Snipe-IT is free, open source asset management. Managing assets with a Google doc or a shared Excel spreadsheet is more common than you think. When your company is small, it can (sort of) work for a while, but as you grow, things get messy, fast.
"When our school district decided on a 1:1 device deployment, we needed a way to track which student had which device, keep maintenance records of a device and to keep track of which students purchased an optional protection plan for the device they were given. We also needed a low cost solution, and many of the options geared toward a 1:1 device deployment were very expensive. We came across Snipe-IT in our hunt for a way to keep accurate records of which students had which devices. After installing the software on-premises, we quickly realized Snipe-IT offered every thing the district needed at a great price, free! We watched development of the software over a period of 6 months. With a steady stream of updates, a very active development team, the ability to import users with ldap, and documentation that made the product rock solid, we made the decision to move the districts entire technology inventory to Snipe-IT software. Our 1:1 device deployment went without a hitch in August thanks to Snipe-IT software."
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