Kuali Foundation - Kuali Initiatives

Kuali Initiatives

The goal of Kuali is to provide quality open source software, built for higher education, by higher education. The Foundation is working on the following initiatives:

• Kuali Financial Systems (KFS), The Kuali Financial System (KFS) project is working to create and enhance a comprehensive suite of financial software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions.

• 'Kuali Coeus (KC), a research administration system for higher education.

• Kuali Rice (Rice) (Software Development Simplified), a suite of middleware programs (workflow, messaging, identity management), interfaces and Web services around a service bus. With the Rice components, developers can more easily build and link applications as collections of modular, interconnected services.

• 'Kuali Student (KS), Kuali Student (KS) is a community-source, next-generation information system designed to meet the business needs of students, faculty and institutions throughout the academic lifecycle. The software is being incrementally produced by a dedicated community of international higher education partners and distributed through the Open Source license. It achieves a rich user experience through user-centric design and offers a modular, scalable system through service-oriented architecture. Because of this modular nature, it can be integrated with legacy and enterprise systems to meet your institution’s current business needs. With its service oriented architecture, Kuali Student can be configured for how you do business today and how you'll want to do business tomorrow.

• 'Kuali OLE (OLE), The Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE)(pronounced oh-LAY) is an extensible, service-driven, library management system. Currently Kuali OLE is utilizing components of KFS and Kuali Rice to build an enterprise ready java-based library management system.

• Kuali Ready (Ready), an above-campus solution for business continuity

• Kuali People Management for the Enterprise (KPME), Kuali People Management for the Enterprise (KPME) is an open-source, comprehensive HR/Payroll System built by higher education for higher education. Composed of both stand-alone and integrated modules, KPME includes Payroll, Time and Attendance, Leave Management, HR Core Transactions, Benefits Administration and Position Management.

• Kuali Mobility, Kuali Mobile for the Enterprise (KME) connects the portfolio of diverse campus systems to the ever changing world of consumer devices. It uses native apps on iPhone, Android, etc. via the app stores and HTML5 to achieve 'write once, run anywhere' for low cost mobile services.

KME in practice includes the following advantages:

• University-Wide - Provides services for all members of your institution's community: Class tools for students, curriculum management features for faculty, and financial and employee services for staff.
• Deep Integration - KME provides straight-forward (not watered-down) interfaces to critical systems and data.It uses simple interfaces to tackle tasks at a high level, or drill down for more details and options.
• Decoupled from Backend Services - Use KME to access data directly via database connections, or connect to any system that provides a compatible web service (or adaptable with KME's built-in data transformers).