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The education industry has lots of assets and pieces of equipment that need to be managed in the right way. However, most of their assets are lost, misplaced, or need to be repaired. The reason all these problems occur is because of the mismanagement of assets. The solution is simple, that is asset management software that is built to resolve all these types of problems. What is an asset management and how important it is for the education sector? That we will cover in this blog now.

Maintenance is an important aspect that several organizations ignore. As a result, organizational assets do not work properly, asset failure occurs, and asset performance is not up to the mark. These types of scenarios are quite common when assets do not get maintenance on time. That is why organizations must not ignore maintenance. In fact, they should provide proactive maintenance to their assets which is helpful in minimizing maintenance expenses.

Data breaches and ransomware attacks are increasing exponentially. The number of data breaches reported per year has increased nearly 70% in the past five years. Eighty-five percent of IT decision makers report having suffered at least one ransomware attack over the same period. Organizations that fall victim to these breaches and attacks experience system downtime, damaged reputations, IP loss and other ill effects that lead to lost business.

Approximately two years ago, the pandemic forced us to start working from the safety of our homes. Organizations purchased, distributed, and deployed services and products to support and maintain business as usual. While doing that, the standard due diligence process was shortened or, in some cases, completely ignored. The common issues were: Excess purchases: Organizations were unprepared to change to an entirely work-from-home model, which was unexpected.

Quite often it has been seen that employees do not find their assets at the location where they left them. These types of scenarios are extremely dangerous for business as they can be harmful to your business by decreasing the productivity of the organization and employees' productivity as well. How? When employees do not find the required asset, they spend their time looking for assets. Even after spending a lot of time looking for assets, employees do not find them.

With rising shopper worries about the ecological effect and data security, all organizations should consider how unproductive assets need to be disposed of! As assets can be a danger to the environment and it can create compliance issues. Nowadays Organizations keep track of their asset and keep maintaining them but do not pay attention to asset disposal. Asset & equipment disposal needs to be done in the right way. Otherwise, it can impact your business as we have discussed below.

The world is getting used to the idea of a permanent shift to remote and hybrid work. The Everywhere Workplace means your employees are, well, everywhere: some might be in the office, while others come and go, others work from home, and still others are part of the rising trend of digital nomads. It’s a good thing that we’re growing comfortable with the idea of employees being everywhere. But there’s a catch: that means our data is everywhere, too.

Lots of organizations do not pay attention to their assets and pieces of equipment, who is using them and where are they located. These are particularly important questions but usually, they are ignored as a result assets are lost and nowhere to be found when they are required. Lots of employees waste their time finding the required assets and pieces of equipment. It also leads to delayed production work. Overall, the top line and bottom line suffer.