Case Study: USC MyLaw and Public Website

A portal for the USC Gould School of Law that currently serves 9,000 graduates and alumni. This particular Portal integrates a set of in-house web applications, Google Apps for Education (which includes email, docs, and calendar), UltimateSurvey, BaseCamp, SmarterStats, Paypal, and Outlook Web Access. Via this portal we provide single sign on into Google Apps, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and the Survey System. We also use API calls to provision accounts across two systems: Active Directory and the Google Apps domain. The power of the integration that we accomplished in this system can be better appreciated via a demonstration, but the challenge was the single username & password problem. They wanted Google Apps, and about five other systems to talk to one another without the user having to remember multiple usernames & passwords, and we accomplished this.