Bombay College of Pharmacy (BCP) has deployed Microsoft solutions to enhance faculty-student collaboration and data security.
Earlier, BCP students and teachers used personal email addresses on different domains for communication resulting into inefficiency in document collaboration and data loss, apart from facing lack of online identity for the college.
Microsoft has assisted the college for the transformation of its learning environment and operations. BCP students and teachers can access to coursework and research materials. BCP can secure access to these materials and automation of routine workflows, Rajiv Sodhi, general manager – Partner Ecosystem, Microsoft India, said.
The benefits to BCP have included 75 percent reduction in data loss, 50 percent reduction in IT support calls, and 20 percent reduction in email support calls.
Microsoft moved all e-mails to Exchange Online, which is a part of Office 365 for Education. Microsoft simultaneously implemented a hybrid active directory that facilitates a single identity across all online experiences native to the institute – emails, network and internal sites.
Over 50 staff and 500 students started using Windows 10 with Outlook 2016 to store all their data on the cloud with OneDrive for business, and they have a secure internal interface for document sharing with SharePoint Online.
“With the implementation of Microsoft tools, our productivity has increased by 25 percent,” Nitin Maniar, chairman, Governing Body, Bombay College of Pharmacy, said.
Techgyan, a Microsoft partner, has implemented this solution. Techgyan conducted a study and identified critical areas of intervention and helped in modernizing BCP’s infrastructure to a secure end-to-end solution in Microsoft 365, said Suresh Ramani, CEO of Techgyan.
