Giving schools the confidence they need to create outstanding, progressive teaching and learning environments.

A Dataspire Managed Service
The Dataspire Managed Service has been designed so that your staff can get on and do what they do best, while we take responsibility for the IT infrastructure which everything in your school connects to; such as lesson delivery and display, your Management Information System (MIS) for registration and attendance, cashless payments, your cloud services e.g. G Suite or Microsoft 365, your hardware, security and safeguarding e.g. back-ups, antivirus, monitoring and filtering, your broadband, your door entry systems, in fact most of the things that your school now relies on to function.
Your staff will have instant access to a friendly, SLA driven support team who are ready to help resolve any ICT challenges, fast. Your entire school ICT infrastructure will be well maintained, secure, reliable, and as a result, will create increased user confidence for all staff using ICT
Dataspire Managed Service features:
- Defined Service Level Agreement (SLAs)
- Part-Time or Full-Time onsite technician(s)
- A team of backup technicians to cover absences
- UK based Service Desk – Sunday to Friday
- Incident Management
- Change Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- 24/7/365 System Monitoring
- Defined escalation process
- Proactive system maintenance
- Vulnerability Management
- Back Up and Restore
- Asset Management
- 3rd Party System Management such as cashless payment or broadband provider
- Procurement Management to save the school money and for accurate budgeting
- Service reporting
- Regular Service Reviews
- User satisfaction surveys
- System Health Checks
- Digital strategy and development support
- Ofsted system readiness checks
Contact us to discuss the benefits of adopting a Managed Service for your school.
1. Understand requirements
We always start the process with some questions. Why do you think you need a Managed Service? Do you already have a Managed Service but are looking to leave your current provider? Are you experiencing problems with your IT department? Do you have issues with your IT system? Are you building a completely new school and need help from the ground up? In essence, what problems are you trying to solve? We need to work in close partnership with our schools and a vital part of the process is for us to gain a clear understanding of your current arrangements and how we can help.
2. Current state analysis
The only way to start is to understand what ICT you have and how well it is performing. Dataspire will come in and review the entire ICT infrastructure. We will share with you what we find in terms of what is good, what could be improved and what needs replacing. We will also create a critical risk register and current state report including any components which are unable to be covered by an SLA such as Microsoft Windows 7, which is no longer supported by Microsoft and as a result is a major security risk should this continue to be used by the school.
3. Service configuration
Once appointed, Dataspire will begin setting up your new Managed Service. There are several things we will need to do before we can go live to facilitate a successful service transition. These include setting up remote access tools, importing all system users in to the Dataspire service desk, exporting all live ticket issues to ensure any outstanding queries are completed, setting up the remote monitoring tools and ensuring we have all the administrator passwords to your systems to be able to operate them fully.
4. IT staff training
Assessing IT staff training needs within the school is an essential requirement of any successful Managed Service transition. Working closely with you, Dataspire will deliver a complete training schedule to ensure any of your retained IT staff are ready to support users. Once we have identified any skills gaps, we can design and deliver in-house training on topics such as how to engage with teachers, resolving any problems, and updating process skills.
5. Service launch
Before the launch of your new Dataspire Managed Service, our leadership team will present to the school. It is vital for a successful service delivery that we are visible to the whole school and that staff have confidence that we will support them and quickly resolve any ICT problems they are experiencing. We work in true partnership with a school and this high level of visibility, accountability, and approachability, including onsite technicians and a sector leading SLA, is what makes working with Dataspire different to other Managed Service providers. During this session we will introduce ourselves and outline what we are here to do and how the new Managed Service will operate. We will define how staff can log any ICT issues they are experiencing, and our SLA promise which is our commitment to fixing any problems fast.
6. Proactive and reactive resolution of issues
Dataspire takes a proactive approach to the resolution of common ICT problems experienced by your school and over time we will be aiming to pre-empt as many as possible before they arise. Initially the service will be reactive but through the examination of early report data, and based on our extensive experience, we can interrogate the problems we are seeing, understand why are we seeing them and what we can do to prevent them, thus reducing the number of issues in the long term.
7. Service reviews
A vital part of a Dataspire Managed Service is the continuous, honest examination of our performance. We will sit down with your senior leadership team at regular intervals to discuss areas for improvement. This conversation will be driven by the responses to a comprehensive user survey and real-time help desk data to get a complete picture of what is going on. We will be able to show whether we are delivering a good quality service and meeting our SLA’s. We will examine how the Managed Service is used and be able to see whether you have experienced a reduction in the problems occurring. Out of these reviews we will identify and agree an action plan to address any training requirements and any necessary service modifications.
