Signage ONE powered by LyncVerse Technologies has revolutionized Prairie View A&M University’s Athletic Department with engaging digital signage, spotlighting student and sport GPAs. This innovative approach fosters a competitive spirit, igniting a friendly academic rivalry not only among students but also between sports teams within the department. By prominently displaying academic achievements alongside athletic prowess, our digital signage encourages athletes to excel both on the field and in the classroom. Signage ONE provides full service digital signage where we work with PVAMU Athletics to create expert content on a custom designed layout, develop message strategy, and professionally manage their system with ongoing support. 

With Signage ONE’s dynamic displays, Prairie View A&M University’s Athletic Department celebrates the achievements of its student-athletes while inspiring them to reach new heights of success, both academically and athletically. The benefits of digital signage go beyond university settings to individual departments, where they serve as invaluable tools for communication, education, and engagement between majors. Digital signage can be utilized for a variety of purposes, including displaying important announcements, showcasing student achievements, promoting upcoming events, and enhancing learning experiences through interactive content. By leveraging dynamic digital displays, schools can create a visually stimulating environment that captures the attention of students, staff, and visitors within and across departments of a university. 

Additionally, digital signage allows for real-time updates and flexibility in content delivery, enabling schools to adapt quickly to changing needs and circumstances. Whether it’s reinforcing school values, fostering a sense of community, or facilitating efficient communication, digital signage proves to be a versatile and effective solution for enhancing the educational experience.

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For 10 years LyncVerse Technologies has been a full-service Information Technology provider of hardware, software, and professional services focused on empowering organizations to capitalize on the latest Technologies to solve your business challenges. A reliable HUB partner with expertise in both IT and Audio Visual, LyncVerse Technologies ensures seamless integration, optimal performance, and ongoing support, making us a reliable partner for businesses seeking innovative and efficient technology solutions.

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LyncVerse Technologies provides industry leading solutions by building a deep technical expertise with a focused set of best of breed partners.

Workspace & Mobility

• Configure IT equipment: Expert setup and configuration of all your IT hardware.
• Warehouse corporate assets before deployment: Secure storage of your assets until they are ready for use.
• Save time and money: Efficient processes designed to reduce costs and time.
• Simplify hardware procurement and deployment: Streamlined services to make acquiring and deploying hardware easy and hassle-free.

Pro Audio-Visual

• Audio, video, and control systems: Comprehensive solutions for all your AV needs.
• State-of-the-art products: Cutting-edge technology for superior performance.
• Empowering technology: Equip your business with advanced tools to excel.
• Stand out and provide enriching experiences: Enhance your offerings and differentiate your business.

Digital Signage by Signage ONE

• All-inclusive digital signage service: Comprehensive solution for all your signage needs.
• Streamlined content creation to ongoing support: Easy process from creating content to maintaining displays.
• Deliver messages across your environment: Ensure consistent communication throughout your space.
• Enrich visual experiences: Create engaging and dynamic visual content.
• Communicate real-time information with digital displays: Share timely updates and important information instantly.

Network & Data Center

• Years of experience in advanced network infrastructure: Proven expertise in deploying complex networks.
• Performance-driven and flexible solutions: High-performance networks tailored to your needs.
• Industry-leading networking vendors: Access to top-tier technology from renowned suppliers.
• Expert engineers for design, implementation, and maintenance: Skilled professionals to ensure optimal network performance.

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In today's fast-paced business world, effective communication is key to Growing your business. Signage ONE powered by LyncVerse is here to help you elevate your business by providing a comprehensive digital signage As-A-Service solutions where we take care of everything for you from Strategy to Screen, allowing you to focus on what you do best: running your business.

“If you build it, they will Come”

A comprehensive digital playlist of the key takeaways you want every customer to know about your organization is key to growing your business.  Imagine if you had the opportunity to have your best salesperson speak personally to every customer who (Visited/Engaged/Entered) your business, that’s what Signage ONE delivers via custom created digital content via Digital Signage.  What impact do you think that would have on your existing customers and potential clients?

WHY CHOOSE SIGNAGE ONE?

Inform Your Customers

Our digital signage solutions ensure that your customers are always in the loop. Whether it's updating them on new arrivals, providing essential information, or highlighting upcoming events, our dynamic displays capture attention and convey your message clearly and effectively.

Promote Your Specials

Boost your sales by promoting your special offers and discounts through our eye-catching digital signage. With vivid displays and engaging content, you can drive customer interest and increase foot traffic to your store or establishment.

Increase Customer Retention

The fastest way to grow any business is to focus on delivering value to your existing customers.  Keep your customers coming back with targeted, personalized messaging that reinforces your value proposition. Signage ONE creates a welcoming environment that resonates with your audience, building loyalty and encouraging repeat business.

