The Juilliard School
About the Client
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.
Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in global performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through The Tianjin Juilliard School and K-12 educational curricula.
Challenge
Due to limited internal IT skillsets to support the system, and difficult to hire Colleague®/Unix/Linux/Unidata skillsets, the end users were facing multiple issues at the school.
In addition to this, there was no disaster recovery and business continuity plan for the school’s most critical environment, which was operating on a legacy and unsupported platform.
Hence, the Juilliard School desired a one-stop shop to host, manage, and support the Colleague® platform.
Solution
After a rigorous evaluation, the school members took a decisive action to move the needle on Colleague® support and they chose OculusIT.
- 24×7 end user support on ERP at Julliard including Colleague® and WebAdvisor®.
- 24×7 end user support on IT applications.
- Move to Oracle® Cloud via OculusIT
With OculusIT, Juilliard able to enhance the overall Colleague® cloud hosting, manage, and support experience and streamline their processes.
Major Success
- Reduced response time to resolve issues logged by end users into OculusIT’s 24×7 service desk.
- Helped in increasing student engagement.
- Guaranteed uptime within contractual SLAs
- Improved access to data.
Cost optimization and lowering total cost of ownership