Région Île-de-France: 550,000 connected users on a sovereign collaborative suite

Région Île-de-France runs monlycee.net, the online platform for high schools across the region, used by more than 550,000 students, teachers, and administrative staff. To help these users collaborate more effectively, to exchange information and to share files securely, the Region wanted to integrate a full collaborative suite into the platform, built on Nextcloud and operated on Leviia’s sovereign and highly scalable infrastructure.

The mission

Working alongside Worldline, the operator of the regional digital workspace (ENT), this large-scale project had to address three major requirements:

• Guaranteeing large-scale adoption: more than 500,000 users with various profiles (students, teachers, administrative staff), expectations and skill levels.
• Implementing a smooth integration with existing tools: monlycee.net, the region’s SSO and the digital services already active.
• Deliver a high level of customization, to meet the specific needs of the education community and strengthen awareness around digital sovereignty.

Why Région Île-de-France chose Leviia

“Availability, responsiveness and iterative approach were the key elements of our partnership with Leviia.”

The main criteria behind this decision:

• Technical expertise: deep expertise in Nextcloud and multi-instance deployment, built to support more than 500,000 users. The architecture relies on a single access point, high availability and optimized data distribution across three data centers.
• A customized project: dedicated support at every stage, backed by a dedicated team and hands-on workshops. Rather than a standard solution, Leviia delivers a customized approach, built in partnership with the Region.
• Integration: native interconnection with Nextcloud, the Region’s SSO, Worldline’s PSN digital services as well as preexisting SOC/SIEM monitoring systems.
• Compliance and sovereignty: a solution hosted in France, certified ISO 27001 and HDS as well as GDPR-compliant. Since the project deals with data belonging to underage citizens, confidentiality and data protection were absolute requirements.

Implementation and results

“Connecting to the monlycee.net environment and adapting to how each school operates were key to our collaboration with Leviia, allowing us to get the most out of these tools.”

The collaborative suite, built on the Nextcloud software layer and operated by Leviia, gives each user:

• 10 to 100 Gb of storage, scaled accordingly to user profile
• An online office suite (Collabora Online) for real-time document co-editing
• Secure internal and external sharing, with granular permissions management
• A fully automated account lifecycle, integrated within SSO
• Advanced protections: WAF, antivirus, anti-DDoS and erasure coding across multiple data centers in France

Results:

• Fast and widespread adoption by users
• High availability with no performance loss
• Full compliance with security standards and regulations

Would you recommend Leviia?

“Sovereignty will never replace quality, which remains an essential criterion when choosing a solution. Leviia managed to combine both: a sovereign solution that also meets our quality and performance requirements.” — Bernard Giry, Deputy Director General for Digital Transformation, Région Île-de-France

About Worldline

Worldline develops and deploys products and solutions to support its clients’ digital transformation, drawing on its core strengths in security, availability and interoperability. In e-education, Worldline provides Région Île-de-France with a secure, scalable and sovereign digital learning environment.