Go Beyond Spiceworks® with VAM for K-12 Education

Public schools across the country are using Visual Asset Manager (VAM) to help them address the challenges they face when complying with state and local government accountability.

We understand that — and that’s why we’ve designed Visual Asset Manager to work seamlessly with Spiceworks (and other IT discovery tools such as LANDesk, SMS, Track-IT, and OCS)— going far beyond its simple discovery capability to make your desktop a IT Asset Management powerhouse.

That’s because keeping Visual Asset Manager up to date is as simple as scanning a barcode or reading a RFID tag on the equpment asset, scanning the location code, and pushing a button. With automatic synchronization and publishing from the handheld device, you have reduced the time to update your database with accurate locations to seconds. Beats a clipboard any day!

With our RFID services module, you know exactly when equipment is moved from class to class or from class to service. This reduces the amount of auditing required as you only audit assets that have not been acted on within six months.

Working with RFID for Ultimate Asset Efficiency and Fleet Intelligence gets an A-Plus

The next time you open RFID enabled Visual Asset Manager to search for an asset, you get real-time results. For example, you’ll be able to:

• Fleet and Asset Search processes in real-time with history reports updated instantly.
• Track multiple rooms and resources in numerous locations and across multiple offices
• Know in real-time the location of your service vehicles, campus emergency services or transit vans, and the length of time spent at a stop.
• Send a message to the vehicle's Garmin GPS display or re-route based on updated traffic
• Search for a variety of assets and resources by location, availability and features (like AV needs) — and instantly reserve them
• Group and instantly view assets and resources by location
• Eliminate costly physical search because locations are updated in real-time.
• Walk-by audit reads RFID tags and marks them in their phsyical location using RFID enabled handheld or laptop.

Tracking at a Glance

Because Visual Asset Manager works seamlessly with RFID to electronically streamline updating, you’ll likely experience improved efficiency and overall productivity, including reducing the time your staff spends physically searching for items.

With Marcus V8 Fleet Tracking by Discrete Wireless, Visual Asset Manager shows you the location of each vehicle in real-time. You know that your service, transportation, or emergency vehicle is on its way so you can tell with certainty the exact ETA.

With data center Active RFID tracking, you know in real-time what rack the server is in even though the server is powered off. You know in real-time that the server is being moved to a new rack or removed to a service area.

Say goodbye to your facilities manager walking around with a clip board doing an impromptu inventory because you need to know how many professors in their offices have a certain model of chair, desk or phone. Say goodbye to your IT staff having to search offices or labs for laptops or hardware configurations.

The bottom line is that Visual Asset Manager, together with RFID and Fleet Tracking, is an asset management powerhouse that corporations across the United States and worldwide have already experienced — and that have seen tangible increases in overall productivity, ease in tracking money spent on assets and other critical reporting details, and much more.