Morehouse School of Medicine
About the Client
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), located in Atlanta, Ga., was founded in 1975 as the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College. In 1981, MSM became an independently chartered institution. MSM is among the nation’s leading educators of primary care physicians and was recently recognized as the top institution among U.S. medical schools for our social mission. Our faculty and alumni are noted in their fields for excellence in teaching, research and public policy.
MSM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Council on Education for Public Health, Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Challenge
MSM was looking to partner with an ERP Managed Services provider for Banner® Enterprise Identity Services (BEIS) implementation.
Solution
After numerous discussions internally, MSM selected OculusIT as their partner to perform BEIS implementation. The core of this partnership is inclusive of OculusIT providing project management and BEIS implementation within multiple instances of MSM’s student information system.
The scope of this engagement for TEST and PROD instance execution includes:
- Configure FMW & Managed Server for BEIS installation
- Configure ERP Database
- Prepare SSO Manager ear file for deployment
- Deploy SSO Manager Ear file
- Configure SSO Manager for the CAS Server
- Configure Identity Export/Imp Utilities for general to generate UDC IDs
- Configure SSB SSO of TEST and PROD instance with CAS Server
- Configure INB SSO of TEST and PROD instance with CAS Server
OculusIT will provide premium support along with assisting MSM in developing relevant policies and ensuring the efficient control of their mission critical IT components.
Major Success
- 60 days from signed contract to operational SOC.
- Multiple events reduced to small count of actionable incidents with OculusIT SIEM tool.
- One source of information for firewall monitoring, management and determining asset inventory with OculusIT.
About Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. There are 101 HBCUs in the United States, including both public and private institutions (down from the 121 institutions that existed during the 1930s).Of these remaining HBCU institutions in the United States, 27 offer doctoral programs, 52 offer master’s programs, 83 offer bachelor’s degree programs, and 38 offer associate degrees.