Case Study: University of Münster improves collaborative research workflows with ONLYOFFICE

How ONLYOFFICE and ownCloud Integration in Sciebo Helps Facilitate Research Workflow in Münster University

University of Münster, through its IT center ZIV and the sciebo cloud service, needed a secure, scalable sync-and-share platform for studying, teaching, and research that could also handle sensitive research data and work well with Microsoft Office file formats. The university was looking for a way to support collaborative editing for more than 100,000 registered users while meeting strict GDPR and data-protection requirements.

ONLYOFFICE, integrated with ownCloud in sciebo, provided the online document editing and real-time collaboration capabilities the university needed for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The solution improved data exchange and made collaborative work easier across institutions and guest accounts, while maintaining strong security and compliance standards; the case study notes that user surveys rated the service even better than major cloud providers, though no exact quantitative productivity metric was given.

University of Münster

Holger Angenent

Project Leader