GROWTH IN NUMBER OF

NEW CUSTOMERS

IN HONG KONG

www.office365.com

History dating back to 1937

The largest government-funded tertiary institution in HK

Rapid expansion in the past two decades

33% increase in the no. of undergraduate students this year due to new 3-3-4 academic structure

32,000 students and 6,500 staff (incl. temporary staff)

Ranked among top 200 universities in the world

A mission to drive greater efficiency

4 legacy email systems incl. Novell GroupWise®

Complex and costly to manage

Difficult to access via mobile devices and smartphones

Limited mailbox size and usability

Lacking third-party support and scalability

A pressing need for a unified communication platform for effective communication

A strategic vision of greater environmental sustainability

Deploy

Evaluate

Security? Compliance?

Deployment? Support?

Rich functionality and familiar user

experience

Secure and Trustworthy cloud

infrastructure

24/7 service and support and expertise

from Microsoft Premier Services Team

Intuitive User Interface and mobile device-support

A single sign-on to a complete suite of connected services

Large mailbox size of 25GB

Perpetual email service after graduating

Saving of over HK$2M per annum

Reduction of server hardware space

Reduced downtime

Reduced administrative time

Freeing up resources for other deserving IT projects

Approx. 30-40% savings achieved in reduction of printing

Microsoft communication and collaboration technology is

part of PolyU’s strategic vision of moving the campus

towards greater sustainability

Secure single sign on from any device

Microsoft compliance to rigorous industry security and

privacy standards

Microsoft is a trusted PolyU partner

1. 6,500 staff to Office 365 Exchange

Online email and calendaring

services, greater collaboration

capabilities, and Outlook’s more

intuitive UI

2. All 32,000 students by the first

quarter of 2013

By first quarter of 2013, all

38,500 staff and students will be

on Office 365

Future migration to Lync Online and

SharePoint Online to meet growing

requirements for knowledge

management and social networking

Through the social networks

sustained by Office 365, PolyU will

become a knowledge-aware

organization, capable of

achievements traditional educational

institutions were never capable of