CUSTOMER STORY|

Transforming Learning and Productivity
with Identity Management

Lighthouse Academies (LHA) is a national nonprofit network of charter schools dedicatedto preparing a population of scholars, who would otherwise face a future with limited
opportunity, for college, career, and life in an arts-enriched environment.

Education organization
with over 7,000 accounts

User identities managed
in less than 2 hours a day

Helpdesk savings drive
higher productivity

CHALLENGE
From an operational standpoint, Lighthouse Academies (LHA) started from scratch when
they hired Casey Muse, CIO and CTO, in 2016. They needed to set up various systems tocreate and manage student identities, student application access, and to improve theoverall productivity of their students. None of this would have been possible for themwithout adopting an access management solution. Without automation, LHA knew thatthey could not scale their organization to add 6,000 more student accounts into theirsystems and maintain control. They realized that they needed to find an identity
management cloud solution that resolved all of their needs. Besides manual apps
provisioning for on- and off-boarding, none of LHA on-prem servers were actuallyconnected across the organization. The local school charters are each owned by different
non-profit organizations that have their own boards. It is a challenge when LHA has toprovide a cohesive experience across the schools but still respect their independence.

SOLUTION
LHA has multiple student information systems (SIS) which provide the primary source oftruth for students. Every night the SIS will sync to a local Active Directory (AD) server at
the school site. They used OneLogin's Active Directory Connector to link to their ADenvironment and automatically pull added or changed identities and Organizational Units(OU) into OneLogin's cloud directory. The OneLogin directory provides a global view ofevery identity across the entire network. “From the beginning, it was clear that OneLoginunderstood our unique academic and non-profit needs right away and they were more
about the partnership with LHA, which made a really big difference for us. And, honestly,
we've seen that continue ever since we've been on the platform,” states Muse. “Having auniversal directory that sits on top of everything in our organization, OneLogin has
enabled us to support more application requests and initiatives, made us much moreproductive, and the work we need to do much easier.”

RESULTS“The biggest win across the organization, with the largest business impact from
OneLogin, is an infrastructure that enables us to have over 6,000 unique student
accounts,” explains Muse. We didn't have student accounts at all and our staff accountmanagement was cumbersome, manual, and required a lot of maintenance. It consumed
large parts of our help desk and on-site technicians days. Now those are pretty muchgone. “I now run an organization of over 7,000 accounts with less than two hours a day
spent on managing user identity, and that’s all thanks to OneLogin.”

INDUSTRY
Non-profit/Education

USERS
600 faculty and staff;
6,000 students

INTEGRATIONS
Apps: Workplace, Box,
Office 365, G Suite, 8x8,ClassDojo, Google
Classroom Directories:
10 AD server environments"From the beginning, it was clearthat OneLogin understood ourunique academic and non-profit
needs right away and they weremore about the partnership withLHA, which made a really big
difference for us."
Casey MuseCIO & CTO
LIGHTHOUSE ACADEMIES

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