TECHNOLOGY // LENOVO
Schools often operate in complex IT environments, with end users ranging from kindergarteners through to young adults.
A tech-enabled future for students involves many solutions: One Lenovo PETER MOYES ANGLICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL WORKED WITH ITS I.T. PARTNER, STOTT HOARE, LEVERAGING LENOVO ANZ INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE SEVERAL I.T. CHALLENGES. FROM DEVICES TO SERVERS AND SERVICES, IT IS SEEING THE BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH ONE LENOVO.
More than 1,300 students attend Peter Moyes Anglican Community School, from prekindergarten through to year 12. Each year, students in grades 4, 7 and 10 are provided with new devices to assist in their everyday learning. In the most recent rollout, Lenovo was chosen as its preferred hardware vendor, with the ThinkPad L13 Yoga chosen as the right solution for both students and teachers. The latest partnership is an extension of the school’s existing relationship with Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), who have been providing the school with servers for some time. The extended partnership is an example of how working with one partner across several IT challenges can reap multiple benefits, simplify complex issues, and allow for a fruitful IT environment that supports long term business outcomes.
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THE CHALLENGE: A COMPLEX IT ENVIRONMENT Schools often operate in complex IT environments, with end users ranging from kindergarteners through to young adults, and many nuances and challenges as experienced by any large enterprise. Stott Hoare have been working with Peter Moyes for nearly five years. Initially employed to provide support on devices, the close nature of the partnership ultimately geared both parties towards management of devices, as well as improvement of the entire IT infrastructure procurement process. By understanding the school’s needs on a deep level, Stott Hoare have helped the school find the right solutions for its complex needs year-in-year-out. “Lots of schools are facing a real challenge navigating their move towards
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a learn from anywhere model, and I think technology has moved away from being just about a device, to how can we manage that device and how we make sure students and teachers have got access from anywhere,” Mr Brian Hawkins, Sales Manager of Stott Hoare, says. Lenovo was already the chosen provider for server infrastructure at the school, so in 2019, when looking to commence a device refresh for students in years 4, 7 and 10, Peter Moyes and Stott Hoare approached Lenovo about extending their partnership. The new partnership was to include solutions spanning existing servers, devices, and services; all of which would help ensure a smooth rollout of devices, easy ongoing management of the IT environment, and better cost containment through bundled financial services.
