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Team # 517 -- SOAR (Search Online and Register) - a product of the O&CE Information & Technology Task Force (ICTTF)
University Outreach (Continuing and Distance Education)

September 2002

Objective

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Team Membership

• Outreach and Cooperative Extension Information and Technology Task Force, Sponsor
• Ken Borthwick, Member
• Jeff Luck, Member
• Sherry Tirko, Member
• Donna Yorukoglu, Member

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Results Achieved to Date

• Challenge:To provide a user-friendly way to search for O&CE products and purchase them across all O&CE websites with minimal impact to the unit websites (WPSX, WPSU, Distance Education/World Campus, Conferences & Institutes, Continuing Education, etc.). The unit sites are individually designed and maintained.
  
  Methodology: Starting in 2001, the SOAR Project Team begin creating a meta-layer to be applied to each unit website. This meta-layer provides consistent functionality across all unit websites and allows the customer to find and cross-purchase from the individual unit sites via a common ecommerce interface.
  
  Innovation: The SOAR project represents an approach that empowers individual units to design their websites in support of their individual business goals and processes while cross-selling products and unifying the purchase process to an organizational and institutional standard. The ecommerce portion is designed to leverage the University's ecommerce solution.
  
  Impact: SOAR is currently in development. The "search" function is to be released this summer and the "purchase" function will be released by the end of CY 2002.
  
  Website: http://icttf.outreach.psu.edu

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