The Institutional, Collaborative, and Academic Technologies group (ICAT) delivers broad technology services to all members of the university community, including: email, calendaring, web content publishing, elearning  and identity management solutions.  ICAT staff combine a strong mix of technical and functional analysis skills, to address the quickly evolving technology needs of the community. ICAT's skills and talents include:

• Java developers, over 50 years of combined Java development experience
• Apache implementation and integration experts
• LDAP and directory services experts
• Business analysis, training and documentation support professionals
• Graphic and information design expertise.

Services

ICAT's responsibilities can be classified into three categories:

eLearning

• WebCT - Online course delivery and gradebook
  
• LON-CAPA - Online course delivery for sciences
  
• Sakai - Open source collaboration space

Collaboration

• SFU CQ content management system - Web content creation and publishing
  
• SFU Connect - Campus email and calendering, using Zimbra software
  
• SFU Wiki - Wiki service using local installation of MediaWiki
  
• SFU Survey - Online survey tool, locally developed and hosted
  
• SFU Blogs - Blogging service using local installation of Wordpress

Identity and Access Management; Middleware Infrastructure

• Amaint - SFU computing account creation and management
  
• SAM application - SFU functional computing account creation
• Lightweight Account application - Guest computing account creation
• Maillist2 application - Email list self-management and groups control
• SFU Directory - Email and phone directory
• CAS - Central Authentication Service single sign for web applications
• Shibboleth - Federated, inter-institutional sign on for web applications
• LDAP - Distributed directory service
• ARCS Manager - Access control middleware
• UDD GDD - Identity and access control middleware 
• AWSome - Identity SOAP Web Services integration middleware
• REST Server - Resource based web services integration middleware
• Certificate Authority - Master CA for SFU public keys
• Apache/Tomcat - SFU web and application servers
• SOA Infrastructure Software - Web service security and XML firewall service.