Xythos Education Customers
Many academic institutions have successfully deployed Xythos' Enterprise Document Management & Digital Locker Suites.
- Abilene Christian University
- Azabu University
- + Baylor University
- Xythos-powered BearSpace is a web-based file sharing system launched by the Electronic Library Client Services and Information Technology Services at Baylor University. BearSpace provides a storage space for users to access and share documents and files with users, both inside and outside of the Baylor community. Through BearSpace, students, faculty and staff have one place to put files and documents, accessible from anywhere on the Internet, instead of multiple file locations, such as personal computers and those on campus.
- Berkeley Unified School District
- + Boston College
- Boston College wanted to provide its faculty, staff and students with a web-based file file-sharing environment and had the following requirements for a solution:
- Provide a secure environment to access and share sensitive data from any location
- Enable access to files from multi-platform clients (e.g. via WebDAV)
- Provide capabilities to share files with BC and non-BC people for collaborative purposes
- Have versioning, locking and logging capabilities
- Give users the ability to control access- both individual and role-based
- Provide an alternative to emailing files
- Provide a way to back-up important documents
Xythos was rolled out as a pilot in September 2003, and then released to faculty and staff in January 2004. In June 2004, students were given 100 MB of storage on Xythos-powered myFiles. There are currently 17,000 users of myFiles, with over one million files stored.
- Bowling Green State University
- Brigham Young University Hawaii
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
- Cal Poly Pomona
- Cal State Long Beach
- Cal State Los Angeles
- Charlotte School of Law
- City University of New York (CUNY)
- Claremont Graduate University
- Cleveland State University
- The College of William and Mary
- Concordia University
- CUNY Graduate Center
- Eastern Senior High School
- Eastern Illinois University
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Florida Coastal School of Law
- Franklin Road Academy
- Fordham University
- Fuller Theological Seminary
- George Fox University
- Gordon College
- Grossmont Union High School District
- Harvard University
- Indiana State University
- + Johns Hopkins University
- Kauai Community College
- A leading international authority on public health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) carries out its mission in research facilities and educational centers located in 40 countries. More than 1,500 students and 1,000 faculty work together every day in this global effort, managing 25 research initiatives including bio-terrorism detection, disease prevention, and healthcare management.
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- Lewis & Clark College
- Longwood University
- Louisiana State University
- Loyola Marymount University
- Maui High Performance Computing Center
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Meredith College
- Middle Tennessee State University
- MIT Lincoln Labs
- Montgomery Community College
- + Nevada Joint Union High School District
- The IT team at the Nevada Joint Union High School District (NJUHSD) supports three high schools in the district, serving approximately 5,000 students, teachers and administrators. Previously, students in the district would use floppy disks to store their homework, term papers and projects, especially as teachers were assigning homework in PowerPoint and other multimedia methods. Floppy disks would get easily
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- New York University
- + Northeastern University
- Northeastern University is a student-centered, practice-oriented national research university with a mobile and distributed global campus community of over 50,000 students, faculty, and staff. As the leading co-op school in the country, several thousand of the University's students are dispersed around the world at varied workstations and time zones.
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- + Northwestern University
- "Depot" is Northwestern's branded implementation of the Xythos Digital Locker. Depot provides a secure, central location that allows faculty and their students to store and share important documents and files such as syllabi, homework, notes, papers, theses, dissertations, graphics, and any other type of digital information.
- Oakland University
- Occidental College
- + Pace University
- Before the first phase of its Xythos implementation, Pace had a large number of the school's 2,500 faculty and administrators carrying electronic files on disk from one location to another. There was no way for users to remotely access and share files on the campus network. With the Xythos Digital Locker in place, users can now access their files from anywhere - their home office, a café or one of seven Pace campuses.
- + Pepperdine University
- Before Xythos, much of Pepperdine University's content was spread out over several different repositories, in both paper and digital format, leaving it difficult for administrators and faculty to access or search for needed content. Pepperdine needed a way to centralize its' institutional content and protect valuable documents containing the University's intellectual property. Administrators also wanted a central means of capturing procedural information related to various business processes to better catalog best practices and faculty wanted access to convenient digital portfolios for storing and managing research material.
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- Pittsburgh State University
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Queen's University
- Rockefeller University
- Roosevelt University
- Salve Regina University
- Santa Barbara City College
- School Board of Miami-Dade County
- Southern Methodist University
- Showa Pharmaceutical University
- St. Agnes Academy
- St. Xavier University
- SUNY College at Old Westbury
- Texas A&M University
- Texas State University
- The New School
- Touro College
- Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology
- Tokyo National College of Technology
- Tulane University
- UC Berkeley
- + UC Irvine
- The University of California, Irvine introduced its Xythos-based system named WebFiles to address Xythos to address the security problems related to sending email file attachments. "For us, it's all about secure collaboration. Faculty rarely conduct research on their own! We consider WebFiles to be a key service that we offer to researchers and staff at the University of California, Irvine. We were able to make the service available to 12,000 faculty, staff and graduate students using out-of-the-box functionality. We rely on WebFiles to preserve and protect our valuable research, enabling us to securely share the fruits of our endeavors with peers at UCI and collaborators worldwide," stated E. Scott Menter, Director of Infrastructure Services for Network and Academic Computing Services at the University.
