One question a lot of our customers ask is whether to build a custom solution or buy an existing vended package. Often requirements are unique and “University-of-Iowa-specific.” In those cases a custom solution is required and, as our name indicates, we help you plan and build your custom solution from the ground up. But sometimes there are existing solutions that meet all, or at least part, of customers’ needs. So, we begin every customer engagement with a discussion about existing solutions. There’s no sense reinventing the wheel! We can help you evaluate possibilities, as solutions vary not only in how well they meet your needs, but in how well they fit into the University of Iowa's infrastructure. If a vended solution exists, we can complete the integration work to connect your new system correctly to campus including everything from authentication/authorization to feeding in data from authoritative sources.