THE OPEN API AND DATA SECURITY PLATFORM FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Student data usage is under increased scrutiny as integration points and support complexity increase. Both institutions and developers are under f ire to do more to prevent the loss or misuse of student data. That scrutiny doesn?t decrease the need for student data. Innovative educational technology requires data to demonstrate value by improving student success and retention.

Solution OverviewFor Higher Education Institutions

The Lingk platform improves student data integrations by joining standards-based educational data models with standard integration protocols. A cloud solution, Lingk enables institutions to integrate, govern and share student data and securely expose data to third parties using open APIs. We have created the f irst higher education Data as a Service (DaaS).

Sharing student data at scale requires that institutions implement a unif ied governance platform that allows a global view of integrations. With institutional governance and the cloud data storage, the Lingk platform reduces the risks of data sharing in support of internal and third-party data needs. The Lingk platform connects SIS data to applications of all types through open REST APIs, reducing the need for and cost of point-to-point, custom integrations.

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?Today, faculty, staff, and students expect to use institutional systems and to access, transmit, and store data anytime and anywhere using a wide variety of personal and work devices and applications. Institutional applications have burgeoned, and integration points have increased exponentially. The complexity of IT support has increased accordingly.?

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The data needs of an institution are increasing based on the number of applications and systems designed to improve business and academic conditions. This situation can put a strain on IT teams who work with the data and support enterprise and academic application integrations. While the amount of data is increasing, data governance dif f iculties increase the risk of unauthorized data sharing.

Integrating with the Lingk platform enables rapid deployment of connected systems and solidif ies your data security strategy. The Lingk platform can even improve the value of iPaaS-based integration init iatives that involve data storage and APIs management.

UNLOCK DATA

Open API and Data Security Platform For Higher Education

- Satisfy the increasing data needs of institutions

- Expand use cases without overtaxing your team

- Decrease risk when sharing data with institutional systems and application developers

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The institution of the future has more applications accessing more data both on-premise and in the cloud. The Lingk platform is built for the needs of the future by driving consistent security and governance practices. By applying consistent practices to an integration strategy, an application portfolio emerges that improves as IT collaboration with other departments and vendors increases.

IT staff serving the institution of the future will need to be more collaborative than ever before. To keep those valuable resources fully engaged, institutions should treat integration init iatives as an opportunity to build relationships between IT, departments, and, vendors.

SECURE THE FUTURE

- Reduce risk with consistent security and data governance

- Build an application catalog while driving strategic IT collaboration

- Improve satisfaction of IT staff - Build relationships with SIS and

application vendors

Current integration practices require IT to continually learn vendor-specif ic integration techniques, reducing the time they have for larger institutional challenges. With open APIs and data models that standardize and speed integration, the Lingk platform provides an immediate benefit to these users.

EMPOWER INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESS- Facilitate introduction of

innovation with open APIs and data models

- Easily support an increasing number of educational applications and administrative systems

- Enable mobile applications to be built with confidence

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"IT integration techniques need to be more agile and collaborative in order to meet the growing demands of administration and students. Lingk?s cloud-based data service will enable the university to connect applications with ease while addressing student data security."

Stephen diFilipo

CIO, MSOE University

An increasingly large ecosystem of developers - serving app providers or your IT team - desire simpler integration techniques. They may prefer to connect directly to the SIS to ensure the most recent data, and they expect to use high quality cloud-based APIs. However, many institutions are severely challenged with managing APIs and building a developer ecosystem.

Lingk enables developers to access data the way they want - when they need it - while allowing institutions to share data consistently, securely and at scale.

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INTRODUCE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FASTER

Every new innovation introduced to your institution from vendors can increase complexity. When complexity slows the pilot and adoption of beneficial applications and systems, the institution becomes less responsive to students and other stakeholders.

The Lingk platform increases the pace of innovation on campus by leveling the playing f ield of access to institutional data and reducing the complexity of integration.  

MAKE A DEEPER IMPACT

When the bar of application integration and access to student data lowers, both app providers and IT engineering can make a deeper impact. App providers using Lingk have access to student data not easily available via other integration techniques.

With governed access to student data using pre-defined datasets, the communication between the app providers and IT is simplif ied, enabling both to focus on their core mission.

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