Identity management for education

At Oxford Computer Group, we understand the unique identity management challenges educational institutions face. With decades of experience, we’ve become a trusted partner to more than 200 academic organizations in the UK, Europe, and North America, helping them solve these challenges with tailored identity solutions that ensure security, efficiency, and seamless user experiences.

From empowering academic institutions to maximize cloud investments to ensuring that key legacy systems run smoothly and securely, we have unrivalled knowledge of the needs and challenges of the education sector.

We offer a comprehensive range of identity solutions and services to enable educational organizations to be efficient, secure, and compliant.

Our identity consultants have a deep understanding of the education sector’s challenges and can work with you based on your needs, resources, and budget.

From expert advice for a specific problem, help implementing a new system, migrating to the cloud, long-term support, or training, our experts can help.

“Oxford Computer Group’s deep understanding of the unique needs of higher education makes them an invaluable resource, especially around MIM. We highly recommend their expert identity and cloud solutions.“

Sohail, Applications Services Manager

We were impressed with Oxford Computer Group’s expert and cost-effective management and optimisation of our systems over the last year, such that we were more than happy to renew our support contract. Their understanding of the needs of higher education organisations is impressive, and we highly recommend their services.

BilalIT Infrastructure Manager at Middlesex University

Our solutions are simple, scalable, and cost effective

Recent examples of our work for academic organizations include:

  • A comprehensive Microsoft Entra Identity Governance solution for a major university
  • Seamless re-platforming of a MIM implementation
  • High-level design and implementation of a series of work packages to explore online student study with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams
  • Design and implementation of a project to merge and synchronize student accounts from multiple AD domains/forests to Microsoft Entra ID
  • Migration of the MIM portal and synchronization engine solution to cloud-based Identity Panel Suite for a large school group
  • Fixed-price ‘all-you-can-eat’ support contracts providing monthly health checks, proactive maintenance, rapid incident response, and minor changes
  • Assistance with large-scale student onboarding

Find out more:

  • Read this article to find out how we have worked with educational organizations
  • Watch our webinar ‘Future-proofing identity management in education with Microsoft Entra’
  • Find out about SoftwareIDM’s Identity Panel Suite – a cloud-based IAM solution we think is a game-changer
  • Request a MIM Design workshop to plan your identity solution migration to the cloud
  • Learn more about our fixed-price ‘all-you-can-eat’ support package
  • Read articles from our experts about MIM, Microsoft Entra ID, and identity solutions
  • See the latest training schedule, delivered by our sister company, Oxford Computer Training

Oxford Computer Group are our go-to partners for identity solutions, helping us to seamlessly migrate our Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) implementation to the cloud. The project was completed on time, within budget and without any disruption to our operations. Throughout, OCG experts worked closely with us, providing valuable advice and adapting to new requirements and strategic shifts as needed.

Tyler, Chief Systems Engineer, Blue Valley School District