Thousands of higher-education sites, community colleges and K-12 districts world-wide employ K2 to manage both academic and administrative computing resources. K2 is well-adapted to the needs of academic computing with features of special interest for lab management, district-wide management of multiple schools, and custom licensing options especially adapted to academic software licensing models. Read the testimonials and Case Studies below for in-depth examples.


K2 reduces software licensing costs and increases the availability of computing resources in academic settings.

Keep Software Costs under Budget
When the IT staff at Kennedy Middle School was faced with more requests for software than money to pay for it, they turned to Sassafras Software and K2. Now they know exactly how much software they really need, and K2 keeps their costs under-budget.
Migration Management Case Study
The “Parkview” school district installed new mainframe systems that required upgrades for many of their end-point computers. But they didn’t know which ones. Two methods were used to determine migration requirements. One worked, the other didn’t.
CASE STUDY:
Kennedy Middle School
CASE STUDY:
“Parkview” School District


Award winning K2, KeyAuditor & KeyServer, SAM software asset management tool

Outstanding Product of the Year

Technology & Learning magazine recognized K2 – KeyAuditor & KeyServer as one of the outstanding products of the year with its 2004 Award of Excellence. Winners were chosen by more than 30 educator-judges who tested products for use in computing labs.
K2 in Education
Case Studies 
 

Case Study Links…

Kennedy Middle School

Parkview District

Features of special interest in Education:

• Manage separate user groups for faculty, administration, and students.

• Integrate with numerous help-desk, procurement, and other IT management tools.

• Manage separate schools, or labs, with K2’s “Divisions” feature.

• Selectively restrict access to unauthorized programs by group, computer, or address.

• Reserve software in advance for scheduled lab usage.

• Prevent software piracy.

• Auto-discover newly installed applications, then monitor or control them.

• One K2 server can provide instantaneous service to tens of thousands of Windows, Macintosh and Thin-client computers.

“We’re very pleased with our choice of KeyServer. We’ve expanded our use and rely on it heavily. We couldn’t offer half of what we do without it and most people don’t know it’s there. We’ve also been able to establish licensing contracts a lot more smoothly with this in place. It’s a well-respected product.”

· Neil Clarke, Drew University