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Keller Independent School District Selects Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management Platform to Manage 35,000 Devices

Cloud-based Solution Helps Texas School District Reduce Costs, Increase Digital Content Voucher Benefits & Generate Online Ad Revenue to Support Student Programs and Activities

 

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/19/2014 -- Keller Independent School District (ISD) of Keller, Texas announced today that it has selected the Appdigio™ Mobility Lifecycle Management™ platform to manage the mobile devices and content of its 35,000 students, teachers, and staff members. The Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform enables organizations of virtually any size to manage digital educational content vouchers, Apple and Android educational applications, digital textbooks, and the devices that run them. The Mobility Lifecycle Management platform from Appdigio helps significantly reduce technology-related costs and increase voucher utilization efficiency by empowering teachers and staff with more control over devices and education content.

The explosion of one-to-one (1:1) initiatives and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in all levels of public and private education has created new challenges for organizations across the country. School and university 1:1 initiatives are based on students and teachers using a mobile device such as a laptop, tablet, or smart phone to access online resources, digital course materials, and digital textbooks. BYOD is often contrasted with 1:1 because BYOD focuses on the student providing his or her own device, but both strategies involve each student and teacher using a mobile device as the primary tool for learning and teaching.

Joe Griffin, CIO of Keller Independent School District, elaborated on the decision to select Appdigio as the district’s mobile device management (MDM) solution provider:

“Appdigio provides a robust and unique solution to the challenge school districts have in procuring and managing apps. After implementing Appdigio in our district, we were able to fold the separate processes of MDM, voucher management, and application management into a customizable, on-line store that is easily managed by students and staff. A huge bonus is the ability to generate additional revenue for our campuses and district from the online advertising component. Appdigio is definitely a game-changer for our district’s enterprise application procurement and management efforts.”

When a device is lost or otherwise compromised, Keller ISD uses the Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform to trace the device and even erase the device’s applications and associated files. This high level of control helps the district to recover and redeploy textbook and application licenses to other students, which saves money and ensures content vouchers are used efficiently across all devices. Plus, Appdigio’s platform includes a comprehensive online advertising component that lets the district earn revenue from ads on associated Web pages that it chooses. The cloud-based Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform means Keller ISD can meet the growing demands of mobile device and content management while generating revenue to continue and expand educational, sports, arts, and other programs and activities.

“Managing a mobile enterprise is not just the role of the IT department,” said Appdigio Chief Executive Officer Jim Crocco. “We try to think beyond how to simply restrict a device or its applications to how to empower users to be more productive. The key, especially for educational institutions, is to provide a total solution that works within the limited budgetary and staffing levels that most schools deal with today.”

With the days of printed textbook quickly coming to an end, educational institutions like Keller ISD must support and manage more and more devices, a growing variety of applications (apps), and a constant stream of requests for apps from users. The Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform allows Keller ISD to instantly centralize the management of all mobile devices and applications with seamless integration of existing education content programs from providers like Apple, Google, and others. The Mobility Lifecycle Management platform helps Keller ISD remain at the forefront of educational MDM by managing devices and content across all functional teams.

About Appdigio, Inc.
Appdigio, Inc. is a Dallas-based mobile device management (MDM) solution provider focused on multi-tiered device and application management, including spend allocation, application selection, approval, and distribution, and centralized device management. The cloud-based Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management™ platform helps organizations of all sizes replace expensive, cumbersome, non-integrated enterprise system software with organization-wide ticketing systems, inventory control, digital lockers for integration with third-party content providers such as Apple and Google, internal communication systems, and revenue-generating online ad opportunities via custom Enterprise App Stores.

For more information and to schedule an on-site demonstration for your school district or organization, please visit http://www.appdigio.com/contact

For more information please contact James Crocco, CEO, Appdigio, Inc. at jcrocco@appdigio.com or call 214-773-2929.