When Erin Ford joined Virginia’s Chesterfield County Public Schools as director of technology services, she became concerned about the way the district monitored its technology assets.
“We were tracking Chromebooks in a vendor-supported asset management system,” she says. “We also inventoried adult-user laptops in an older, on-premises system. Most other inventory, such as interactive whiteboards, document cameras, projectors and printers, was categorized in spreadsheets across several departments.”