All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will deploy Microsoft Live@edu over the next three months in more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India, expanding students’ access to enhanced technical education and collaboration.
Live@edu is a cloud suite for education, with more than 22 million people using the service worldwide, claims Microsoft.
The hosted communication and collaboration service will offer email, Microsoft Office Web Apps, instant messaging and storage to AICTE’s more than 7 million students and nearly 500,000 faculty members, for a total reach of 7.5 million users.
AICTE is also planning to deploy Microsoft Office 365 for education, providing access to Microsoft Exchange Online email and calendar, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online and Microsoft Office Professional as the technical infrastructure to support member colleges and institutes.
The education council has chosen Microsoft’s cloud services for education as the system offers enhanced interoperation with the entire Microsoft product portfolio as well as considering Microsoft’s ability to deploy a system across geographically distributed locations without adding significantly to the institutions’ IT management costs or complexity.
