University Creates Core Infrastructure Plan to Enhance Productivity and Collaboration

Overview

Tilburg University serves 12,000 students in the southern part of the Netherlands, with programs in the social sciences and humanities. Though its Novell file, print, mail, and directory infrastructure had served the university for 18 years, the students and staff wanted better mobility and collaboration support in an integrated environment. The IT staff jettisoned its Novell business productivity infrastructure and is replacing it with Microsoft programs to gain not only the desired integration, but to better support university policy of buying off-the-shelf applications. Tilburg University worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Winvision to create a three-year roadmap for deploying the new infrastructure, which will enable the IT staff to easily integrate business productivity functions for increased user productivity, and to respond more quickly to user needs.