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Average number of monthly user to users of the service management interface: 80
Average number of monthly logins to service management interface: 550
Average number of monthly manual changes (i.e. done by a person) changes to to groups: 570
Average number of monthly changes to access control groups (i.e. the result of the combination manual intervention and data driven groups): 14,000
The key benefit of grouper service is that is allows the university to leverage its' institutional data to deliver a manageable access control platform. 80 users being able to deliver 14,000 access control changes a month while only having to make 570 manual changes is the crux of this value. The web based interface means that many of those 80 users are non technical and could control access to their resources easily. Prior to using grouper providing access control to 23 systems would have resulted in much time consuming work for administrators, grouper has removed much of that work.
The story of 2012
2012 brought a number of new developments with the use of Grouper at Newcastle University.
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