Technology Integration & Silos & Relationships

I hate silos of information without integration. crapcrapcrapcrap. We have a tool that can help our teachers relate testing materials to all sorts of other information. Awesome. The vendor wants to use AD as the authentication. Cool, that's my group. We can do that. We already do that for others. Vendors question, how do you relate your uniques IDs to your SIS. Me, dunno but will find out. Ah crap. I'm not ever ever gonig to publish what they use for a unique in AD. Find a second unique field. Good. So now I have 2 unique fields in AD to match our SIS & BIS and we gotta keep them updated. Sad part is both systems support AD authentication, but when we deployed, AD was the issue. Happens. Now we have to figure out how to put the pieces together so they get updated.