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Sample WebSphere Portal Education Case Studies
German Sports University
San Francisco State
Cardiff University
Universiti Putra Malaysia University of London
Singapore Polytechnic
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Other WebSphere Portal Education Sites
Egyptian E-Learning University Swedish School of Textiles University of Palacky Open Universities
MicroMash Bar Review University of Boras Tecnologico de Monterrey
EdFundFoundation for Student Life Odette School of Business Spring Arbor University
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Common Implementation Elements
� Create a compelling online experience� For students & alumni – workspace for “digital natives”
� For faculty & employees – common access to critical functions
� Prospective students – “sticky” and effective recruiting tool
� Provide a personalized delivery platform� Capable of delivering integrated marketing messages
� Highly collaborative
� Rich in web and multimedia content
� An online learning delivery vehicle
� Built to provide access to back end data & transactional systems
� Secure, scalable, searchable, highly-accessible, multi-language
� Look to the future� Mobile capable
� Analytics-ready
� Able to be integrated with online learning systems
� Pre-integrated with internet-wide social networks
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Cardiff UniversityWales – 27,000 students & 6,000 staff
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Primary Cardiff Goal
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MWE Student Perspective
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Deutsche Sporthochschule Koln(German Sports University Cologne)German Sports University, Cologne, Germany – 6,000 students
� Germany’s largest center of teaching and research in physical
education and sport science
� Approximately 6,000 students, including 500 foreign students
� 5 gold medals in Beijing 2008
� More than 30 partnerships
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WebSphere Portal / Web Content Management –A Competitive Advantage in Sports� Easy role-based access
� One Web 2.0 portal for all interested parties (students, employees, partners)
� Easy administration
� Empower business users to publish content
� Remove web master bottleneck
� Corporate identity acrosscomplete web site
� Marketing
� Portal as marketing platform
� Aligned with print marketing
� Increase inter-/national awareness
� User self-service
� User account management
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Quickr services to facilitate learning and collaboration
� Online collaboration
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San Francisco State San Francisco, California, US – 30,000 students & 4,000 faculty
� 30,000 students—many of
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� 4,000 faculty & staff
� Large alumni population
� Continuous stream of
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Organization Requirements� Extend the reach of campus borders to enable 50,000 users to instantly
communicate & collaborate
� Leverage current university applications, i.e. Oracle, PeopleSoft
Solution� Self provision content, communication and collaboration services based on
university processes and roles
� Process maps and user roles provided by IBM Global Technology Services consultants
� Lotus, Tivoli, and WebSphere Portal software, pSeries hardware
� Telephony & video not initial driver but is now part of next steps
Customer Value� Improves campus experience for students and faculty
� Differentiation from other universities
� Simplified IT system administration through automation
� Individual-centric porlets simplify & personalize users access to people, data, applications within collaborative ecosystem
� Supports multiple device types, browsers, public IM networks—90% of community connect via laptops & mobile devices
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Universiti Putra MalaysiaKuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 29,000 students & 2,000 faculty
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Products Used
� Unified Communications and Collaboration
� By providing users with a single, integrated experience across both business applications and communications and collaboration tools,
� Lotus Connections
� Connections is the first social software designed for business and empowers customers to be more innovative and execute more quickly using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners, and customers. Blogs and Wikis Solutions.
� Enterprise E-Forms Solutions
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� Enterprise Portal and Dashboard Accelerators
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