From: Niels van Dijk <>
Date: February 19, 2009 9:09:36 AM MST
To: TF-EMC2 <>
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Subject: Service spanning Group management
Hello list,
Please find below a link to our report on Service spanning
Group management. The investigation describes ways of implementing such
a feature, evaluates 10 products and makes an inventory of SURFnets
services in regard to group management requirements.
http://www.surfnet.nl/Documents/indi-2008-012-019.pdfShould you have questions or comments, please feel free to share these.
Regards,
Niels van Dijk
Snap from the executive summary:
SURFnet seeks to raise the level of integration between the various collaboration services that
it delivers to its community. The possibility of applying group management features across the
various services is regarded as a requirement to achieve this goal.
A short investigation has been made of solutions for service spanning group management. i.e.
user groups that can be managed centrally and can be used in different web based
applications. Also SURFnet service managers were interviewed about group management in
order to discover the utility of such groups for their service.
The general conclusion is that the services SURFgroepen en SURFmedia will immediately
benefit from centrally managed user groups, but the rest is happy the way they are. If a
central group manager would be implemented, some service managers could think of possible
applications but they would all be related to role-based authorization based on groupmembership.
The search for a product that most likely will fulfill the needs for SURFnet is
COManage/Grouper. Grouper offers the best interoperability and developer support of all
evaluated products.
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Niels van Dijk
Advanced Services
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