactive Business Solutions, Inc. - uPortal

Interactive Business Solutions, Inc. (IBS) is a consulting services and development organization specializing in Enterprise Java technology-based Solutions for Higher Education. We provide clients with architecture expertise and distributed-object application development services. We specialize in distributed enterprise solutions that can scale to satisfy even the most demanding applications. Our Java technology-based Enterprise Application Framework offers excellent connectivity capabilities to integrate with your existing systems.

IBS has developed a Java-based portal framework, uPortal, in conjunction with a consortium of universities known as the Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG). IBS already has business alliances with many of the institutions involved in the uPortal initiative. Because of our contribution to the development effort and our understanding of the uPortal framework, IBS can give universities a "leg up" in getting started on their portal implementation.

The JA-SIG's uPortal was developed by universities for universities. (See the Administrative Computing section for more info on the JA-SIG)

Languages: English

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Windows95/98/2000/NT, Linux, HP-UX

Geographic Coverage: North America, Asia Pacific

Headquarters:
Interactive Business Solutions, Inc.
880 Apollo Street, Suite 237
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: (310) 414-6760 ext. 206
Fax: (310) 414-6759

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iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance

The iPlanet Internet Service Deployment Platform is the industry's leading software environment designed to enable rapid development, assembly, and deployment of scalable Internet services allowing businesses and educational institutions to succeed in the Net Economy. The product includes the following major components:

Unified User Management Services: Focuses on offering a single view of the user including their credentials, profile, and policy.

Web, Application, and Integration Services: Provides enterprises and service providers with a robust and comprehensive Net-based application delivery, business-to-business (B2B) integration, and Enterprise Application Integration infrastructure upon which iPlanet and third-party e-commerce applications and services may be built.

Communication Services: Offers telecom providers, service providers, portals and innovative enterprises an open, flexible, and scalable communication foundation to create new content, collaboration, and commerce services for the rapidly converging voice, wireline, and wireless networks.

Portal Services: Enables the dynamic creation of a portal in a single location that aggregates enterprises', as well as service providers' applications, content, and services and presents them in a consolidated format based upon the user's profile.

Languages:
English (see http://www.iplanet.com/ for localization of specific products)

Operating Systems:
Solaris Operating System, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows NT
(Note that not all products are available on all platforms.)

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance
466 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: (888) 786-8111
Fax: (650) 528-4124

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Lotus Development Corporation - IBM Mindspan Solutions

IBM Mindspan Solutions - A Complete, End-to-End e-learning Solution

IBM Mindspan Solutions, the worldwide leader in e-learning solutions, leverages IBM's and Lotus' extensive experience, technologies and worldwide reach to provide organizations with e-learning solutions that solve mission-critical learning needs. IBM Mindspan Solutions utilizes dedicated e-learning sales specialists and an experienced set of worldwide service resources focused on the learning marketplace. These resources include more than 3,400 services practitioners as well as a global content development community with 15 facilities around the world. For more information visit the Web site at www.ibm.com/mindspan.

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Windows95/98/2000/NT (Note that some products are not available on all platforms.)

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
Lotus Development Corporation
One Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 577-8500
Fax: (617) 693-5531

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Novell, Inc. - NEAP

Novell Education offers academic institutions tools, software, support, career development programs, and academic pricing for curriculum through its Novell Education Academic Partner (NEAP) program. The NEAP program is free of charge and worldwide.

In addition, Novell Education offers technical training and certification programs around Net Services software.

Net Services
Net Services software includes Cross-platform Novell eDirectory (meta-directory), security and authentication, portal and identity, as well as platform infrastructure and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS/DHCP). Effective implementation of Net Services allows for unification of diverse components into a oneNet environment that simplifies, secures and accelerates the Internet, intranets and extranets into a single ebusiness enabled network. Novell certification includes the Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) - Introductory network infrastructure courseware, Certified Novell Engineer (CNE)--Intermediate cross-platform infrastructure courseware, and Certified Directory Engineer (CDE)--Advanced cross-platform integration courseware. Individual proficiency courses on each Net Services component are also available, as well as customized offerings.

Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Linux,
Windows 2000, Windows NT

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
Novell, Inc.
1800 South Novell Place
Provo, UT 84606
Phone: (801) 861-2836
Fax: (801) 861-6490

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Tivoli Systems, Inc. - Storage Manager, Disaster Recovery Manager, Space Manager, SANergy

Tivoli Storage Manager
A full-function storage management software product that addresses the challenges of complex storage management across distributed environments. It protects and manages a broad range of data, from the workstation to the corporate server environment. Over 35 different operating platforms are supported -- many include a consistent graphical user interface (GUI).

Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager
Protects against hardware failure, user error, and natural disasters that can result in data being lost forever. Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager automates much of the business continuity planning needed to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster.

Tivoli Space Manager
Provides hierarchical storage management to automatically migrate rarely accessed files to alternate storage, without disrupting the most frequently used files in local storage. Migrated files are automatically and transparently recalled to primary storage when needed by applications or users.

Tivoli SANergy
Enables high performance storage sharing at the volume, file or byte level across heterogeneous systems over any SAN media (Fibre Channel, SCSI, SSA, iSCSI, InfiniBand, etc.) SANergy is a highly scalable solution whose "Power to Share" helps to significantly improve the storage ROI.

Languages: English

Operating Systems: Solaris Operating System, AIX, Windows95/98/2000/NT, HP-UX

Geographic Coverage: Worldwide

Headquarters:
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
9441 Capital of Texas Hwy. North
Austin, TX 78759
Phone: (512) 436-9267
Fax: (512) 436-9920

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