Xythos in Education
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Xythos Software is the leading developer of Secure Document Management and Collaboration software for academic and research institutions. Designed for the education market, Xythos Administrative and Research Document Management Software Solutions have become the first choice among K-12 schools, colleges and universities which need to safely store and publish their content, collaborate on research projects and reduce administrative costs.
Xythos technology is being used together with learning management systems and as a stand alone solution for administrative and research document management, enabling education institutions to securely collaborate and protect their valuable institutional content.
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Connects Faculty and Students to Their Content From Anywhere
Through Xythos, educational institutions can provide individual storage area networks for their students and faculty to safely access from any Internet location, on or off campus. Within those storage areas, users can create separate folders with unique access rights for their class work, personal files and even their own web sites. Xythos allows administrators to set bandwidth and quota controls for individual directories helping to maximize system performance. Directory service integration and support for common transports encryption methods help ensure content security beyond the firewall.
"We chose Xythos to provide a convenient, university-wide file sharing solution that would also help better protect all of our user's data-no matter what kind of computer they are using."Rick Mickool, Northeastern University
Accelerates Campus-Wide Adoption through Intuitive Interface
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Faculty and administrators are typically one of the more technology-averse groups on campus, often requesting document management solutions that would allow them to access files directly from within applications they already know and use. Xythos permits any application to access and share files using the same file "Open" and "Save" commands faculty and administrators are familiar with. The Xythos Drive also offers familiar Windows Explorer and application-level file sharing features, eliminating the need for costly training and rapidly accelerating campus-wide adoption.
Improves Institutional Content Security
A primary requirement for the successful introduction of campus-wide file sharing solutions is the system's ability to safely protect the rights of different types of content while delivering the cost-saving and ease-of-use benefits of a single, comprehensive system. This type of solution ensures that only specified users can view, access, and change content based upon who they are. Xythos delivers an unsurpassed level of file access control, permitting administrative, classroom, research, and individual directories to each have unique access controls. File access controls can be administered independently, reducing the burden on IT.
Easily Integrates Collaborative Functionality Into E-Learning Systems
Xythos can be configured to be a stand-alone course management system or it can be deployed as a complement to existing course management applications. With its extensive sample code, out-of-the-box JSR 168 portlets and API documentation, developers can easily modify Xythos features and embed document management and collaborative functionality within many of their own campus applications.
Provides Offline Data Protection and Synchronization for Field Research
It is often necessary for researchers to collect information in the field before they can update other members of their team. With the Xythos Drive, researchers can update files offline and have them automatically synchronized the next time they connect. The Xythos Drive can also turn any Windows desktop software into a collaborative application with its advanced file management features; its online file backup makes the Xythos Drive ideal for protecting any type of content stored on institutional laptops or other client systems.