Click Educationware

Click Educationware Overview

Click Educationware is characterised by our dedication to partnerships with our clients and a desire to offer genuine flexibility in our solutions that deliver real benefits. Our experience in working with schools and local authorities over a number of years has given us a comprehensive understanding of the issues that schools face and how the use of commodity based solutions can enable transformation.

Click Educationware is offered as a hosted or self managed solution; your applications are made available through a secure web-based portal.

Click Educationware ensures redundancy so your applications are always available and able to handle the level of traffic you need. The Click Educationware Solution is a revolutionary approach to application management, allowing you to instantly activate, deactivate or reset applications.

Virtualize Learning Environments While Reducing Costs

"It's not so much about applications on-demand, but about providing education on-demand, and virtual technology environments have the greatest potential to enhance and improve the students' learning experience in this way." - On-demand education - allowing students to work and learn from any location.

The Importance of the PC at Learning Institutions

Many higher education institutions hand a notebook computer to each entering student; others offer students PCs at such deep educational discounts that acquisition is virtually guaranteed. Many of today's sophisticated university or college classrooms come equipped with shared desktops, and virtually all lab settings come pre-equipped with dedicated PCs. Also, faculty and staff depend on the PC for administration, research, and communication needs, further increasing the scope of the higher education computing environment. All of this ensures that the PC landscape at today's schools, colleges and universities is sizeable, diverse, and complex, supporting an extensive breadth of applications.

There are several challenges that arise from this increasing reliance on PCs in School, Colleges and Universities:

The need to respond to an increase in IT support requirements, without an increase in IT support staff.
The need to manage shared computers that have a high likelihood for unauthorized downloads, accidental malicious program installation.
The need to manage multi-use computer labs, requiring pre and post-class configuration changes.
The need to manage software licenses across a user base that is highly fluid due to graduating/transferring students.
The need, at today's higher education institutions, to support a highly mobile, distributed user group that has come to expect portability.
The need to maintain some level of application version control across far-flung, "autonomous" PC users.
The need to protect against viruses and spyware that can result from the use of multiple open Internet connections.
The need to stay current with application offerings in order to stay competitive.
The need to support "virtual" students working from home on unmanaged PCs.

The Click Educationware Solution for Schools, Universities, and Colleges

Click Educationware's application streaming and license management platform provides an optimal solution to serve the unique PC management needs of the education market - providing a frequently-mobile, fluid university user community with managed, guaranteed access to necessary applications from anywhere at any time - including remote campuses and shared computers - all without placing undue burden on IT staff.

Click Educationware enables IT staff to provision to each student the set of applications required to support that student's course-load. Students can then access the applications they need at any time. When the student logs into any computer on the network, Click Educationware loads the application icons that the student is permitted to access. Clicking on an application icon streams the application from a centrally-maintained application repository to the PC the student has logged in to, installing and launching the application in seconds in a process transparent to the student.

The on-demand approach to application access solves many application management problems

Offer Students the ability to rent software, providing a welcome revenue stream to the cost centre
Do more with less, centralizing support and management of your applications.
Update and patch applications centrally with guaranteed implementation on all PCs, enabling them to stay current.
Limit application access to only "approved" applications that are tested and accessed via the Click Educationware Portal
Provide on-demand application access to anyone, anywhere.
Easily manage multi-use computer labs, facilitating application access without repeated configuration.
Effectively manage software licenses by assigning licenses to users, eliminating software piracy.
Provide application access to a highly portable user community, across geographic locations.
Guarantee consistent versioning among applications, while maintaining the flexibility to provide access to multiple versions if required.