Case Study: University of Chicago achieves rapid, secure knowledge sharing and streamlined collaboration with PBWorks

University of Chicago - Customer Case Study

The University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC) needed a fast, secure way to share information with clients, offsite editors and short-term contractors while its IT team was still rolling out SharePoint. Teams were struggling to collaborate across networks and platforms without straining IT or exposing proprietary data.

NORC adopted PBworks as an immediate solution, starting with the free version and upgrading for added security and features. The PBworks workspace became a centralized intranet and knowledge hub—housing templates, assignments, to‑do lists, links and a shared calendar—while allowing NORC staff to manage user access for freelancers and clients and use powerful search to find information quickly. The result was faster collaboration, reduced IT burden and rapid adoption that NORC expects to continue growing.

The University of Chicago

Patricia Cloud

National Opinion Research Center