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Cloud-based Solution Helps Texas School District Reduce Costs, Increase Digital Content Voucher Benefits & Generate Online Ad Revenue to Support Student Programs and Activities
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Contact James V. Crocco, CEO Telephone (214) 773-2929
Email jcrocco@appdigio.com Website www.appdigio.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2014
KELLER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SELECTS APPDIGIO MOBILITY
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM TO MANAGE 35,000 DEVICES
Cloud-based Solution Helps Texas School District Reduce Costs, Increase Digital Content
Voucher Benefits & Generate Online Ad Revenue to Support Student Programs and Activities
Dallas, TX, August 20, 2014—Keller Independent School District (ISD) of Keller, Texas announced today that it
has selected the Appdigio™ Mobility Lifecycle Management™ platform to manage the mobile devices and
content of its 35,000 students, teachers, and staff members. The Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management
platform enables organizations of virtually any size to manage digital educational content vouchers, Apple and
Android educational applications, digital textbooks, and the devices that run them. The Mobility Lifecycle
Management platform from Appdigio helps significantly reduce technology-related costs and increase voucher
utilization efficiency by empowering teachers and staff with more control over devices and education content.
The explosion of one-to-one (1:1) initiatives and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in all levels of public and
private education has created new challenges for organizations across the country. School and university 1:1
initiatives are based on students and teachers using a mobile device such as a laptop, tablet, or smart phone to
access online resources, digital course materials, and digital textbooks. BYOD is often contrasted with 1:1
because BYOD focuses on the student providing his or her own device, but both strategies involve each student
and teacher using a mobile device as the primary tool for learning and teaching.
Joe Griffin, CIO of Keller Independent School District, elaborated on the decision to select Appdigio as the
district’s mobile device management (MDM) solution provider:
“Appdigio provides a robust and unique solution to the challenge school districts have in
procuring and managing apps. After implementing Appdigio in our district, we were able to
fold the separate processes of MDM, voucher management, and application management
into a customizable, on-line store that is easily managed by students and staff. A huge bonus
is the ability to generate additional revenue for our campuses and district from the online
advertising component. Appdigio is definitely a game-changer for our district’s enterprise
application procurement and management efforts.”
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When a device is lost or otherwise compromised, Keller ISD uses the Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management
platform to trace the device and even erase the device’s applications and associated files. This high level of
control helps the district to recover and redeploy textbook and application licenses to other students, which
saves money and ensures content vouchers are used efficiently across all devices. Plus, Appdigio’s platform
includes a comprehensive online advertising component that lets the district earn revenue from ads on
associated Web pages that it chooses. The cloud-based Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform
means Keller ISD can meet the growing demands of mobile device and content management while generating
revenue to continue and expand educational, sports, arts, and other programs and activities.
“Managing a mobile enterprise is not just the role of the IT department,” said Appdigio Chief
Executive Officer Jim Crocco. “We try to think beyond how to simply restrict a device or its
applications to how to empower users to be more productive. The key, especially for
educational institutions, is to provide a total solution that works within the limited budgetary
and staffing levels that most schools deal with today.”
With the days of printed textbook quickly coming to an end, educational institutions like Keller ISD must support
and manage more and more devices, a growing variety of applications (apps), and a constant stream of requests
for apps from users. The Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management platform allows Keller ISD to instantly
centralize the management of all mobile devices and applications with seamless integration of existing
education content programs from providers like Apple, Google, and others. The Mobility Lifecycle Management
platform helps Keller ISD remain at the forefront of educational MDM by managing devices and content across
all functional teams.
About Appdigio, Inc.
Appdigio, Inc. is a Dallas-based mobile device management (MDM) solution provider focused on multi-tiered
device and application management, including spend allocation, application selection, approval, and
distribution, and centralized device management. The cloud-based Appdigio Mobility Lifecycle Management™
platform helps organizations of all sizes replace expensive, cumbersome, non-integrated enterprise system
software with organization-wide ticketing systems, inventory control, digital lockers for integration with third-
party content providers such as Apple and Google, internal communication systems, and revenue-generating
online ad opportunities via custom Enterprise App Stores. For more information and to schedule an on-site
demonstration for your school district or organization, please visit http://www.appdigio.com/contact.
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For more information please contact James Crocco, CEO, Appdigio, Inc. at jcrocco@appdigio.com or call (214)
773-2929.
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