Case Study: North-West University improves secure document collaboration with ONLYOFFICE and Nextcloud

North-West University enables collaboration for 6,500 users with ONLYOFFICE

North-West University, a large South African university with over 70,000 students, required a secure platform for data exchange and document collaboration. Their primary challenge was handling sensitive research data that needed to remain under the university's strict control due to legislation, making self-hosted solutions from vendor ONLYOFFICE a priority.

The solution implemented by ONLYOFFICE, integrated with Nextcloud, provided a familiar Microsoft-like interface for collaborative editing, reviewing, and real-time document chat. This resulted in high user satisfaction among the 6500 users with access, enabling secure and instantaneous collaboration across the university's three campuses for both administrative and research work.

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