>> Fronter

Helsinki, April 8th, 2008

Aleksander Pettersen

The Fronter Company

• Founded in 1998– 45 employees in Norway (90 in total)– 12 countries

• K12 (approx 3000)

• Higher Education (approx 100)

• Biggest learning platform in Europe!

"European Seal of Excellence" Gold winner in 2006 and 2004

Fronter installations

Helsinki

Stockholm Oslo Copenhagen Den Haag

London > 1 Million.

90 web based tools

LAMP Technology:LinuxApacheMySQLPHP

Hosting partner:USIT – University of Oslo

> 4 000 000Licenses sold

> 400 000Unique logins daily

Approx. 3000 learning institutions

Fronter Open Learning Platform

IMS ePortfolio

IMS Content Packaging

IMS EnterpriseIMS Enterprise Services

IMS Question & TestIMS Tools &Interoperability

API

Fronter complies with BECTA’s functional and technical

requirements

SRU / SRW

SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework)

SAML / (Shibboleth)

Roll out of Fronter

In UK only: Approx. 30 new schools every week.

All schools need training

All schools need MIS-integration

All schools need a Single Sign On

solution

MIS-Integration IMS Enterprise

IMS Enterprise Services

SIF (Schools Interoperability Service)

Fronter Specific Import

Single Sign On and Authentication solutions Customer specific SSO

Fronter SSO

Shibboleth

FEIDE

Shibboleth

Fronter has joined the LGFLaai federation as:

Identity Provider

and

Service Provider

Will join the uk access management federation shortly.

Shibboleth and IDPRequirements:

Two way integrations with MIS

Shibboleth

Challenges: No unique identifier in the UK

Very few schools and Local Authorities with their own LDAP.

Solution: Fronter UAS (User Administrative System)

Direct integration with all MIS

Act as the IDP

The Fronter installations acts as SP

FEIDE

TODAY: ldap authentication

Moria-authentication will be fully supported by Front

er in 2008

One issue: Fronters Email Client (imap)

Thank you!

aleksander@fronter.com

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