8. ICT strategic support
A vital part of a Dataspire Managed Service is the continuous, honest examination of our performance. We will sit down with your senior leadership team at regular intervals to discuss areas for improvement. This conversation will be driven by the responses to a comprehensive user survey and real-time help desk data to get a complete picture of what is going on. We will be able to show whether we are delivering a good quality service and meeting our SLA’s. We will examine how the Managed Service is used and be able to see whether you have experienced a reduction in the problems occurring. Out of these reviews we will identify and agree an action plan to address any training requirements and any necessary service modifications.
1. Understand requirements
We always start the process with some questions. Why do you think you need a Managed Service? Do you already have a Managed Service but are looking to leave your current provider? Are you experiencing problems with your IT department? Do you have issues with your IT system? Are you building a completely new school and need help from the ground up? In essence, what problems are you trying to solve? We need to work in close partnership with our schools and a vital part of the process is for us to gain a clear understanding of your current arrangements and how we can help.
2. Current state analysis
The only way to start is to understand what ICT you have and how well it is performing. Dataspire will come in and review the entire ICT infrastructure. We will share with you what we find in terms of what is good, what could be improved and what needs replacing. We will also create a critical risk register and current state report including any components which are unable to be covered by an SLA such as Microsoft Windows 7, which is no longer supported by Microsoft and as a result is a major security risk should this continue to be used by the school.
3. Service configuration
Once appointed, Dataspire will begin setting up your new Managed Service. There are several things we will need to do before we can go live to facilitate a successful service transition. These include setting up remote access tools, importing all system users in to the Dataspire service desk, exporting all live ticket issues to ensure any outstanding queries are completed, setting up the remote monitoring tools and ensuring we have all the administrator passwords to your systems to be able to operate them fully.
4. IT staff training
Assessing IT staff training needs within the school is an essential requirement of any successful Managed Service transition. Working closely with you, Dataspire will deliver a complete training schedule to ensure any of your retained IT staff are ready to support users. Once we have identified any skills gaps, we can design and deliver in-house training on topics such as how to engage with teachers, resolving any problems, and updating process skills.
5. Service launch
Before the launch of your new Dataspire Managed Service, our leadership team will present to the school. It is vital for a successful service delivery that we are visible to the whole school and that staff have confidence that we will support them and quickly resolve any ICT problems they are experiencing. We work in true partnership with a school and this high level of visibility, accountability, and approachability, including onsite technicians and a sector leading SLA, is what makes working with Dataspire different to other Managed Service providers. During this session we will introduce ourselves and outline what we are here to do and how the new Managed Service will operate. We will define how staff can log any ICT issues they are experiencing, and our SLA promise which is our commitment to fixing any problems fast.
6. Proactive and reactive resolution of issues
Dataspire takes a proactive approach to the resolution of common ICT problems experienced by your school and over time we will be aiming to pre-empt as many as possible before they arise. Initially the service will be reactive but through the examination of early report data, and based on our extensive experience, we can interrogate the problems we are seeing, understand why are we seeing them and what we can do to prevent them, thus reducing the number of issues in the long term.
7. Service reviews
A vital part of a Dataspire Managed Service is the continuous, honest examination of our performance. We will sit down with your senior leadership team at regular intervals to discuss areas for improvement. This conversation will be driven by the responses to a comprehensive user survey and real-time help desk data to get a complete picture of what is going on. We will be able to show whether we are delivering a good quality service and meeting our SLA’s. We will examine how the Managed Service is used and be able to see whether you have experienced a reduction in the problems occurring. Out of these reviews we will identify and agree an action plan to address any training requirements and any necessary service modifications.
8. ICT strategic support
A vital part of a Dataspire Managed Service is the continuous, honest examination of our performance. We will sit down with your senior leadership team at regular intervals to discuss areas for improvement. This conversation will be driven by the responses to a comprehensive user survey and real-time help desk data to get a complete picture of what is going on. We will be able to show whether we are delivering a good quality service and meeting our SLA’s. We will examine how the Managed Service is used and be able to see whether you have experienced a reduction in the problems occurring. Out of these reviews we will identify and agree an action plan to address any training requirements and any necessary service modifications.
Considering a Managed ICT Service for your school?

Case Studies

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