Parago Software… The Story So Far

All three directors and shareholders, who have invested over £1,000,000 in Parago Software, have successful backgrounds in the sales, finance and management of hi-tech industries.

In September 2004, following six months consultation with LAs and schools across England, the company commenced the development of Parago. Extensive testing in six partner schools allowed Parago to be launched in January 2006.

Nearly three years on, we now work with schools across 17 LAs and have more schools using Parago than any other asset management system. We work with the leading suppliers to education such as XMA, Civica, Ramesys and Stone Computers and now have schools in France and the Cayman Islands.

Our Goal

Working alongside FAST and Microsoft, our goal is to raise awareness about the cost savings achieved from effective asset management in schools and the necessity of keeping schools compliant. We aim to provide a solution that exceeds the expectations of all LAs and schools, and most importantly provide a cost effective complete asset management solution.

Software vendors such as Microsoft have long wished for schools to have an affordable automated system to manage their software assets as Steve Beswick, Microsoft UK education director, comments: “Managing and tracking software assets within an educational institution is becoming time consuming and expensive, especially as the complexity of IT systems increase. Until now the sector has lacked a fully web based software asset management system, designed in conjunction with educational users, that monitors computers via the internet. Schools can save considerable time and money by having an automated license management system and Parago appears to offer a very easy to use solution that can simplify asset management, saving time and money in the process.”