Educate Your Visitors

Our digital signage is an excellent tool for educating visitors about your products, services, employees, and company values. Use our platforms to share your story, showcase your achievements, promote your investments and communicate your vision, making a lasting impression on everyone who walks through your doors.

Stay Connected Internally

Signage ONE isn't just for customer-facing messages. It's also a powerful way to keep your internal teams informed and engaged. Spread important updates, company news, and motivational messages to employees, ensuring everyone stays connected and aligned with your business goals.

Award-Winning Content Creation

At Signage ONE, we pride ourselves on delivering award-winning content with custom layout designs tailored to your brand. Don’t have in-house staff to create and manage your digital signage content internally?  Our experts collaborate with your team to deliver captivating content that works on every screen size. We use a mix of interactive and non-interactive content, motion graphics and static images, along with RSS feeds and local content. 

Interior Design Services

Signage ONE Design provides a turn-key service, including office pre-design consultation, design presentations of layout and graphics and selection of furnishings all the way through manufacturing and installation– all coordinated and managed by one team.  We are experts in creating modern, flexible social areas in lounges, meetings, nooks, and multipurpose rooms. Signage ONE can bring your brand to life using high impact graphics, murals, and window decals to elevate company pride in areas such as receptions, lunchrooms, dining, atriums, and hallways.

Cutting-Edge Technology and Security

Our state-of-the-art digital signage solutions are powered by Hewlett Packard’s EliteDesk media players and secured by HP Wolf Security to ensure endpoint security.  You can trust Signage ONE to provide a secure, robust, and efficient communication platform for your business.

Professional Support

If you have a problem, we’re there to solve it.  Our team of Signage professionals remotely monitor your environment ensuring your messages get delivered.  Our Signage Specialist handles deployment, scheduling, maintenance, and ongoing support, ensuring your digital signage operates smoothly and effectively.

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By choosing Signage ONE, you're not just getting a signage provider; you're gaining a partner dedicated to helping your business thrive. Communicate your vision, share your culture, and grow your brand with our comprehensive digital signage solutions. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help elevate your business to new heights.

Asset Management for Higher Ed: Navigating Tech Procurement in Universities
Technology procurement in higher education is a complex task, given the scale and diverse needs of modern universities. It demands careful planning and execution to ensure that investments align with educational goals and deliver long-term benefits. We partner closely with several universities—let’s talk about the critical steps and unique considerations that we’ve helped them navigate to update their devices.

Identifying Needs and Setting Standards
We’re familiar with all of the common procurement shortcuts. Before coming to us, some customers learn the hard way that buying workstations directly from a retail chain will save them money in the short term, but will pigeonhole them into a one-size-fits-all solution. LyncVerse, meanwhile, takes a more personalized approach to IT procurement. Even within higher education, every institution has unique needs. We engage with various stakeholders, including faculty, IT staff, and students, to gather comprehensive insights into how technology is currently used and the gaps that need addressing—even across multiple departments and facilities.

During the procurement process, our experts conduct a thorough analysis of how new equipment will be used. This includes evaluating software requirements, performance needs, connectivity, and even factors like mobility and touch-screen functionality. We do this to match the right device with the right user, but also to avoid the common pitfalls of overspending or underspecifying—ensuring that you invest in technology that truly fits your needs without unnecessary expense.

We start by understanding your user personas: who will be using your devices day-to-day? These detailed profiles describe the specific requirements of different types of users. Your educators may need a reliable, high-performance workstation, while your students need something a bit more portable and rugged. LyncVerse ensures that each recommendation is tailored to the user’s actual needs. A laptop you buy straight off the shelf can’t speak to that level of detail or nuance, and puts the pressure on your employees to shape their needs around the capabilities of the device rather than the other way around. We then create tailored standards for maximizing performance, efficiency, and budget.

Unique Considerations for Higher Education
Universities must consider several unique factors during the tech procurement process, including:

- Scale and Diversity: The scale of procurement in higher education can be vast, sometimes encompassing thousands of devices across several campuses. Each department may have different technological needs, requiring a procurement process that can handle high complexity and diversity.

-Budget Constraints: Universities often operate under tight budget constraints, making cost-effectiveness a crucial consideration. Strategic planning and choosing the right partners can help maximize the value of every dollar spent.

-Compliance and Security: Higher education institutions must adhere to strict compliance and security standards, especially concerning student data. Your tech fleet must meet these standards to avoid security issues down the road.

It’s highly useful and valuable to partner with an asset management expert, like LyncVerse, because we will take these unique considerations into account for you. No need to worry about details falling through the cracks, or resources being wasted, when you have an experienced partner to walk you through the whole process.

