Administrative Computing

Sun is a market leader in Administrative Computing with strong relationships best of breed software solution vendors. CIOs and IT Directors trust Sun to build open, secure, scalable, and highly-available campus infrastructures.

Using Sun technologies, university and college administrators implement easy-to-manage, always-on services for all their constituents. Sun products and services form the infrastructure upon which value-added services to students, faculty, and alumni are enabled at low TCO and high availability. CIOs worldwide look to Sun as their chief partner and advisor.
 

What's New
Identity Management in a Box
The Aegis Identity Appliance is a "shrink-wrapped" hardware-based solution incorporating core Sun IdM technology, integrated with Aegis intellectual property, best practices, methodologies, and architecture.
White Paper: Kuali Financial System Implementation
Academic institutions need open technologies to optimize their application environ- ments while meeting the organizations’ business needs. The Kuali Financial System (KFS) project provides a comprehensive suite of financial software to meet the needs of all Carnegie-class institutions.
Oracle's 10G Rel 2 Database Now Runs on Solaris 10 x64!
Oracle certifies their flagship database 10G rel 2 to run on Solaris 10 x64. This makes the world's pre-eminent database available on Sun's newest Opteron servers running Solaris 10.
 
 
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The Research Foundation of State University of New York Ensuring Smooth Flow of Funds with Comprehensive Sun Technology & Services Solution
This research foundation relies on a total Sun solution to ensure that Oracle business applications run smoothly. As a result, the foundation has been able to reduce processing time, streamline the backup process and improve performance.
Western Michigan University Increases Security & Improves User Satisfaction using Sun Identity Management
Western Michigan University needed a solution to provision email while managing student, faculty and staff access to all applications and IT resources.
Students at The University of York Get More Study Time with Sun Secure Global Desktop Solution
U.K.-based university sought to enhance the student educational experience by centrally managing desktops, while reducing the administrative workload and power costs. Using Sun Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray clients and Sun Fire servers, the university can provision PCs from a central location—empowering students to use their study time more effectively.
 
 
White Papers
Sun Identity Product Consultant Portfolio - Global Education and Research
This directory lists individual consultants and consulting firms specializing in architecting and implementing Sun Microsystems identity management solutions.
Sun Benchmark Study of the Oracle Student System Deployment at DeVry University
This white paper describes the motivations for conducting the benchmark, the implementation environment, the methodology used, the observed results, the lessons learned, and the implementation of these lessons in a re-designed deployment architecture.
Creating Advanced Architectures for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications with Sun Technology and Expertise
By partnering with Sun to create an architecture for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, organizations can achieve an effective design that addresses unique challenges and provides the reliability, performance, and security needed to support an important enterprise resource.
 
 
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Sun and AegisUSA Solution Brief
Together, Sun and AegisUSA offer a complete identity management solution that can be seemlessly implemented, enabling educational institutions to provide secure access to all of their users Œ for less money and in less time than traditional implementation providers.
Sun and rSmart Kuali Solution Brief
Open source financial system for education.
Sun and PeopleSoft - Solutions for Education
Sun and Oracle have joined forces to provide innovative, powerful solutions for education.