Education
Scense helps educational institutions to overcome their day to day IT challenges solves these with the implementation of Scense platform.
Taking a swift look at a university or school IT infrastructure we cannot fail to notice a few major challenges that prevent IT management from developing innovations or system improvements. Instead, they often resemble a daily maintenance department.
In general the average age of hardware and software in educational institutions is more than 3 years, which in terms of IT is old. This can lead to a never-ending stream of technical problems and operational set-backs. We have come at the point that the Students, have more understanding about IT then some Departments of the educational institutions. Next to this, today’s students are born and raised in the IT age; they consider the IT tools they are used to work with at home as a logical extension and expect to have these available to them at the educational institutions as well. Their constant search for new experiences and knowledge does not always help in providing a stable and standardized IT platform within educational institutions. Software incompatibility issues are a well-known challenge for the IT administration staff. Solving such issues is often time consuming, expensive and there is no guarantee that once solved, it will not appear again. On the other hand, students’ demands are following the global trends, expecting location and time independent access to files and applications, wherever they are (especially when the assignment deadlines are close).
Scense can solve these requirements for educational institutions in an elegant and innovative way. Relying on years of experience and constant improvements, Scense has developed a platform that addresses all these challenges at once for the Education market. Some of the major areas where Scense can reduce costs and improves the system reliability and availability, within the Education market are:
Application management & support
The first issue that arises when dealing with software is compatibility – Scense Adaptive Installer, using a patented technology, eliminates any possible software incompatibility issues. There is no need for application repackaging or other system adjustments, ever. Once this is dealt with, the next issue is how to distribute new applications – the old fashioned way, going from a pc to a pc, requires a lot of time and money. With the centralized architecture, you can deploy applications to everybody with just a few mouse clicks; further you can pre-define all installation settings either globally or per user group, for example. The install screen capture feature makes the process simple and swift.
Workspace Portability
Having defined the installation parameters of the application, Scense allows for other fine adjustments like automatic file associations, version control and last but not least license management. All these features aim at one thing – creating the ultimate portable workspace both easy to manage and use.
Easy Centralized User Management
One of the greatest challenges for educational institutions is the students themselves. The heavy use of equipment leads to damages or even breakdowns often sooner than expected. Scense approaches the problem by allowing administrators to have full control over certain events in the user session. This leads to resource optimization and smooth machine operation. The wide set of possibilities virtually allows for any system alternation. Predefined maintenance procedures (executable by users) eliminate the need of specialized staff performing mundane repair tasks.
User Guidance
A clear and transparent communication channel between IT administration and end users allows for a reduced number of help-desk calls and stimulates users to optimize and maintain their working environment themselves. Scense enables the users to have an easy method of self service and self-healing of applications via the innovative Scense client, whereas at the same moment ensuring that the control is centralized within the IT department.
By implementing Scense, educational institutions have one workspace management solution in place managing and delivering all applications and desktops in use within the institution. The IT department has a centralized control and overview over all locations and the need to visit the locations physically to install applications or updates or configure desktops, has been reduced to a minimum. Applications are prepared and delivered in a short amount of time and can finally be used on every desktop and every location