FEDERATION UNIVERSITY
Going a little further up , the Amazon cloud is a ‘ lake ’ of ‘ jam ’ with tasty systems of innovative technology to be found in it such as data virtualisation and ESB ( Enterprise Service Bus ). As we move through the stack we have some “ large pieces of ‘ chocolate ’, which represents institutional data within our Systems of Record and Differentiation – that is where Oracle and fraXses comes in providing us enterprise grade systems and metadata acquisition / analytics respectively ”. The next ‘ sponge ’ layer includes the optimisation of existing on premise HP infrastructure along with the acquisition of new devices to create reliable on premise disaster recovery ( DR ). Here , Finance and HR systems are among the legacy functions represented within this
“ This combination of key partners has helped us develop our future architectural
vision ”
– Andrew Tully , Executive Director of ITS and Business Solutions ( CIO )
hybrid cloud model . The ‘ icing ’ on the cake , is the fraXses technology we mentioned above , which assesses and categorises data and makes it accessible to the institution as FedUni does not have a data warehouse like all the others and the team is proud being the ‘ first ’.
As digital personalisation becomes more commonplace in our daily lives , so too should staff , students , lecturers and researchers enjoy a slice of this IT cake that contains the ‘ flavour ’ specifically designed for them by simply selecting their own ‘ fruity piece ’. Everyone in the organisation , from Council members to the newest student , can select their ‘ cherry ’. “ In the future , consumers of my cake will get , the progressive digital campus experience , the information , the ‘ flavour ’ they
50 February 2017