University of Technology Sydney

With legacy tech no longer making the grade, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) chose to adopt a cloud strategy for the purpose of alleviating constraints, rather than reducing costs.

Business Goals

The computing infrastructure for UTS had been an ongoing challenge. The university knew that it needed to shift to a cloud-based strategy to be more agile and deliver services to its students and prospective students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Financial savings, while desired, weren’t the main driver for a cloud shift — speed was. The university’s Application 2020 Strategy was designed to simplify its infrastructure, and through a phased approach, migrate to a cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment.

Integration Challenges

With a primarily on-premises integration architecture, processes worked but were slow and inefficient. The university had a single-source system but had two different teams taking data out using completely different technology stacks and processes, increasing the risk of duplication and error.

As part of the new cloud strategy, its application integration, business intelligence and data teams were brought together under one management structure to mitigate this duplication.

How Boomi Helped

UTS chose to use Boomi because of its ease of use, as the university believed it would provide the agility and speed it desired. That hope was realized, with the implementation finishing on time and under budget.

UTS believes that the cloud-based integration approach that Boomi provides will help it open its data in new ways, powering innovation across the university.