What IUT de Dijon-Auxerre does

IUT de Dijon-Auxerre is a French public university technology institute (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) operating within Université Bourgogne Europe, a state-funded higher education institution under the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The institute delivers higher education programs and is geographically distributed across six campuses in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region: Auxerre, Chalon-sur-Saône, Dijon, Le Creusot, Mâcon, and Nevers, with presidency and administration headquartered at the Maison de l'université, Esplanade Erasme, Dijon.

The institute's primary digital product is the Environnement Numérique de Travail (ENT), a unified digital workplace portal accessible at ent.ube.fr. The ENT is built on the Liferay portal platform and functions as a single sign-on entry point — via sesame.ube.fr authentication — to a personalized bouquet of services including electronic mail, class schedules, calendars, exam results, and administrative documents. Services are tailored by user profile (student vs. personnel), and the platform supports French (fr-FR) and English (en-US) interfaces. Users access the portal through self-service authenticated login on a 24/7 basis.

As a public institution, IUT de Dijon-Auxerre does not operate a commercial revenue model. Operations, including the ENT service, are sustained by government higher education funding and are provided to enrolled students and university personnel at no direct cost. The go-to-market is fully captive: the sole user base is the students and personnel of Université Bourgogne Europe. The institution is a member of the FORTHEM Alliance, a European university alliance under the European Universities Initiative, and maintains a multi-channel social media presence (Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube) under the Université Bourgogne Europe brand for outreach to prospective students and the regional public.

Name

IUT de Dijon-Auxerre

Legal name

Université Bourgogne Europe

Website

https://ent.u-bourgogne.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IUT de Dijon-Auxerre is a French public university technology institute within Université Bourgogne Europe, operating a Liferay-based digital workplace portal (ENT) that delivers email, schedules, calendars, exam results, and administrative documents to enrolled students and personnel across six regional campuses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Digital Workplace

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Identity & Access Management (SSO/MFA) for Education (EDAFALAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

eSignature, Forms & Digital Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• Higher education services
• Digital workplace platform
• University student portal
• Academic administration services
• Educational technology services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dijon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Higher Education Funding: As a public French university institution (IUT - Institut Universitaire de Technologie) under Université Bourgogne Europe, operations are funded through government higher education budgets and public funding rather than commercial revenue generation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

IUT de Dijon-Auxerre provides an Environnement Numérique de Travail (ENT), a digital workplace platform that serves as a single entry point for personalized digital services to enrolled students and university personnel. The platform consolidates access to email, class schedules, calendars, exam results, and administrative documents through authenticated web login. It operates as part of Université Bourgogne Europe, a French public higher education institution funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Product overview

The university provides a single integrated digital work environment called the Environnement Numérique de Travail (ENT). This platform serves as a unified point of entry enabling users to access a personalized bouquet of digital services based on their profile. The core ENT product consolidates email, class schedules, calendars, exam results, and administrative files into one accessible platform for students and personnel of Université Bourgogne Europe.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Environnement Numérique de Travail (ENT)

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FORTHEM AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversité Bourgogne Europe is a member of the FORTHEM Alliance (forthem-alliance.eu), a European university alliance. The FORTHEM logo appears alongside the university logo on the ENT platform, indicating institutional partnership in the European Universities Initiative.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Apereo Foundation: Open-source community stewarding CAS (Central Authentication Service), uPortal, and Bedework used for SSO and campus portals in higher education globally; directly comparable as the identity-and-portal foundation layer that a Liferay-based ENT like UBE's sits on top of.
• Clever: Education-focused identity and single sign-on platform used widely by schools and increasingly higher-ed; directly comparable in the SSO-for-education category and in its role consolidating access to academic resources, schedules, and results behind one login.
• ClassLink: Leading K-12 and higher-ed SSO/identity management platform consolidating access to academic and administrative applications; directly comparable because it solves the same 'single sign-on personalized digital services' problem for educational users that the UBE ENT addresses.
• AMUE (Agence de Mutualisation des Universités et Établissements): French higher-education mutualization agency providing shared IT and digital-workplace services to universities; directly comparable as it operates the kind of consortium-style digital workplace infrastructure that the UBE ENT participates in and could be productized through.
• InCommon Federation: Identity and SSO federation operated for the U.S. education and research community; directly comparable as a trust-layer that lets students and staff use one credential across educational services - functionally the same role the UBE ENT performs within its institution and consortium.
• Kosmos: Major French higher-education digital workplace (ENT) provider serving numerous universities and grandes écoles; directly comparable because it delivers the same SSO-based academic portal (email, schedules, calendars, exam results, admin docs) that IUT de Dijon-Auxerre's ENT delivers, but at multi-institution scale.
• ESUP-Portail: Open-source consortium producing the ESUP-Portail ENT stack widely deployed across French universities; directly comparable because many universities, including those built on Liferay, use ESUP-Portail as the reference implementation of the very digital-workplace pattern UBE operates.

Broad incumbents

• Okta: Major enterprise identity provider with a dedicated higher-education vertical (Okta for Education) offering SSO and adaptive MFA; comparable as a broad incumbent delivering SSO-to-education-services patterns that compete with or complement an in-house Liferay-based ENT.
• Microsoft 365 Education: Microsoft's education productivity and identity bundle (Entra ID, Teams Education, Outlook, SharePoint) that consolidates email, calendars, and class resources behind one login; comparable as a broad incumbent offering the consolidated digital-workplace experience that ENT portals like UBE's aim to provide.
• Google Workspace for Education: Google's education productivity suite (Gmail, Calendar, Classroom, Drive) gated behind a single education SSO credential; comparable as a broad incumbent whose managed education identity and productivity stack substitutes for, or complements, institutional ENT portals like UBE's.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/univbourgeurope
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/UnivBourgogne
• Facebookfacebook.com/univbourgeurope
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/iut-de-dijon-auxerre
• Instagraminstagram.com/univbourgeurope

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