Monday, May 13, 2013

IT Service management SapphireIMS-one stop solution for colleges and universities


End-to-end IT service management through seamlessly integrated package

Current decentralized IT environment presented an asset management challenge, as each department and or campus needed to collaborate to implement an endpoint management solution. SapphireIMS enables in gaining control of hundreds of assets and cutting yearly maintenance workloads.

 

About Large Scale Colleges

Today the large scale colleges and universities having larger number of departments spread in many acres of land and having hundreds of faculties and thousands of students enrolling every year. It is very important for such colleges to provide larger and modest infrastructure such as providing larger number of IT assets such as desktops, laptops etc. More the IT resources then more the headache of managing the same and then it becomes challenge to provide a centralized environment to manage those IT resources.

Managing means it could be finding out how many total assets, total value, how many in stock, in repair, functioning, how many needs hardware upgrade, how many needs new software installation or license upgrade etc. There are many more additional features can be made available using the right IT service management software which provides end to end IT service management platform such as service desk, asset life cycle management, IT automation, business service monitoring etc.

Challenge

The many departments spread in hundreds of acres of campus at large scale colleges are facing an IT maintenance challenge. Because the large size college’s infrastructure is largely decentralized, each department is responsible for managing its own IT environment assets and as well as non IT assets. This presented an asset management and configuration management pain point, as there was no way to tally up the exact number of devices available at the service and connected to the network, or to ensure that they were installed with the most up-to-date patches and updates.

SapphireIMS is one of the leading brands in India for IT service management solutions and has been used by many IT and non IT organizations. We figured out that there was no college-wide solution for managing their IT and non IT resources. Our software SapphireIMS with its strong engine of asset life cycle management can be proposed to centralize the college’s IT structure for better manageability and visibility across the top executives of the college.


SapphireIMS Solution

SapphireIMS a web based strong asset life cycle management and service desk platform enables administration and executives’ giving capability to centralize the existing organizational structure. SapphireIMS provides role based access such as administrator, principal, HOD or user to retrieve the IT and non asset information providing the secure access and only to those who are configured or allowed to view the details. SapphireIMS with its heterogeneous support feature manages IT assets which are running with different operating system in a single network. And provides platform to manage entire life cycle of an asset right from procurement, In-stock, allocate, In-Repair, Scrap to Asset Received. Not only that SapphireIMS does auto discovery and provides all inventory details of all the IT assets. SapphireIMS provides visibility in terms of software installed in each IT assets so that IT administrator can be well aware that what software to be installed, uninstalled or to upgrade and also SapphireIMS enables to find out OS compliance, IT compliance and other custom user defined IT policies. SapphireIMS has reduced the IT administrator workload considerably and also giving the complete information about entire college’s IT and non IT assets status to the top executives. Different student labs require many different applications/software and IT Manager at college. Thanks to SapphireIMS, IT manager can provision the necessary applications to the correct users or devices with a couple of mouse clicks. SapphireIMS has also greatly simplified the process of updating applications.


Expected Results

With the implementation of SapphireIMS, large sized college’s executives can gain complete information and control over their assets such as desktops, laptops, printers, projectors, camera and other IT and non IT assets, etc. Today, I guess many large scale colleges are having approximately more than 800 assets installed at different departments which can be easily managed by SapphireIMS and SapphireIMS with most scalable product can support hundreds and thousands of such assets. Many processes can be automated, which will be helpful to significantly increase the quality of college’s IT service, as well as reduce yearly maintenance workloads. Most importantly with its service desk SapphireIMS can enable faculties, administrators, principal and other technical and non technical staff to co-operate a controlled and efficient manner by which college executives shall have better visibility on the way they are operating. This may help them to improve the IT and non IT service.

With SapphireIMS each department can manage the patching, upgrading and maintenance of its IT assets from a common tool in an integrated infrastructure and greatly reducing the total system administration workload.  We’re confident that SapphireIMS will be able to offer administrative staff, researchers, and teachers the robust, secure and reliable IT platform they need to provide the highest level of service, research, and teaching to their students and also managing their IT and non assets.

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