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Tech Congress 2022 - MSP Session

Tech Congress 2022 - MSP Session

Apr 27, 2022

Overview

At the Ed-Fi Tech Congress 2022, a session was held to discuss the need of a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Special Interest Group (SIG).  Attendees were strong in agreement that a SIG is needed to discuss topics related to deploying and managing Ed-Fi technology at-scale, which will be gathering in the coming weeks after the session.

Participants

Below is a list of participants that participated in the Ed-Fi Tech Congress 2022 Managed Service Provider SIG session.  Note:  if you attended the Tech Congress 2022 MSP session and not included below, please comment below to be included into the list as some attendees attended multiple sessions.

  • EdGraph

    • David Cintron

    • Jean-Francois Guertin

  • Education Analytics

    • Eshara Mondal

    • Mark TenHoor

    • Erik Joranlien

    • Andrew Rice 

  • InnovateEdu/Landing Zone

    • Patrick Yoho

  • Instructure

    • Jeremy Perkins

    • Traci Clarke

  • Alma

    • Kim Hadfield

Topics of Discussion

  • Admin App

    • Need for a GUI-based editor for profiles and editing profiles without the need for ODS / API reboots

    • SSO and Open ID Connect

  • ODS / API Platform

    • Need for row-level security

    • Data transfers between SEA and LEAs

    • Removing password from logging 

    • API throttling for API consumers at-scale

    • GraphQL to cut down on API transactions

    • Working with supplemental domains

    • Working with domains in a versioned manner

    • Issue with no database access / API-only prescription for analytics and other use cases

  • Security at-scale

    • Automated scanning of GitHub repos

    • Penetration testing

    • Practice share methods

  • Deployments

    • Tech Preview channel

    • Less infrastructure to deploy / serving more customers with one API working with multi-models

    • Easier to deploy technology / enable faster time to value / quicker to standup

    • Better communications around the roadmap updates, cycles, releases, etc

  • Integration

    • Certification process - what fields are available from the certification?

    • Reports of data being sent from the API

  • Innovation

    • X-Prize like contests - developing technology to show new/future use cases

Presentation