{"id":2493,"date":"2017-08-24T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:44:34","slug":"it-asset-management-in-the-education-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/it-asset-management-in-the-education-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Asset Management In The Education Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The education sector is now a hub of technology.\u00a0Every institution\u00a0requires a\u00a0large variety of IT assets from hardware to software, servers to projectors and the processes in between. Consequently, it\u2019s no surprise that ITAM (IT Asset Management) in the education sector is becoming more common. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/226976\/education-tech-group-launches-london-promote-sector-growth\">In addition, according to <em>City A.M.<\/em>, the\u00a0technology industry in\u00a0education is worth around\u00a0$80 billion Canadian dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not difficult to understand why a trend towards ITAM is growing when you consider how many students\u00a0and staff pass through schools every year. It is likely that hardware, software, and accounts must be distributed and maintained for all those people. In fact, education institutions have the highest turnover rate in IT users because there are many students coming and going each year. This constant shift\u00a0is very annoying for IT because they lack effective processes and tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><a href=\"\/itam-it-asset-management\/\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-alt btn-pill sectionbutton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Learn about VIZOR<\/a><a href=\"\/getstarted\/\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-base btn-pill sectionbutton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Try VIZOR Online<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Problems Involving IT Asset Management In The Education Sector<\/h3>\n<p>Since IT assets are constantly moving, the education sector\u00a0faces issues in maintaining them.\u00a0It&#8217;s hard just to know who has what and where things are. Many assets\u00a0tend to get lost or\u00a0to need repairs because of the nonstop shuffle of students and staff. In either case, in order to reflect the assets&#8217; change in location and their resulting processes, the status of the asset must be updated. This can include assigning new asset, buying new asset; arranging RMA (Return Material Authorization).<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0technology\u00a0is becoming\u00a0a more popular way to learn, the problems IT services in the education sector are facing\u00a0must be\u00a0recognized.\u00a0Sadly,\u00a0the\u00a0ways of automating and managing the necessary processes feel unreachable for IT departments.<\/p>\n<h3>How VIZOR can help<\/h3>\n<p>Recent implementations of VIZOR in the education sector have\u00a0given us with encouraging feedback. VIZOR includes built-in processes for automating onboarding and the returning\u00a0of IT assets. Plus, the tool handles borrowing\u00a0equipment automated email reminders for overdue assets. Actually, some customers have even streamlined this process by\u00a0using barcode scanners.<\/p>\n<p>The problems of IT Asset Management in the education sector are solved with the correct solution, like VIZOR.\u00a0Now,\u00a0tedious ITAM tasks like onboarding and lending equipment can be made easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><a href=\"\/itam-it-asset-management\/\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-alt btn-pill sectionbutton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Learn about VIZOR<\/a><a href=\"\/getstarted\/\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-base btn-pill sectionbutton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Try VIZOR Online<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The education sector is now a hub of technology.\u00a0Every institution\u00a0requires a\u00a0large variety of IT assets from hardware to software, servers to projectors and the processes in between. Consequently, it\u2019s no surprise that ITAM (IT Asset Management) in the education sector is becoming more common. In addition, according to City A.M., the\u00a0technology industry in\u00a0education is worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/it-asset-management-in-the-education-sector\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT Asset Management In The Education Sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149,20],"tags":[39,190,183,184,72,167,189,187,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizor.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}