
Resilient Microsoft Office 365 authentication
Resilient Microsoft Office 365 authentication
INDUSTRY / Education
SOLUTION / Workforce, Partner & Customer Identity


CHALLENGE
SOLUTION
Hosted in a Tier-3 UK data center.
RESULT
TECHNOLOGY

CHALLENGE
Ensuring that all university users have reliable access to Office 365, at any time, from anywhere, using any device.
The university has recently made a strategic decision to implement Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud service as an email and collaboration platform for its staff and students. As part of the migration to Office 365, the university required a secure authentication service to allow its users to access Office 365 whilst retaining compatibility with the existing Identity Management solution. Initially the university considered an on-premise solution based upon Microsoft’s ADFS technology, but ultimately realized that a more robust, flexible and scalable service was required.
Jim Nottingham, Chief Information Officer and Director of University IT Services, explains:
“There were several key requirements which drove our selection of an authentication service for Office 365. Firstly, it is essential that our staff and students can access the Office 365 service at any time – with that in mind we needed a resilient service hosted externally to the university, to ensure that authentication would continue to operate independently of the Apple computers and personal BYOD users. We needed a service which had 100% compatibility with Office 365 from all devices, regardless of operating system or location which provided a seamless experience to our users.”
SOLUTION
ProofID’s hosted Office 365 authentication service, built on enterprise federation and SSO product, PingFederate.
RESULTS
Reliable access to Office 365, even in the event of a local ISP outage.
Jim Nottingham adds:
“ProofID’s service ensures that our users have reliable access to Office 365, even if, for example, we had a local ISP outage. Being hosted in the UK is also of prime importance for us from a data sovereignty perspective. We were also impressed by ProofID’s vision around next generation identity management.”
Tom Eggleston, Managing Director of ProofID:
“We are extremely pleased that the University of the Arts chose our Office 365 service. We are looking forward to working together to deliver a seamless, modern experience to the university’s users and to integrate more applications and services. Ping Federate is the market leader for federation and SSO for good reason, and it is fantastic to be able to bring its enterprise feature set to our university customers in the UK.”
Jim Nottingham
Jim Nottingham
Chief Information Officer and Director of University IT Services
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