Identity management in universities is highly complex, with numerous categories of population whose status changes over time.
To this you can add a large number of business applications containing partial or complete data that need to be reconciled.
Multi-service card management and student access to applications make this management even more complex.
To manage this in France, the SupAnn which formalizes the data and takes into account all the specific features mentioned above, so that it can be integrated into identity management.
For example, the SupAnn standard takes into account the problem of doctoral students who have a mixed status - they work but are still students. It also takes into account assignments within several establishments with different roles and responsibilities, and the management of multi-service cards.
Thanks to FusionDirectory, we've been helping universities and research centers improve their student enrolment and lifecycle processes as part of their identity management for over 10 years.
We realized that, although French, the SupAnn standard could be applied in other university contexts. This year we studied how to adapt this standard to the Belgian context.
The results show that all the processes and data modeling can be transposed to the Belgian university context, and that using the SupAnn standard will simplify and formalize identity management.
Our work over the next few months will therefore be devoted to developing the SupAnn standard in the context of Belgian universities, whom we'll be trying to meet in order to present our work to them.
