If you are tracking laptops in a spreadsheet, chances are you aren’t managing them properly. Spreadsheets are great for static information that doesn’t constantly change. However, your laptops go through a lifecycle. Their status, for example, needs updating from asset request and procurement to allocation and retirement. Updating this information in a spreadsheet is tedious … Continue reading Laptop Management: Spreadsheet vs ITAM tool
One-to-one (commonly abbreviated as 1:1) computing programs in the education system have already been around for a few decades. Although not a new concept, schools still have trouble obtaining successful results with one-to-one programs. Are schools biting off more than they can chew? Can they be underestimating the undertaking of implementing a one-to-one program? Are … Continue reading One-to-One Programs in Education: More than Buying Devices
It’s safe to say that Chromebooks are a big success in schools in the US. As of mid-2019, there were 30 million students using Chromebooks in classrooms in the country. However, school districts across the nation are still figuring out how to best acquire, distribute, and track the devices, without any overarching guidelines. There are … Continue reading 3 Reasons Schools Need Chrome Device Management
Peter Drucker famously said that you cannot manage what you cannot measure. This applies to manage people, projects and even the assets in your organization. And in order to measure anything, you need to know what and how much you’re managing. Therefore, Network Discovery Tools can identify the assets on their network. Let’s review 7 … Continue reading 7 Useful Network Discovery Features
VIZOR’s ‘Atateken’ release has officially launched. In this blog, we review major updates in the product as well as the new naming convention of our releases. Try ‘Atateken’ in our newly updated online demo environment or schedule a 1:1 live demo with one of our product experts. So What’s New? VIZOR’s ‘Atateken’ is the first … Continue reading Announcing VIZOR’s Atateken Release
The emergence of the cloud and the accessibility of Software as a Service (SaaS) has introduced a nearly endless amount of new software services for organizations. Think about customer service software, sales platforms, and customer relationship management software. There are about a hundred pop-up bots you can install on your website these days! Now imagine … Continue reading 6 Reasons You Want A Software Request Portal
The organizational structure – in other words, how information, operations, and decisions flow through the company – is key to its overall success. To demonstrate the importance of organizational structure, consider a smaller company experiencing rapid growth. Like many smaller companies, they will experience growing pains. Forbes lists the most damaging growing pains as: Inefficiency … Continue reading Do you have a process for internal approvals?
Do you remember the good old days? When recycling software involved nothing more than removing a user’s name from an AD group and all was ok(ish) with the world? (That’s if recycling ever took place!) And while the compliance drive to “trim our IT sails” was echoed in the halls of IT best practice, the … Continue reading Software Recycling in the SaaS world
After hours of scouring the net, I stumbled upon several articles about 2020 technology predictions. Some predictions were warranted while others seemed questionable. Amongst the experts in the industry, I found five predictions that seemed reasonable and that may affect the IT world. Here are the 4 Technology Predictions that may affect you in 2020: … Continue reading 4 Technology Predictions that can affect IT in 2020
With over 3 million downloads, ChromebookInventory was a popular add-on for Google Admin Console. The add-on exported Chromebook metadata and Organizational Units (OUs) from the Google Admin Console into a Google Sheet. This made it much easier to perform bulk edits against an entire fleet of Chromebooks. Despite its popularity, support for ChromebookInventory stopped. As … Continue reading ChromebookInventory Alternative
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