Fujitsu Launches UniflDone, an Integrated ID Management Package for Universities

Tokyo, August 29, 2011

Fujitsu Limited today announced the immediate availability of UniflDone, a package for the integrated management of user IDs across multiple systems scattered through an academic environment.

This system integrates the management of user IDs, passwords, names, affiliations, and addresses across the various systems used in an academic setting, including personnel and student-life systems, library-information systems, and continuing education coursework systems. Universities have unusual requirements for ID management, as they have numerous user categories and affiliations, including full-time students, continuing education students, library users, instructors, graduates, and parents. This system gives universities a single system where user information can be recorded and updated, and allows them to manage settings such as e-mail environments and printing restrictions on either an individual or group basis.

This saves on the trouble of manually setting up, changing, and deleting IDs on each system, making ID management more efficient and cutting operating costs by approximately 70%.

In addition, with optional ID Lifecycle Management, the system can assign appropriate access permissions to each system automatically based on a student's enrollment status (active, on leave, graduated), and Lifetime ID Management can provide integrated management outside of a person's university years to cover their time at affiliated institutions (grammar schools, middle schools, high schools) as well as their time after graduation.

In line with recent expansion of university services to more and more categories of users, including full-time students, continuing education students, library users, instructors, graduates, and parents, the number of systems is also growing. In addition, with the roles and affiliations that apply to users changing over time—students advancing from undergraduate to graduate schools, and then possibly becoming a member of the faculty, for example—universities have some unusual requirements that make manual ID management an increasingly serious burden.

Fujitsu offers UniflDone with these conditions and requirements in mind, to provide academic institutions with an integrated ID management package that capitalizes on Fujitsu's experience and know-how in building data systems for universities.

Product features

1. Integrates management of user information over multiple systems

Enables integrated management of user IDs, passwords, names, affiliations, and addresses over multiple systems in an academic environment, including educational research systems, personnel and student-life systems, library data systems, and continuing education coursework systems.

By dispensing with the need to set up, change, and delete IDs on each system individually, the process of ID management is greatly streamlined and operating costs are reduced by approximately 70%. The package can be added to systems that are already in operation.

2. Handles information-management requirements unique to universities, accommodating multiple categories of users

A single system that can handle the complex ID-management tasks that result from a university's particular need to accommodate multiple user categories and affiliations—including full-time students, continuing education students, library users, instructors, graduates, and parents—allows the university to manage settings such as e-mail environments and printing restrictions on either an individual or group basis.

3. Optional features including ID Lifecycle Management and Lifetime ID Management also available

By deploying UniflDone Campuswide Option V1, students can be automatically granted appropriate access permission on each system based on their enrollment status (active, on leave, returning, graduated) through ID Lifecycle Management; by deploying UniflDone Campuswide Expanded Option V1, integrated ID management can be extended beyond students' university years to cover their time at affiliated schools and as alumni through Lifetime ID Management.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing and Availability

Product name	Pricing (excl tax)	Availability
UniflDone Basic V1	JPY 2.5 million	Immediate
UniflDone Campuswide Option V1	JPY 1.5 million	Immediate
UniflDone Campuswide Expanded Option V1	JPY 2 million	Immediate

Sales target

Deployment at approximately 50 universities by end of FY2013 (Fujitsu's fiscal year ends March 31).

Operating environment

ID management server

OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Required software: Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0, Postgres Plus Standard Server 9.0

User-facing webserver

OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Required software: Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0

Administrator client

Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8–9
Report-display software: Microsoft Word 2010

User client

Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6–9, Mozilla Firefox 3, Apple Safari 5