Managing door access at the College of Engineering used to be a complex and time-consuming endeavor involving both technical and administrative staff. Even without its new annex, the college had 177 doors with electronic access control. The Iowa One Cards of nearly 3,000 students, faculty, and staff had to be manually provisioned to swipe into the appropriate classrooms, labs, conference rooms, and offices. 

The card-provisioning process became much smoother and more efficient in the past year thanks to a door-access automation initiative—a sub-project of the OneIT Identity Management Project.

Nearly all UI websites are now on the same content-management system, Drupal—and using common technology yields a host of benefits, like cost savings, greater expertise, and sharing custom modules.

The switch to a tiny but mighty compute stick is saving departments time, money and hassle when it comes to powering digital signage across campus.

Benefits of the Office 365 upgrade include a 50 times larger email storage capacity — nearly eliminating the need to delete messages to create inbox space — and one terabyte of cloud file storage through OneDrive so employees can access files from anywhere, sync across all devices, and share files and folders with co-workers.