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Virtual Learning Environment( IVLE). This deployment involved Microsoft SQL Server 2012, chosen for its features, cloud readiness and ease of use.
Last month, the group adopted the Microsoft Office 365 communication and collaboration system to support its‘ one single cloud service’ project across its 28 high-end luxury hotels.
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IVLE hosts 90 % of academic modules offered in the college and the portal is accessed by most of its 37,000 students daily. To ensure a top-notch user experience, the college’ s Centre for Information Technology( CIT) had invested many man-hours since 2010 into digging deeper into terabytes of data to understand the user habits of a diverse set of students using IVLE.
Jeffery Tay, Associate Director of CIT, NUS, said:“ In analysing large sets of data about user behaviours, we were faced with the challenge of consolidating different sets of structured and unstructured data; and uncertainties in the accuracy of insights gathered.”
As part of Office 365, Mandarin Oriental implemented Exchange Online for its 5000 staff worldwide. According to Raju Daryanani, vice president of IT infrastructure and information security, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group,“ One of the major benefits of Exchange Online is its support for all the different mobile devices that users have, including BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8 and other smartphone models.”
Supporting employees that work on the go is a typical challenge for most hotels. With a large number roaming staff, there is a strong need for the hotel to keep them in the loop.
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Mandarin Oriental: cloud keeps mobile workers in the loop
The rise of consumerisation of IT in the last few years has led the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group to support mobile communications internally.
“ We want to get our services delivered very, very quickly,” said Daryanani.“ So mobile communication does happen in our hotels. Also, there is a strong need to communicate globally with other hotel staff in the US and Europe as my global role requires communication on a global basis.”
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