When Patrick Pow, Vice Chancellor for Information
Technology at UW Tacoma, was searching for a solution
to email and calendaring challenges on his campus, he
considered several choices. Finally, UW Tacoma chose
Office 365 because it met the campus' communication
and compliance needs.
"Most users on my campus have not been happy with
previous calendaring and email systems," said Pow, who
worked with UW-IT to implement cloud-based Office 365.
"Early on, we realized that using a tri-campus scheduling
system was vitally important to our success."
Pow said Office 365's email and calendaring system works
best for his campus because it is HIPAA aligned and
FERPA compliant. Many other popular products are not.
The Office 365 project was launched by UW-IT to provide
a more cost-effective, centrally hosted email and
calendaring service for all three UW campuses through
the UW Exchange Online service. The most recent phase
involved migrating users from a local Exchange email
and calendaring system to UW Exchange Online, which
includes 50GB of storage. The next phase will make UW
Exchange Online available to anyone who wants to use it,
all supported by the Technology Recharge Fee.
"Most administrators and staff members in Tacoma
are really happy with Exchange email and Outlook
calendaring," Pow said, "and they report improved
teamwork and productivity."
TOGETHER WE WILL
Office 365: Cloud-based tools enhance teamwork, productivity
MORE INFO: uw.edu/itconnect/connect/email/uw-exchange | uw.edu/itconnect/connect/email/google-apps | uw.edu/uwit/EA |
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