- UC Los Angeles
- UC Riverside
- UC Santa Barbara
- University of Iowa
- + University of Calgary
- University of Chicago
- The University of Calgary (UC) Faculty of Medicine's Core DNA and Protein Services lab handles about 200 samples a day in support of roughly 600 university and commercial customers. Users of UC's DNA sequencing and DNA/RNA synthesis services previously relied on numerous ways to get test data back. Results for students and university researchers were posted to an FTP server where the researchers could simply download the files associated with an analysis job. If a researcher had trouble FTP-ing files, a UC staffer would help the person perform the FTP or simply e-mail the results directly to the researcher. This contrasted with practices required by some commercial customers who were concerned about data security, and wanted their results burned to a CD and couriered to them.
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- + University of Colorado at Boulder
- The University of Colorado at Boulder provides an on-line web document storage system for use to students called Xythos WebFile Server. The system allows students and faculty to securely store files on the web for retrieval from any computer able to access the Internet. This is a benefit to you because you can avoid using floppy disks, CD-ROMS, and USB flash drives to move files from campus to home and back.
- University of Hawaii at Honolulu
- University of Illinois, Springield
- + University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- In Fall 2003, the University of Illinois deployed Xythos-powered NetFiles, a web-based file storage system for students and faculty. NetFiles was offered as a subscription service free of charge to students, faculty and staff on the Urbana-Champaign campus. The intent behind the subscription service was that users had to sign up for the service rather than auto provisioning an account for everyone to indicate the level of interest in NetFiles.
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- + University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- The IT team at the University of Massachusetts, led by David Powicki, Assistant Director of Network Services, looked for a solution that was designed, from the beginning, to securely manage and store digital content and to facilitate the collaboration and learning that UMass desired. Unlike the University's existing system that was based on WindowsT file sharing and limited to providing network access only on campus (due to security concerns), the new solution had to provide levels of access and storage that the university had previously not achieved - and do so from anywhere.
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- + University of Memphis
- "One of the most powerful means of learning on a college campus is through collaboration," explained Dr. Jim Penrod, CIO at the University of Memphis. "Students discuss course material with other students. Faculty members interact with students and discuss research with other faculty." The Advanced Learning Center within the FedEx Technology Institute at the University of Memphis has begun supporting the benefits of academic collaboration through the Internet using the Xythos WebFile Server and Xythos Drive. Sandy Schaeffer, associate director for the Advanced Learning Center adds that, "Xythos makes it possible to provide a secure way for students to access and share their private files from anywhere through a web browser."
- +University of Michigan at AnnArbor
- The IT team at the Medical School of University of Michigan needed a web-based solution for accessing and managing worldwide research proposals through their internal review process. Every modification and approval needed to be tracked to meet necessary compliance requirements; and they needed features like file versioning and logging are used to ensure the accountability of the research process. After an extensive evaluation process, the IT team decided to deploy Xythos Enterprise Document Manager.
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- University of Minnesota
- University of Montreal
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School
- University of San Francisco
- University of Scranton
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at Arlington
- + University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Dallas
- In 2002, Vice President at the University of Texas, Dan Updegrove, charged his technical staff with creating a simpler, more intuitive, more ubiquitous way to provide students with disk allocation that could be used to store files and publish personal web pages. In addition, the executive charge mandated that the service be integrated with existing campus authentication (EID), have quota and bandwidth management, enable file sharing with users outside the UT domain, and utilize WebDAV. What made this initiative different from previous ITS offerings was the emphasis on large-scale convenience - the service needed to have drag-and-drop functionality, cross-platform independence, feature-rich web interface, and the ability to work on both Mac and Windows.
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- University of Texas at El Paso
- University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- University of Texas at Tyler
- University of the Redlands
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- + University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- University of Wisconsin-Osh Kosh
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls
- The Xythos Enterprise Document Manager 5.0 has also been selected by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to help meet its goals as a major research university and address the diverse needs of Wisconsin's largest metropolitan area by supporting key initiatives including the expansion and growth of research. UWM is developing strategic partnerships and collaborations with the public, nonprofit and private sectors and is supporting partnerships across the university. According to Interim Chief Information Officer Bruce Maas, Xythos is a key part of the infrastructure necessary to support faculty needs associated with collaborative research activities. University of Wisconsin-Stout
- Universiti Putra Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia
- Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
- Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Vassar College
- Wesleyan University
- On a fairly regular basis, the IT Team at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) would receive a call from a very distressed graduate student whose dissertation had been on a floppy that no longer worked - or a CD that had been corrupted. Typically, the students had no backup, and while the IT staff did whatever they could to recover the missing data, unfortunately they were not successful in every instance. VCU needed was a safer, centralized file access and storage solution.
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- Whitman College
- Yale University