~80% — License Savings
99.99% — Availability
50k — Users / 5 Campuses
Scalable, Self‑Owned Learning Cloud
EduSovereign Alliance — Education Consortium
Executive Summary
We replaced a third‑party LMS with a federated, sovereign learning cloud across five campuses and 50,000 users. Licensing costs fell sharply while uptime reached 99.99% with offline content caches for labs.
Challenge
- Avoid escalating license fees and vendor policy changes that disrupt semesters.
- Ensure resilient access during regional internet disruptions.
- Allow campus IT to add courses and sites with minimal retraining.
Sovereign Architecture Solution
- Federated open‑source LMS with sovereign SSO and edge caches.
- Declarative templates launch new sites in minutes; standardized ToT runbooks.
- Audit‑ready activity logs and privacy‑preserving analytics.
Results
- ~80% licensing cost reduction; 99.99% service availability semester‑to‑date.
- Scaled to 50k users across 5 campuses without vendor support tickets.
- New site onboarding in <30 minutes by campus IT.