Established in 2004, the University of the Arts London is Europe’s largest specialist arts and design university, formed of six colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. The university has around 19,000 students from over 100 countries, and more than 3,500 staff. Additionally, the university offers many short courses, attended by more than 20,000 students each year.
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 u