Brinsworth Comprehensive School in Rotherham is a large, successful and ambitious multi-cultural secondary school and sixth form with excellent laboratory and ICT facilities. With over 1450 pupils aged 11-19 the task of keeping track of fixed assets can be challenging making the auditing process problematic, time consuming and open to human error.

A basic Access Database had previously been utilised by Brinsworth to monitor the movement of thousands of items of IT and electrical equipment such as visual imaging apparatus and computers, however, this method was proving to be hugely time consuming & keeping track of the items was becoming increasingly more difficult.

Senior IT technician Kathleen Allott asked asset-tracking specialists, ExPD to demonstrate the tangible benefits of implementing Asset-i the strategic asset management system after investigating other database options. Using traditional barcode technologies Asset-i tracks each asset
creating a full audit trail throughout the lifetime of the item.

“Having seen Asset-i, its simple functionality and user friendly navigation there was no competition” said Kathleen “It is easy to use & easy to show others and the help files are good, we are still implementing the system but we are really pleased with it.”

The primary benefits of time saving, tracking & logging the movement of kit as part of the end-to-end capability of Asset-i’ have been demonstrated to Brinsworth Comprehensive. Future auditing activities will be much quicker, smoother & far less arduous.