Meeting with my site supervisor......

I met with my site supervisor yesterday brainstorming on ideas and suggestions for an action research project. My supervisor felt that the Dell Kace Management System would be a good place to start. I think he’s right. Basically I will research how Kace will increase productivity, reduce man hours and save the school money. These were basically my thoughts in my discussion about my action research: One curiosity I share is how to make the deployment, installation, and upgrades of software more efficient throughout the campus; both for the technician and user. The problem is that a lot of man hours, costs and down time for end users are being spent on basic software installs and upgrades that take up a lot of time, when done manually, as opposed to having a system in place to push this information out. I am interested in finding the qualitative and quantitative analysis of using the Dell Kace Management System. I believe the action research investigation will allow me the opportunity to bring to light and define the most eminent details of how much time, energy, and money can be saved in using the Kace Management System. Inventory will be awesome, imaging much faster, the ability to manage both Windows and MAC desktops from one appliance is a major benefit overall. The Dell Kace can handle tasks that will give IT the ability to concentrate on higher value IT projects, which in return is a big benefit for the school.