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- Avaya Case Study: Fresno Unified School District
- Fresno Unified School District is California's 4th largest school district. The school understood that IP Telephony would help them improve the accessibility of faculty, increase the productivity of IT staff, and better control cost while providing a platform to support enhanced communications applications. As a solution the school chose an...
- Tags: Solution, Telephony, Avaya Inc., Fresno Unified School District, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
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- Student-Centered Technologies Enhance the Learning and Teaching Experience
- Fresno Unified School District FUSD covers a large urban area around the city of Fresno, in central California. FUSD needed to replace its aging IT infrastructure to support effective communication across the school district and to foster student-centered learning. FUSD partnered with Microsoft to enhance classroom technologies, including an initial...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Technology, Fresno Unified School District, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Servers, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2008-07-01
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- Novell Case Study: Windsor Unified School District
- Windsor Unified School District is comprised of seven schools, four of which are California distinguished schools, and has 5,200 students and 250 teachers and staff. Windsor Unified School District had a mixed Microsoft Windows and Macintosh environment that was proving too costly to maintain. Upgrading this combined environment would cost...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Environment, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windsor Unified School District, Open Source, Servers, Hardware
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- School District Graduates to Unified Document Management and Collaboration
- Sixty miles east of San Francisco, Tracy Unified School District is a consolidated educational enterprise. In 2001, Tracy Unified School District implemented Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server on an HP ProLiant server platform. With increasing usage, the school district needed to: improve communication and collaboration, expedite educational document management, consolidate servers,...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, CommVault Systems Inc., Groupware, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Finance, Online Communications, Hardware
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- Cisco Case Study: Covina-Valley Unified School District
- Covina-Valley Unified School District CVUSD is a large, suburban district located in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. From an IT perspective, the district was hampered by separate existing Private Branch Exchange PBX systems at each school. These systems weren't even common across high school or across elementary. Each...
- Tags: District, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
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- Novell Case Study: Sacramento City Unified School District
- Sacramento City Unified School District SCUSD is among the 10 largest school districts in California. The district began searching for a portal solution to deliver information electronically to administrators, teachers and staff. The district considered several platforms, including Microsoft .NET, but selected Novell exteNd after seeing a demonstration at a...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Portals, Web Technology, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Connecting a Rural School District: Cisco Unified Communications Benefits Fort Bragg
- With Cisco Unified Communications, Fort Bragg Unified School District Accesses Converged Voice, Data and Video on an IP Network.
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2006-08-29
- Arlington Independent School District Deploys Unified Communications to Cost-Effectively Enhance School Safety
- The Arlington Independent School District AISD is the ninth largest school district in Texas, with 74 school campuses and 63,000 students. Arlington Independent School District ISD wanted to ensure effective emergency communication and cost-effectively provide telephone coverage for every classroom. The challenge was to reduce communications operating costs. As a...
- Tags: Phone, School District, Unified Communications, Cisco Systems Inc., Arlington Independent School District, Telecom & Utilities
- Case studies 2007-10-10
- School District Improves Communications, Saves Costs With Unified Messaging
- The more than 1,600 employees at Tracy Unified School District in northern California rely on e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and faxes to communicate with each other, vendors, and parents. However, the district wanted a solution that would provide more flexible ways for users to communicate while eliminating high-cost phone...
- Tags: Unified Messaging, Microsoft Exchange Server, School District, VOIP, E-mail Servers, Telephony, Groupware, Telecommunications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-10-06
- Thin Clients Bring Computing to Classrooms
- Snowflake Unified School District #5 didn't have enough staff to maintain 700 computers. They couldn't expand to achieve a 2:1 student-to-computer ratio in their district. Given the rural location, they couldn't hire people. Snowflake Unified School District #5 switched to thin-client computing. This reduced their IT budget by 20 percent...
- Tags: Thin Client, Computing, Wyse Technology Inc., Thin Clients, Hardware
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- California High School Uses Video to Improve Campus Security
- The Garden Grove Unified School District USD in California has found one way to improve campus safety. Garden Grove Unified School District wanted to increase safety for students and staff. The challenge was to help administrators and the school security officer respond effectively to incidents and reduce graffiti, vandalism, and...
- Tags: Security, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Case studies 2005-12-01
- San Diego Unified School District Saves $1 Million Per Year Stopping Over Payments
- The second largest urban school district in California and eighth largest in the nation, San Diego Unified School District SDUSD sought to replace its many archaic disparate systems. The challenge was to update the architecture from several home-grown, mainframe systems to one modern, web-based business system, in order to be...
- Tags: Payment, Mainframes, Financial Management, Human Capital, Business Intelligence, Servers, Hardware, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- School District Learns E-Mail Security Can Do More, Cost Less, and Be Easier to Use
- The Tracy Unified School District wanted e-mail security that was as easy to implement and manage as it was reliable. That's what it has with Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server. The solution offers more scanning engines and options than the McAfee software the district formerly used, is boosting uptime,...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, E-mail Security, Microsoft Corp., School District, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Security, Online Communications, Software
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- School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs
- Tracy Unified School District in northern California wanted to streamline the work involved in daily backups and file recoveries. The small IT staff spent an inordinate amount of time backing up e-mail messages and documents every day for the district's 22 schools and could spend days recovering accidentally deleted files...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Backup System, School District, Backups
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Cisco Partner Matrix Integration Controls Spiraling Communications Costs; Unifies Voice and Data for Scott County School District
- Scott County School District #2 is located in Scottsburg, Indiana. Over the years phone systems were added and upgraded as needed, and this has resulted in multiple legacy systems and communications costs that the director of technology for the school district describes as "Out of control." The director reached out...
- Tags: Partnership, Voice, Cisco Systems Inc., Director
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- School District Offers Distance Learning and Improves Efficiency
- The sixth largest school district in the United States, the Broward County School District's primary goal was to enhance educational learning opportunities by supplementing voice conferencing with Web collaboration. Another goal was to extend the use of voice conferencing to parent-teacher conferences and staff meetings, including in-service training. The Broward...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Web-based Collaboration, School District, Voice, Cisco Systems Inc., Telecommunications
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Township HS District 214 Deploys IP, Wireless to Six High Schools for Big Productivity and Financial Gains
- Its successful large Cisco Unified Communications deployments, along with years of IP technology experience, won Cisco Gold Certified Partner Sentinel Technologies a contract with Township High School District 214, located outside Chicago. The district's director of technology wanted to get rid of its 10-year-old Centrex system, and leasing a new...
- Tags: District, IPWireless, Financial, Cisco Systems Inc.
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- Lincoln Unified School District Reaps Wireless Telephone Benefits
- Lincoln Unified School District Lincoln USD is situated in Stockton, California. The principal typically spends her school day juggling administrative and student issues. At the Sture Larsson High School and McCandless Center, two high schools where the principal shares her time, she has to stay in constant communication with administrators,...
- Tags: SpectraLink Corp., Wireless, Telecommunications
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- Sandy Hill School District Case Study
- Founded in 1894, Sandy Hill School District SHSD is the largest public school district in the state of Anywhere, with a district population of 482,618 and a student population of 84,169. The Sandy Hill School District Case Study was prepared for use in the 2004 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Commerce, Sandy Hill School District Case Study
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- Cisco Case Study: Mansfield Independent School District (MISD)
- Mansfield Independent School District MISD is one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas. The district had nearly 1,000 Centrex lines in service, with average monthly recurring expenses of US$15.50 per line. Moves, Adds, or Changes MACs, and any phone system repair and maintenance work required service calls to...
- Tags: Phone, Cisco Systems Inc., Mansfield Independent School District
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