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

Texas A&M AgriLife speeds PC deployment to same-day delivery with SmartDeploy

Texas A&M AgriLife, a state agency for agricultural education with 5,000 employees across 290 locations, faced an unsustainable and decentralized PC procurement process. Their challenge included non-standard software installations and time-consuming deployments that required onsite visits, taking up to three weeks to get a new computer to a user. They turned to SmartDeploy's hardware-independent imaging software to address these issues.

By implementing SmartDeploy, Texas A&M AgriLife centralized its procurement and streamlined PC imaging and deployment. The solution enabled same-day PC provisioning at their central office and reduced the average time to repair or reimage a corrupted PC to just 20 minutes. This resulted in annual labor savings of $130,000 to $150,000, which was redirected to research support. SmartDeploy also facilitated easier operating system upgrades and allowed the IT team to manage hardware-agnostic images efficiently, leading to significant cost and time savings across the organization.

Texas A&M AgriLife