Two years ago at Cannon School, we began a journey of consolidating our inventory of technology equipment from a great many spreadsheets into a single database solution.
We had spreadsheets detailing personal equipment (both staff/faculty and student), classroom equipment, and infrastructure equipment.
Our IT Department worked to put these spreadsheets together, as we noticed more and more equipment that was unaccounted for.
We realized there was not an effective way to track the equipment once it was placed on the list.
Surely, we thought, there must already be tool somewhere for tracking school technology inventories, and we only needed to do the research to find it. We were wrong.
Because we couldn’t find an existing solution that fit our needs, our IT Director, Bill Donovan, created one using Filemaker.
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