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Subject: OASIS Member News: Coppin State College Selects Business Layers' eProvisionT Education Edition


Title: OASIS Member News: Coppin State College Selects Business Layers' eProvisionT Education Edition

Coppin State College Selects Business Layers' eProvision(tm) Education Edition

First Provisioning Solution Dedicated to Security and Identity Management Needs of Higher Education Deployed in 4 Weeks

BALTIMORE, M.D., November 18, 2003- Business Layers, the eProvisioning Company(tm), announced today at a Check Presentation Ceremony that held in the office of Coppin President Dr. Stanley F. Battle that Coppin State College has implemented Business Layers' eProvision Education Edition.  The solution allows Coppin students and faculty to create and manage accounts through a self-service module, while reducing IT costs and increasing user satisfaction.  The complete project was completed in 4 weeks, within the time allotted and under budget. 

According to Gartner  "Current staffing levels can't accommodate enterprises' growing needs for day-to-day security administration activities at the help desk or security administration groups.  Identity and Access Management solutions are one of the few areas within the information security program that provide you with direct savings." "This is especially important for the Education Market due to the cyclical nature of their user population and specific security concerns", said Gartner Research Director, Roberta J. Witty.  "Universities must ensure that the accounts associated with users who are no longer affiliated with the institution are removed from the IT environment." 

eProvision Software Education Edition provides a focal point for all IT resource allocation requests, approvals, and activities. The software allows educational institutions to expedite IT provisioning, in an orderly, secure, and controlled manner. Through automated responses to status changes, as well as full auditing capabilities, eProvision Software Education Edition helps universities comply with governmental regulations like the Patriot Act, SEVIS and others.

By implementing eProvision Education Edition, Coppin State College is able to drive all IT changes through PeopleSoft Student Administration Module, the College's central repository of information. This allows students and faculty to create and modify their own email accounts, and automatically trigger deletion of email accounts when the student or faculty member left, while maintaining an accurate and complete IT audit trail.

"Coppin State College is excited about eProvision Education Edition," said Coppin President Dr. Stanley F. Battle. Among other exciting things, this software will reduce IT cost, and simplify account the account management process. This will further enhance Coppin's IT capabilities, which has grown by leaps and bounds under the outstanding vision and leadership of Dr. Ahmed El-Haggan." 

"eProvision Education Edition not only automates the account management process at Coppin, but has actually reengineered the process.  It accepts all of our rules and policies, and provides the workflow needed to ensure that proper changes are made to accounts, said Dr. Ahmed El-Haggan, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Coppin State College.  Dr. El Haggan added, "Password reset has been a major source of my help desk calls, and with eProvision Education Edition I can be out of that business."

 "Universities face the challenge of protecting online resources and user privacy, while enabling ease-of-use with a limited IT budget," said Izhar Shay, President & CEO of Business Layers.  "Coppin State College is a ahead of the curve in addressing the unique Identity Management requirements of the higher education market.  We are happy to add Coppin to our growing roster of higher education customers."

About eProvision(tm) Education Edition
eProvision Education Edition from Business Layers is a solution uniquely tailored to the needs of colleges, universities and other post-secondary educational institutions. The solution is based upon the industry-leading eProvision Software product. It includes modules that provide student self-service for new account requests, as well as for password reset - two functions that are key to reducing costs and improving customer service. eProvision Education Edition ships with default policies and workflow specifically geared to academic needs, based on Business Layers' experience implementing provisioning at major universities.

About Business Layers
Business Layers is the global leader in provisioning software, the cornerstone of identity management solutions. The company's award-winning eProvision(tm) Software products, help organizations enhance security and increase efficiency by automatically allocating IT resources to employees, customers, contractors and business partners, according to corporate policy. Business Layers is headquartered in Rochelle Park, NJ. For more information, please contact Business Layers at 877-552-9377, or visit www.businesslayers.com.

About Coppin State College

Located in Northwest Baltimore, the primary mission of Coppin State College is to provide high quality undergraduate and graduate education in the arts and sciences and in preprofessional and professional areas, including teacher education and nursing. Within the University System of Maryland, Coppin State College has the unique mission of primarily focusing on the problems, needs and aspirations of the people of Baltimore's central city and its immediate metropolitan area.  Coppin is an accredited, urban institution of higher learning dedicated to providing the highest quality undergraduate and graduate education. Coppin has graduated more than 5,000 students who are employed locally, nationally, and internationally. Coppin, which is 103-years-old, has a proud past, and an optimistic future.


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