Case Study: Bharati Vidyapeeth (India) achieves improved collaboration, reliability and cost savings with Microsoft Office 365

Educational Institution Builds a Community, Brings Collaboration and Reduces Costs

Bharati Vidyapeeth (BVP) is a large Indian educational group with about 4,000 faculty and 80,000 students across 15 campuses and 160 institutes. BVP was relying on an on‑premise open‑source messaging solution that incurred high infrastructure and management costs, frequent downtime, limited mailbox size and collaboration features, and poor mobile access — prompting a move to a cloud‑based common platform.

BVP deployed Microsoft Office 365 for Education, first for students and later for faculty, creating 20,000 student email IDs in a week and reaching roughly 77,000 student users plus 20,000 alumni. The move delivered 25 GB mailboxes and mobile access, ~99.99% uptime, cut maintenance from ~18 to <2 hours/year, and produced annual savings of up to INR 900,000 (~US$18,000), while improving collaboration, security, and reliability.

Bharati Vidyapeeth India

Satyajit Hange

Director