Releasing second half of 2008, is ILM 2 (not yet got a street name—which means to me it may not ship until 2009—the cut off is the end of the calendar year).
<aside> spent lunch with Chris D and Mark J along with some folks from Microsoft (particularly Dominic Watts) and discussed a project that they have been working with some education authorities. Next week (on Thursday) they are running a workshop to discuss the future face of higher education (from the IT perspective). Sounds interesting—next generation VLE with collaboration tools? Anyway, I am looking forward to participating in the workshop. </aside>
Yay—finally a demo. Group Management. The portal is build on top of Windows SharePoint Services. Working with Office 2007 to add a toolbar for groups. They use a mail paradigm to make requests, so that requests can be made off-line and you don't have to wait on-line for requests to be approved. Can use same approval mechanism for new accounts and all the other functions of ILM. The approval processes are all encoded in Visual Studio—ILM consumes the workflows you create elsewhere.
React to events on sets of resources with processes. When a new employee starts, give them access to x and y…
This might come too late to be a viable alternative in the UIM program, but in another year or so, might have been a viable alternative.
Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) may be something that we want to look at as an alternative to Aqualogic—building an application directly from the process (or workflow)… Seems that some of what it does is similar (though I haven't looked at how Visual Studio workflow editor). There seems to be a simplified version of workflow editing here, but they are using WWF. Maybe there are other areas where it is worth us looking at Windows Workflow Foundation (in residences for example?). Chris just suggested that it might be a good replacement for K2 for Freedom of Information. What do you think of that Lee? I wonder if there were any talks on WWF last week…?
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