Kuali Rice is an enterprise class, open source middleware suite of tools for institutions seeking cost effective solutions for financial systems, identity management, and more.

Indiana University is a partner with Kuali Rice, Kuali Financial System, and Kuali Coeus. The release marks a major milestone in advancing agile development for the project.

The Kuali Foundation release enables modular functionality that can integrate into other institutional systems.

Kuali Rice 1.0 serves as the core infrastructure for all Kuali applications including Kuali Financial System 3.0, Kuali Coeus 2.0, and Kuali Student.

To find out more about Kuali Rice, check out the project page.

For background on The Kuali Foundation, stop by their page, and maybe even take a test drive of their software.