Educational institutions today are faced with many challenges above and beyond just educating students - from budget constraints to the constant change of students and staff coming and going throughout the school year
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More than 50% of technology implementations either fail or cost much more than originally planned because the right people were not in place to make decisions on learning strategy, content, data migrations, database integration, and process changes and oversee the implementation process. Avoid running the risk of failure.
IT Challenges in Academia
Educational institutions today are faced with many challenges above and beyond just educating students - from budget constraints to the constant change of students and staff coming and going throughout the school year. With very limited centralized receiving practices and the difficulty faced by managing processes around the school’s operating schedule, asset management is a unique and complex challenge.
The lack of Knowledge Management processes also creates new challenges for these institutions as staff is constantly changing both throughout the school year and from one year to another. Technology equipment (both hardware and software) is also an ongoing need for large numbers of students and staff, with little focus on lifecycle management, potentially opening the school up to compliance and security issues.
Animus Solutions has several years’ experience working with universities and their IT departments to create proper policies, processes and procedures to manage security, asset lifecycle management including retirement of IT assets, and on boarding and off boarding of staff members to ensure compliance. Animus works with each institution to create a solution that works for for their unique culture, as no two schools are alike.
Gartner Research Statistics:
- Through 2014, the focus of higher education institutions will gradually shift from supplying equipment for students to use to providing access to institution applications and data.
- IT staff in higher education institutions will initially struggle to work with logical (virtual machine) boundaries as opposed to physical ones (their responsibility will be for a window or “bubble” of software on a device, not for the device). Students and non-IT staff will also initially struggle to understand what they can ask for support on.
- Most higher education institutions will adopt and deploy virtualization technologies when migrating client operating systems.
Source: Marti Harris, Gartner Research, February 2010
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