SchoolDude

Value to Your Administration

• Capture the total picture of district or institution technology assets
• Improve reporting to more accurately calculate budgets
• Breeze through audits with accurate asset tracking and accounting
• Reduce risk and increase accountability
• Save up to 30% on software license compliance, management and reporting
• Reduce overall cost of technology infrastructure–stop overbuying

Value to Your Staff & Faculty

• Improved service, communication and feedback
• Faster recovery of lost or stolen assets
• Better productivity with up-to-date software/hardware

Value to the IT Team

• Automate asset data collection to improve efficiency and productivity (no more “sneakernet”!)
• Reduce support calls by 10-15 minutes by knowing the hardware and software configuration of each asset
• Eliminate rogue devices and applications from your network
• Identify and recover lost or stolen assets quickly
• Reduce audit and inventory management time
• Conduct proactive renewal, replacement, long-term planning and life cycle costing
• Save up to 30% on software license compliance, management and reporting
• Stop wasting money–redistribute underutilized software and shelfware

Features

• Gather and report information about technology assets on your network, including hardware, installed software and software utilization as well as IP-discoverable peripherals (printers, routers, scanners, projectors, etc.)
• Identify location, manufacturer, CPU, BIOS, RAM, adapters (including MAC and IP addresses), network, disks/partitions, operating systems, and software
• Manage all computer assets across multiple platforms (including Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Novell, etc.)
• Provide an accurate database of all hardware and software assets
• Monitor assets at the component level and generates alerts (based on your specifications) for missing assets
• Track software licenses and usage for optimum license management and compliance
• Automatically generate alerts for license agreement violations
• Manage installed software and generates alerts when unauthorized software is discovered
• Track the cost of upgrading versus replacement for developing upgrade and replacement plans
• Track warranty expiration dates and number of computer assets under warranty
• Track vendor service contract end dates and how many assets are assigned to the contract
• Enable proactive IT support by generating alerts before problems occur (e.g., low hard drive space)