Case Study: Surrey School District achieves automated inventory, software compliance and IT time & cost savings with Absolute Software

Surrey School District uses Absolute to automate processes, saving the IT Department time & money

Surrey School District, the largest district in British Columbia serving 65,000 students across 99 elementary schools, 18 secondary schools and six learning centres, needed an endpoint security solution that supported Mac OS X and could replace a labour‑intensive annual “true up” inventory of 12,800 desktops and 800 notebooks. The IT team of 55 faced lengthy, manual visits to every school to verify hardware, configurations and software licensing, and sought an automated way to ensure license compliance and accurate asset records.

Implementing Absolute gave Surrey automated daily reports of hardware and software changes, removing the need for physical inspections and enabling proactive lifecycle management. The district now verifies software compliance on each device, automates inventory and true‑up processes, frees IT staff to focus on student and teacher needs, and reduces the risk of non‑compliance and related costs.

Surrey School District

Dan Turner

Director of Information Technology