Six years ago the Parago founders believed that schools needed an automated system to address the issue of asset management. Many schools struggle to manage their asset estate manually with a spreadsheet or books, and departments do not always work together to enable efficient management and procurement planning of assets.

At the product's inception, the directors consulted the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust as it wished to work with a leading and forward thinking secondary school. The trust recommended Arnewood School in Hampshire. The relationship between Arnewood and Parago continues today, and has worked well for both parties. Arnewood is now an academy, and they have made a significant investment in recent years in information technology. The school has an innovative family laptop programme that allows students to make use of a personal computer for their learning in school and at home. The Arnewood School was redesignated with Technology College status in April 2007 and contributes widely to the development of community learning through the provision of adult classes and partnership work with other schools and colleges. In 2008 the school's community provision was recognised with the presentation of a Future Visions Award by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

The old saying of 'good service retains clients' is as true today as it's always been.

In the five years that we have provided asset management solutions to schools and business, we have retained over 85% of customers each year. More recently, that has been helped by selecting solution partners that give first rate support and service behind the product.

One such partner is Levett Consultancy, a London based IT Solutions company that has received testimonials from every school that it has provided support to during the past year. Levett Consultancy is owned by Paul Levett, who was the head of school systems support for Tower Hamlets for five years prior to setting up his company.

Parago was one of the systems that Paul rolled out to the Tower hamlets schools in 2008. So impressed by its ability to save schools time and money that he chose Parago as one of the four systems he now sells and supports from his own company.

Most schools business managers agree that asset management should be higher on their priority list, but often do not have the internal resources to implement such a system. That’s where Paul and his team score every time, providing a tailored service to suit the school’s needs. As part of their standard asset discovery service Levett Consultancy leave a fully populated Parago System that includes&

• Creating a virtual image of the school on Parago
• Taking two or three pictures of each room for insurance purposes
• Asset tagging and adding electrical items using asset icons
• Adding furniture and other inventory using asset icons
• Adding financial and technical data to each asset if provided
• Importing asset data from a spread sheet
• Setting up users and access permissions
• Setting up required reports
• Giving an overview of the system to users

Providing this kind of service enables schools to start saving money from day one. Amongst many other benefits, Parago will provide them with an accurate procurement forecast for the next 12 months and beyond. But don't take our word for it, here are some example comments from schools that have used Levett&

Greenshaw High School

Levettt Consultancy have recently assisted us with the installation of the Parago Asset Management system.

During this process we found all members of the team to be punctual,reliable,trustworthy and extremely approachable.

Following the installation we have seeked their assistance for technical support with the inputting and merging of existing data.

Also the team are always willing and helpful.

Greenacre School

I found them excellent to work with and very helpful. Also the follow up help is brilliant.

The explanation of how the system works was good, and I felt very much at ease working with all of the guys from Levett Consultancy.

Also I would recommend this system to other schools as it is up to date, and a modern approach to keeping track of your assets. Excellent service.

Blue Gates Field Junior School

'Levett revolutionised our asset management by organising out IT assets onto the Parago system. All this support has freed so much of my time so I can focus more on teaching, the children and the ICT curriculum.'

Cyril Jackson School

'A comprehensive asset management register was completed within a matter of days. I was able to confidently report this to Governors along with the advantages of being able to create various reports for the schools individual purposes.'

John Scurr Primary School

The staff at Levett Consultancy that put the asset management parago on our system were absolutely brilliant.

The software has proven to be an asset and an auditor found the reports easy to read and locate items. All schools should invest in the Parago product.

Osmani primary School

'I am now able to access the system and print off reports simply and quickly, I can create the specific reports that I need and it is very easy to track where items are and make additions or write offs when needed.'

Rachel Keeling Nursery School

'Levett consultancy has also been involved in supporting my school in saving money!'

Wroughton

Levett consultancy were very professional. The benefit of engaging their service was to help our school to enter all our electrical equipment onto the parago asset register, which was done quickly and efficiently. This task would have taken us days to complete which Levett consultancy completed within a day, which was fantastic.

So now there is no excuse for not getting your inventory into a proper asset management solution& email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it about a consultancy visit from Levett Consultancy today!

This summer saw resellers Levett Consultancy and European Electronique take off with Parago. Levett Consultancy now have 27 Parago installations across London, having only signed up as an authorised reseller in January 2011. They are conducting eight asset discovery services during the summer break, and case studies are coming through fast from schools full of praise. European Electronique signed up as a reseller in June and had their first two sales to schools in July.

Parago is a low cost solution that enables the reseller to maximise its profits with discovery and audit services. Schools recognise the need for an effective asset management solution, but often do not have the time to conduct the initial asset discovery. With the new phone apps linking to the Parago central system asset discovery and auditing services are made even easier. The iPad 2 and Android tablets also make a great discovery tool. This is because the auditor can combine multiple pictures of room layouts to help with insurance claims, and scan barcodes of electrical items. The discovery and audit service can also combine PAT testing where the qualified technician updates Parago with the testing results, keeping all asset information in one solution.

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