Client: A Reputed University
Location: Dubai
Company Size: 1000+
Client: A Reputed University
Location: Dubai
Company Size: 1000+
The university staff and students used versions of Microsoft’s Office suite ranging from Office 2003 to Office 2010. It stored documents on a central file server with no versioning capability, and when staff or students needed to collaborate on a document, they emailed it back and forth. The process was clumsy and inefficient and needed a change.
Introduce efficient document sharing and manage Office more easily. The university required a more effective method for document collaboration. The staff and students were using a combination of Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 beta software, and these licenses required rationalizing to make training and support more straightforward.
The experts at De Facto Infotech suggested that the University should switch to Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 suite. Before shifting to Office 365, the University considered Google Apps but decided to stick with the Microsoft Office product that the users were familiar with. The University’s authorities realized that Office 365’s administration capabilities are far better than those available for Google Docs.
Before starting to switch the users from the traditional desktop Office suite to Office 365, the authorities at the University spent a lot time discussing how the suite worked and to allay any misgivings they had about moving to the new system. Microsoft IT solutions partner De Facto assisted the university in the planning, implementation, and migration. The change happened gradually, with most staff and students migrated to Office 365, and the commonly used templates and documents moved from the University’s file server to SharePoint online. SharePoint replaced the old file server and added document management—as well as collaboration capabilities, an intranet and client portals. Those were the things the University was lacking previously. After a few weeks, all the users at the university moved over to Office 365’s office productivity applications, SharePoint Online was up and running, and the users who needed it also had access to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Office 365 migration proved highly beneficial for the university.
Important Takeaways
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