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UCS is an open-source software solution for identity- and rights management, utilizing open interfaces to ensure high compatibility with services such as Microsoft Active Directory. IT applications and services such as communication and collaboration tools for office work and specialized applications – can be integrated into UCS. Users then have access to these via the online portal. UCS can be scaled up to serve millions of users, is 100% open source software and can be operated in your own data center or via a cloud hosting provider. UCS is the basis for your organization to acheive digital sovereignty by empowering you with control over your data, clear transparent processes and the freedom to choose your own solutions and providers.
UCS@school supplements UCS with important functions optimized for educational institutions such as importing user data from state directory services and pedagogic functions for use in class. Schools are relieved of administrative tasks, support is organized efficiently, and educational services are standardized and furnished professionally.
District and state administrations, such as the Brandenburg state parliament, the Federal Constitutional Court, and city and town authorities use UCS to manage their IT infrastructure and users.
The states Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a multitude of districts, cities and counties, such as Cologne, Hanover, and the district of Kassel use UCS@school as a central directory service for students and teachers, offering educational services such as email, video conference tools and learning management systems via school portals.
A multitude of tools can be downloaded from the Univention App Center and linked into UCS, ranging from document editing, email, direct communication like chat, voice over IP and video conferencing, to communication for editing and sharing documents. In this way, public authorities and educational establishments create an efficient and economical open-source workstation for their staff, fulfilling all the requirements of digital sovereignty and freeing them from dependency on proprietary solutions.
Univention and our partners Dataport, Bechtle AG, Capgemini and the Frauenhofer Institute, are designing and developing an integrated solution stack for office work: the dPhoenix Suite project. This will offer all the functions required for editing documents, communication and collaboration as an open-source solution. It will also include hosting, project consulting, and support from partners.
Realizing large digitalization projects in heterogeneous IT environments which have been built up over time requires a high degree of project management competence, IT knowledge and human resources. Our Professional Services Team has the necessary experience, having carried out dozens of such projects successfully, and comprehensively supports your IT department in realizing complex projects.
The Bremen Senator for Children and Education takes care of the IT for 142 schools in the city state with approx. 80,000 IT users (pupils, teachers and school staff) and 10,500 client systems.
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) with Samba 4 and UCS@school 4.3 (August 2018)
The SyS-C team of the city of Chemnitz maintains the IT of 80 schools in Chemnitz with about 30,000 users and about 5,000 end devices. Besides Microsoft Windows, also Linux operating systems are installed on these devices.
Univention corporate Server (UCS) with integrated Samba 4 and UCS@school as well as the software distribution tool opsi by uib GmbH.
Educational center PZ.BS, ICT Medien
Maintaining 60 school sites with 25,000 pupils and 2,500 teachers and about 3,000 PCs and notebooks.
Since 2010 UCS@school is used on 13 servers and 13 further, connected virtualized UCS servers as the central identity and access management system for the provision of file sharing, groupware services and virtual desktops based on Citrix.
The objective of a pilot project of the city of Hanover, encompassing six schools and 5,500 users, is to create modernized IT groundworks and infrastructure for the digitization of Hanover’s education system. The pilot project, which is scheduled to run until 2018, works on implementing a centralized IT infrastructure management, among other things.
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) with UCS@school provides central access and authorization management for the affiliated schools and web services. Since March 2020, 50 schools in the city with approximately 50,000 users have been in the system. Automatic import mechanisms ensure that the data of users, schools, and classes are synchronized so that all services connected to UCS@school always have the latest user information available. Users can log in to the services themselves with the same access data. The Active Directory connection is made by the AD Connector contained in UCS@school.
In addition, with UCS@school, Hannover provides a web portal with password self-service, through which all users can easily access digital education services.
City of Aachen, 37 primary schools, about 7,500 pupils as users, 11,800 workplaces in education and administration
UCS@school as the central identity and access management system combined with virtualized UCS@school school servers in the data center. Windows clients in those schools with a stable connection to the data center. The city of Aachen is supported by our partner regio it.
The city of Beckum has a total of nine schools: six primary schools and three secondary schools. Two employees take care of the network infrastructure, the telephone systems, the servers and NAS systems as well as the end devices (including mobile device management). There are about 5,200 accounts (4,500 pupils and about 650 teachers).
The School and Pre-Kindergarten IT Services department at the Data Processing Office in Cologne provides services for 261 schools with around 10,000 faculty members and 135,000 students in total with the support of NetCologne.
A UCS-based identity management system managed centrally by the education authority with integration of the groupware Open-Xchange, the mobile device management software Jamf, the learning platform Moodle, and Office 365 via single sign-on
The council of the city of Fulda is responsible for the support and operation of IT for 23 schools with 13,000 students and 1,000 teachers.
The IT department of Neumünster’s city administration is responsible for the IT infrastructure and IT services for 22 general education schools and three vocational schools in that city. These schools include around 1,100 teachers and 15,000 students.
District-free city with 18,800 pupils at 37 schools
Public sector IT service provider for Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with around 3,500 employees at eight locations.
A federal office with 750 employees, 9 locations and 950 workstations with conventional office software and specialist applications.
UCS incl. Samba 4.
The media center maintains 72 schools in the district of Kassel with about 25,000 pupils. It also manages the use of around 6,000 end devices.
Full extension of UCS@school with central services and school servers.
Partial use of UCS@school administration servers in networks which are separated from the educational network.
Over 550 Baden-Württemberg schools, whose school networks and IT services for lessons are supported by the LMZ.
The new version of paedML Linux 6.0, which is based on UCS@school and the Open Source server operating system Univention Corporate Server.
The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) has nine schools, including three vocational schools, three academic high schools and three special schools. Currently, about 5,750 students and 370 teachers at the vocational schools use UCS@school. A team of four IT employees is responsible for maintaining the approximately 1,200 PCs and 350 notebooks.
In Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim there are currently 19 schools at 21 school locations with around 7,200 students, 670 teachers and around 25 clerks.
The district pursue following goals by using UCS@school:
The Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband with about 820 employees is responsible for the drinking water supply and wastewater disposal for 20 cities, 56 municipalities and 9 districts in an area of 7.832 km², which extends from the East Frisian islands to the district of Vechta in Lower Saxony.