Case Study: Georgia State University saves $1 million with Microsoft Office 365

State University Switches to Microsoft Office 365, Saves $1 Million in Operating Costs

Georgia State University, a higher education institution with 32,000 students, faced the challenge of replacing its end-of-life Novell GroupWise email system. The university needed a modern, cost-effective solution that provided superior multi-platform and mobile device support, increased storage, and better interoperability with its existing Microsoft software deployments.

Microsoft implemented its Office 365 cloud solution for the university's 6,500 faculty and staff. This provided robust email, calendaring, and collaboration tools. The results were significant, including a 50 percent reduction in annual operating costs and an estimated five-year savings of $1 million. Microsoft's solution also simplified IT management, freeing up the equivalent of 2.5 staff members for other projects, and provided users with 25 gigabytes of mailbox storage.

Georgia State University

J.L. Albert

Associate Provost and Chief Information Officer