As students and staff increasingly work off campus, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) wanted to ensure that they could enjoy smooth and fast access to all their documents while keeping administration workload low and maintaining high data security standards.

More and more students across five campuses at CUAS study part­time, juggling work and studies. CUAS also offers flexible working arrangements to staff—leading to growing numbers of distance workers.

To minimize administration overhead and maximize security, CUAS aimed to leverage existing user directories and network folders, in order to offer a seamless experience on campus and off campus.

CUAS had searched for a solution that would allow simple access to files and directories from anywhere, without giving up control. When a team at CUAS found themselves introduced to Filr from OpenText through a research project at another university, they asked the CUAS IT team to evaluate the solution—and Filr Advanced turned out to be exactly what CUAS needed.

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