This article elaborates on the common problems of educational institutions and how they can be easily solved 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 such organizations is more than 3 years, which in terms of IT is old, very old. This leads to a never-ending stream of problems and operational set-backs. The students themselves do not help also in their constant search for new experiences and knowledge, they often further damage the equipment they are using. Software incompatibility issues is a well known nightmare for 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, always running machines (especially when the assignment deadlines are close); in total a well oiled structure that will allow them to enjoy the freedoms of the modern user and do their work swiftly and securely.

Scense can answer those needs in an elegant and innovative way. Relying on years of experience and constant improvements, our team has developed a platform that addresses all those issues at once.

Let’s start with software management in general. 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 our centralized architecture, we can deploy applications to everybody with just a few mouse clicks; further we 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.

Having defined the install 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.

Going one step further, one of the greatest issues for educational institutions are 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.

Implementing Scense results in instant reduction of support costs.