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Engine Deployment Options
John Mensel | 18 Jul 2017 | Permalink
We’re here to help when it comes to playing eLearning standard-based content in your platform. Whether you prefer to manage hosting on your own, use a SaaS approach or have us manage hosting of Engine on your behalf, we’ve got you covered.
SCORM Engine is a web service available via a REST API that can be deployed in a few different flavors: an on-premise SCORM Engine integration that you set up, a Managed Hosted implementation of SCORM Engine and a fully hosted option (aka SCORM Cloud) that you integrate with via an API. How you access Engine will vary depending on your implementation and it will determine which features are available to you. So, here’s a guide to help you figure out which one is best for you.
| SCORM Engine | Managed Hosted SCORM Engine |
SCORM Cloud API | |
| Deployment |
Locally installed |
Hosted by Rustici Software |
Hosted by Rustici Software |
| Initial License Fee | $30,000 and up | $33,500 and up for initial license and setup fee |
None |
| Application Environment Investment and Ongoing Costs |
Your team’s setup time, server costs and the ongoing server management and maintenance |
$30,000+ annually and cost for server deployment (varies based on the size of the environment) |
Included |
| Setup Time for Engine Application Deployment | Varies based on your developers’ time and availability | 1-2 business days | None |
| Infrastructure Needed to Support Application | Application Server Windows or Linux (.NET/IIS, Tomcat); Database Server (PostgreSql, mysql, Microsoft sql server, Oracle) | N/A | N/A |
| Libraries Available |
.NET, Java , PHP or your own REST client |
.NET, Java, PHP or your own REST client | .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby |
| Content Distribution Network |
Cloudfront support is included natively and must be set up* |
Yes, Cloudfront support included |
Yes, Cloudfront support included |
| Service Level Agreement (SLA) |
N/A |
Yes, 99.95% |
No guaranteed SLAs but we do an awesome job |
| Offline Player Extension |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Built-In Reporting |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Conformant LRS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes and it’s free |
*We typically use Amazon Web Services’ Cloudfront but if you have different CDN needs we’d want to go over those needs with you.
