Case Study: Texas A&M AgriLife speeds PC deployment and cuts IT costs with SmartDeploy

Texas A&M AgriLife centralized procurement with SmartDeploy and saved 16% of the annual IT budget

Texas A&M AgriLife, a Texas state agency for agricultural education with 5,000 employees, faced an unsustainable and slow IT procurement process. With decentralized purchasing and no standardized software, deploying new PCs could take up to three weeks and required onsite visits for remote software installation, creating significant inefficiencies for its large, distributed organization.

By implementing SmartDeploy, the agency centralized its IT procurement and streamlined PC imaging. The solution used SmartDeploy's Platform Packs and a virtual environment to create hardware-agnostic images, which drastically accelerated deployment and repair. This allowed Texas A&M AgriLife to provision new, fully configured PCs on the same day, saving between $130,000 and $150,000 annually in labor overhead and reducing the PC rebuild time from days to approximately 20 minutes.

Texas A&M AgriLife

Alan Kurk

CIO of Information Technology