The City of Cologne, supported by NetCologne IT Services, looks after 261 schools with around 10,000 teachers and 135,000 pupils. By introducing central identity management with Univention Corporate Server, the IT infrastructure was optimized to meet the requirements of a modern learning environment.
User
With the support of NetCologne IT Services, the IT services for schools and daycare centers in the City of Cologne’s Department of Information Processing look after 261 schools with around 10,000 teachers and 135,000 pupils.
Requirements
- Consulting, procurement and strategic development of the school’s IT infrastructure.
- Standardization and quality optimization.
- User maintenance from the school administration software SchILDzentral via a central LDAP.
- Automated software distribution.
- Central management of the entire IT infrastructure, including different server environments at schools and centrally provided services such as email, learning management, web spaces and cloud services.
- Support for bring-your-own-device models and operation of tablets financed by the school authority.
Solution
- Centralized identity management through UCS and UCS@school.
- Integration of the groupware solution Open-Xchange.
- Connection of the mobile device management system Jamf.
- Connection to the Moodle learning platform.
- Integration of Office 365 via single sign-on.
- Provision of a growing number of cloud services via the Univention ID Broker.
