Customer case study: University of Canterbury
The customer:
The University of Canterbury (UC) is one of New Zealand’s largest and fastest-growing tertiary education providers.
In 2021, UC embarked on an ambitious Digital Transformation programme to modernise the technology for most of the business unit (faculties). UC had a small architecture practice, mostly contractors and little architectural or delivery maturity. In 2022 Cyma was engaged to help UC with this project.
Engagements:
Business projects: Learning portal, Research Management, Facilities Management, Curriculum Management, CRM, Digital Screen campus, Library system, Chatbots AI
Enterprise projects/initiatives: Enterprise project objective mapping, Cloud enablement, Azure Landing Zone, Integration Reference Architectures, Enterprise APIs, Identity Access Management, End-user Device strategy, AV strategy.
Benefits for the customer:
Learning platform to enable the delivery of non-degree online short-courses (eg: business staff development) to enable new revenue streams
A digital screen (film and audio) campus that shares capacity for both education and commercial use models which is quite unique globally
Student mobile application that is also driving the establishment and use of enterprise services (eg: scheduling, CRM, data hub) which can be used for a future consolidated student portal
Enterprise technology capabilities to increase reuse, project speed to market, and reduce overall project risks and costs
Project deliverables:
Architecture Principles
User Journeys
Architecture Practice Maturity advancement
Target State Identity & Access Management
