"Throughout the portal's evolution, HP Services has been on hand to adapt the software to the specific needs of learning and teaching. It has also done an outstanding job of implementing user management functionality through the use of Web services."
-- Daniel Weiler, MySchool! Project Manager, Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de laFormation Professionnelle et des Sports, Luxembourg |
Company profile Industry sector: Government Name: Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de la Formation Professionnelle et des Sports Headquarters: Luxembourg Telephone: +352 333 420 352 URL: www.men.lu
Challenge
- Pursue the goals of the European Schoolnet initiative to make all pupils digitally literate.
- Implement a secure Web portal for use by all members of the Luxembourg educational community.
- Over time, provide a more personalised experience and support the needs of individual schools to maintain their own content and applications.
Solution components
- Engage HP Services as an end-toend partner, with responsibility for vision, concept, architecture design, implementation and ongoing support.
- Base the portal infrastructure on the Plumtree Portal, customised for educational use by HP.
Results and benefits
- MySchool! is now Europe's largest public education portal, accessible to 46,000 users.
- Schools and others can access reliable, relevant information, applications and other educational resources.
- The portal acts as a communications infrastructure, within which schools can securely develop their own intranet maintain Web content easily, even if they have no relevant experience.
- Pupils and others can publish and maintain Web content easily, even if they have no relevant experience.
Why HP?
- End-to-end partner.
- Understanding of customer needs.
- Ability to customise software for educational use.
- Expertise in user management technology.
Hardware
- 20 X Compaq ProLiant DL360 servers
Software
- Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0
- Plumtree Content Server
- Plumtree Collaboration Server
- Plumltree Studio Server
- HP OpenView
HP Services
- Vision, concept and specification of the solution
- Architecture design
- Application development
- Software customisation
- Implementation
- Project management
- Out tasking
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