1. THE OPEN API AND DATA
SECURITY PLATFORM FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION
Student data usage is under increased scrutiny
as integration points and support complexity
increase. Both institutions and developers are
under fire to do more to prevent the loss or
misuse of student data. That scrutiny doesn?t
decrease the need for student data. Innovative
educational technology requires data to
demonstrate value by improving student
success and retention.
Solution Overview
For Higher Education Institutions
The Lingk platform improves student data integrations by
joining standards-based educational data models with
standard integration protocols. A cloud solution, Lingk
enables institutions to integrate, govern and share student
data and securely expose data to third parties using open
APIs. We have created the first higher education Data as a
Service (DaaS).
Sharing student data at scale requires that institutions
implement a unified governance platform that allows a
global view of integrations. With institutional governance
and the cloud data storage, the Lingk platform reduces the
risks of data sharing in support of internal and third-party
data needs. The Lingk platform connects SISdata to
applications of all types through open REST APIs, reducing
the need for and cost of point-to-point, custom integrations.
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?Today, faculty, staff, and students
expect to use institutional systems
and to access, transmit, and store data
anytime and anywhere using a wide
variety of personal and work devices
and applications. Institutional
applicationshave burgeoned, and
integration pointshave increased
exponentially. The complexity of IT
support hasincreased accordingly.?
Top 10 ITIssues, 2015:Inflection
Point, EDUCAUSEReview

2. The data needs of an institution are increasing based on the
number of applications and systems designed to improve
business and academic conditions. This situation can put a
strain on IT teams who work with the data and support
enterprise and academic application integrations. While the
amount of data is increasing, data governance difficulties
increase the risk of unauthorized data sharing.
Integrating with the Lingk platform enables rapid deployment
of connected systems and solidifies your data security
strategy. The Lingk platform can even improve the value of
iPaaS-based integration initiatives that involve data storage
and APIs management.
UNLOCK DATA
Open API and Data Security Platform For Higher Education
- Satisfy the increasing data needs of
institutions
- Expand use cases without
overtaxing your team
- Decrease risk when sharing data
with institutional systems and
application developers
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3. The institution of the future has more applications accessing
more data both on-premise and in the cloud. The Lingk
platform is built for the needs of the future by driving
consistent security and governance practices. By applying
consistent practices to an integration strategy, an
application portfolio emerges that improves as IT
collaboration with other departments and vendors increases.
IT staff serving the institution of the future will need to be
more collaborative than ever before. To keep those valuable
resources fully engaged, institutions should treat integration
initiatives as an opportunity to build relationships between
IT, departments, and, vendors.
SECURETHEFUTURE
- Reduce risk with consistent security
and data governance
- Build an application catalog while
driving strategic IT collaboration
- Improve satisfaction of IT staff
- Build relationships with SISand
application vendors
Current integration practices require IT to continually learn
vendor-specific integration techniques, reducing the time
they have for larger institutional challenges. With open APIs
and data models that standardize and speed integration, the
Lingk platform provides an immediate benefit to these users.
EMPOWERINSTITUTIONAL
SUCCESS- Facilitate introduction of
innovation with open APIs and data
models
- Easily support an increasing
number of educational applications
and administrative systems
- Enable mobile applications to be
built with confidence
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"ITintegration techniquesneed to be more agile and collaborative in order
to meet the growing demandsof administration and students. Lingk?s
cloud-based data service will enable the university to connect applications
with ease while addressing student data security."
Stephen diFilipo
CIO, MSOEUniversity

4. An increasingly large ecosystem of developers - serving app providers or your IT team - desire
simpler integration techniques. They may prefer to connect directly to the SISto ensure the most
recent data, and they expect to use high quality cloud-based APIs. However, many institutions are
severely challenged with managing APIs and building a developer ecosystem.
Lingk enables developers to access data the way they want - when they need it - while allowing
institutions to share data consistently, securely and at scale.
DEVELOPER-FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCEINNOVATIVE
SOLUTIONSFASTER
Every new innovation introduced to your institution from
vendors can increase complexity. When complexity slows the
pilot and adoption of beneficial applications and systems, the
institution becomes less responsive to students and other
stakeholders.
The Lingk platform increases the pace of innovation on campus
by leveling the playing field of access to institutional data and
reducing the complexity of integration.
MAKEA DEEPERIMPACT
When the bar of application integration and access to student
data lowers, both app providers and IT engineering can make a
deeper impact. App providers using Lingk have access to
student data not easily available via other integration
techniques.
With governed access to student data using pre-defined
datasets, the communication between the app providers and IT
is simplified, enabling both to focus on their core mission.
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