BigFix

Tech Services has a new tool to save the district money.

Our department is now deploying new software, called Big Fix, with the potential to save the district up to $400,000 dollars per year on our power bill.  Most computers, at current, have to be left on continuously to receive Windows and virus protection updates; with the help of Big Fix, your PC's will be updated every evening, then overnight I.T. will shut them down to save money.  Based on our current PC usage, this will save Twin Rivers up to $40 per desktop, per year; multiply that times our estimated 10,000 district PC's and the savings adds up quick.

We also hope to save money on PC software using Big Fix.  As of now our district must buy and install software carte blanche, with few ways of tracking whether that software is ever used.  Using detailed inventory and tracking, Big Fix will allow the district to save software license costs and purchase programs for only the classrooms that need and use them.  Our first savings should come this summer, reducing the cost of required license upgrades now estimated at several hundred thousand dollars.

Big Fix will be rolled out over the next several weeks, and should be virtually invisible to most users.  In the background, however, it will help automate and streamline PC Support, and make computing in Twin Rivers less costly, and more efficient.