Dell today reports that schools are already deploying recently
announced Dell Latitude 10 tablets designed to address the costly
and time consuming device management challenges faced by schools
undertaking large deployments of tablets. Fargo Public Schools,
Southern Illinois University, Spartanburg School District 3 and
Westwood Independent Schools have selected the enterprise-ready
Windows 8 tablets for their compelling touch experience,
reliability, security and ease of management.
Fargo Public Schools: “We want our
students to learn the needed skills to be successful in the 21st
century and we believe they must have the right devices at the
ready that will help them not only consume information but also
produce new projects and content,” said Bill Westrick, IT Director,
Fargo Public Schools. “We chose Dell Windows 8 devices because
teachers can integrate them into their existing curriculum;
students can now produce information as easily as they can consume
it and the Dell Latitude 10 tablets are easy for us to manage
within our existing IT infrastructure.”
Southern Illinois University: “This
tablet initiative will enhance student success and help them become
more engaged in the campus experience,” said Rita Cheng,
Chancellor, Southern Illinois University. “Being the first
comprehensive research university to launch a large-scale,
campus-wide tablet initiative that focuses on student success lets
our students know that we are working to revolutionize their SIU
experience. We know our students and their families also will
appreciate the financial benefits of e-textbooks.”
Spartanburg School District 3:
“Ultimately, it’s all about the learning experience,” said Eric
Levitt, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Spartanburg
School District 3. “Dell Windows 8 devices deliver our teachers and
students an intuitive device for self-directed learning that
delivers a personalized approach to education.”
Westwood Independent School District:
“We were seeking solutions that would bring technology into the
classroom, sparking students’ desire to learn, and also expanding
our district’s educational opportunities beyond the classroom,”
explains Dr. Clint McLain, Assistant Superintendent and High School
Principal, Westwood Independent School District. “Additionally,
Dell’s tablets provided the best way to address our online student
assessment needs here in the State of Texas. These devices are
innovative and will be enjoyable for our students to use.”
Study Reveals Multiple IT Challenges of Deploying Tablets in
K-12 Schools
A recent Dell and Intel-commissioned Harris Interactive online
survey2 of 203 US school system administrators and IT decision
makers highlights the tablet management challenges faced by schools
today. The results show that tablets are increasingly becoming a
standard IT device (53 percent of IT decision makers surveyed have
deployed them in their schools). However, other studies show some
tablets can cost significantly more time and money to manage.
According to the results of the Harris survey:
- Preparing tablets to work in a school’s
existing infrastructure can cost more than $1,4002,3 on
average.
- These costs include time spent on tasks
such as device management, password setting and resetting,
enterprise domain and access configuration and policy
development.
- Fifty-seven percent of education IT
decision makers using tablets say there are applications currently
used on their desktops and laptops that cannot be currently
accessed on their tablets; 46 percent say some can only be used
with limited functionality.
- Additionally, 41 percent say they have
to purchase applications to mirror desktop and laptop
functionality.
- And 31 percent say they require
additional software or tools to manage tablets.
- Fifty-nine percent of school system IT
decision makers and administrators say choosing devices that
integrate with their existing IT infrastructure and that can be
managed by existing tools is the best way to minimize total cost of
ownership for tablets.
The Dell Latitude 10 tablet was designed to overcome these
challenges by combining a great user experience with ease of
management and deployment by IT. The tablet fits easily and
securely into existing school IT environments to help improve IT
efficiency and decrease total cost-of-management. Because it is
managed like any standard Windows-based laptop, the Dell Latitude
10 tablet is significantly easier to deploy and manage than the
iPad in large scale implementations.
According to third-party testing performed by Principled
Technologies1, when compared to the iPad in large scale education
deployments, the Latitude 10 essentials configuration:
- Requires 52 percent less time to
manage.
- Is 99 percent faster for software
updates, saving approximately 197 hours with automated
updates.
- Saves IT time, doubling the number of
devices a single IT staff member can manage.
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Additional Resources:
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reports and blogs that further explore the research findings and
Latitude 10 for Education can be found here.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is committed to helping students
develop the knowledge and skills they need to learn and succeed in
an increasingly digital world and a globally competitive workforce.
As a top provider of technology and services to schools, Dell
listens to and works with students, educators, administrators,
parents and community members around the world to deliver
innovative technology and services that give them the power to do
more in and out of the classroom. Learn more about Dell in
Education at www.dell.com. Follow us on Twitter @DellEDU.
1Tablets in Large Enterprises: Dell Latitude 10
with Windows 8 vs. Apple IPad, A Principled Technologies Test
Report, Commissioned by Dell, Jan. 2013
2The Dell Education and Technology study is a
third-party study commissioned by Dell. This Dell Education and
Technology study was conducted online within the US and UK by
Harris Interactive on behalf of Dell between Dec. 27, 2012 and Jan.
14, 2013 among 203 US and 120 UK IT decision makers who work in
K-12 education and are either principals, school administrators or
IT professionals working inside or outside a dedicated IT
department, and who have at least a major influence on decision
making regarding purchasing computer equipment for the school. No
estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full
methodology is available here.
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Taxes, shipping, handling and other fees apply. Offers available
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About Principled Technologies and Management Cost
Methodology
Principled Technologies (PT) compared a set of typical
enterprise IT management operations on the Latitude 10 and the
Apple iPad. PT looked at what the cost of doing these operations
would be in a typical enterprise with 1,000 of the devices using
existing management tools like SCCM. Principled Technologies
provides industry-leading technology assessment and fact-based
marketing services relying upon extensive experience with and
expertise in all aspects of technology testing and analysis, from
researching new technologies, to developing new methodologies, to
testing with existing and new tools. Principled Technology’s
founders have worked in technology assessment for over 20 years.
They created and led the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation, which
developed such industry-standard benchmarks as Ziff Davis Media’s
Winstone and WebBench. They founded and led eTesting Labs, and
after the acquisition of that company by Lionbridge Technologies
were the head and CTO of VeriTest.
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