Deployment and Ongoing Management
Deployment services are critical, especially in large institutions where technology needs to be set up across multiple locations. At LyncVerse, our approach ensures that all computer assets arrive ready to deploy; we offer asset-tagging, etching, software pre-loading, and anything else that will guarantee that your deployment is successful. We’re here to save our customers time and expense from purchase order to productivity.

We also provide another crucial service through ongoing asset management support, which include BIOS configuration, image support, and warranty support. These services are highly valuable for maintaining devices throughout their lifecycle, and ensuring they continue to meet your institution’s evolving needs. And, these are services that often fall by the wayside when universities choose to purchase devices directly from a retailer, or allocate maintenance responsibilities as an afterthought to their IT team.

Choose a Strong Partner
Effective tech procurement in higher education is not just about purchasing technology; it's about strategic asset management that aligns with your institution's goals, and enhances educational outcomes. By partnering with an organization like LyncVerse, universities can navigate these challenges more effectively, ensuring that their technology investments deliver both immediate and long-term benefits for their students, their faculty, and their administrative team.

Computing Trends for Higher Education Learning Environments
It's important to us at LyncVerse to stay on top of the trends and industry shifts that impact our clients. Within higher education, there have been some rapid changes in the last five years or so—from remote learning, to AI integrations. Let’s go through a few of the pivotal trends that we see shaping the future of higher education.

Changes to Hybrid and Remote Learning
The adoption of hybrid and remote learning environments has been one of the most transformative trends ever in higher education, a shift accelerated by the pandemic and sustained by a demand for flexibility. Universities have moved beyond emergency remote teaching strategies and are now embracing sophisticated digital platforms that can handle seamless transitions between in-person and online experiences. Hybrid and remote education also open up more possibilities for different ways of learning: it’s easier than ever before for people to get degrees or professional certifications, or to attend bootcamps in a way that is convenient to their schedules and learning styles.

Hybrid learning environments also create a broader reach, allowing universities to engage with international students who can attend lectures virtually without geographical constraints. This flexibility helps students who can’t be in person to tailor their schedules around their location or personal commitments, promoting a more inclusive educational landscape.

Amongst our customers, we find that institutions of higher learning are looking for devices for both educators and students that are rugged, durable, and versatile: able to provide a strong remote connection from a variety of environments, and able to handle cloud computing for sharing documents. They’re looking for technical support that securely and effectively manages devices across many locations, with synced updates, proactive repair, and organized management.

Increased Use of Data and Analytics
Data-driven decision-making is becoming a cornerstone of higher education learning outcomes and overall strategies. Institutions are harnessing the power of big data and analytics to not only streamline administrative processes but also to enhance academic outcomes. Through the analysis of learning data, universities can identify patterns and trends that help in personalizing the educational experience to better meet students’ needs.

This trend includes predictive analytics, which can forecast student performance. For K-12 education, predictive analytics can provide early interventions to keep students on track and identify those who are at-risk. For higher education, analytics can help improve student retention and the quality of instruction. Additionally, data analytics supports the optimization of resources across campuses, from managing library assets to allocating study spaces more effectively. By transforming raw data into actionable insights, universities are creating more efficient and responsive learning environments.

When it comes to data analytics, our customers need devices with fast and powerful computing power, with software that is regularly synced and well-managed in order to gather accurate data.

Focus on Security and Privacy
As educational institutions increasingly rely on digital platforms, the importance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated. The threat landscape in higher education is increasingly complex, with universities facing risks ranging from data breaches exposing sensitive student information to ransomware attacks that can cripple entire networks. There is a growing emphasis on strengthening cybersecurity protocols and infrastructure to protect both institutional data and the privacy of individuals.

 Efforts to enhance security are often centered around developing comprehensive cybersecurity frameworks that include regular risk assessments, staff and student training in security best practices, and the adoption of advanced security technologies like multi-factor authentication and zero-trust policies. Institutions are also implementing stricter access controls and encryption to safeguard data transmitted across networks, which is essential when remote learning is involved, and devices are connecting from networks across the world.

The integration of advanced educational technologies and methodologies in higher education will not only enhance learning outcomes but also foster a more inclusive, flexible, and secure learning environment. The ongoing evolution in how universities teach and learn is not just about keeping pace with technological advancements but also about reimagining the potential of education to equip students for the future. The journey of learning is becoming more personalized, more accessible, and more connected than ever before, and requires devices that are more adaptable, transportable, and secure than ever before.

This journey is also made safer, more efficient, and more affordable with a device-as-a-service (DaaS) partner like LyncVerse. We provide proactive, white glove asset management support to customers around the world, customized to their goals and budgets. We’re proud to partner with HP to provide customers with devices that are industry-leading in their security, customizability, and power. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support you.

Simple Tips to Managing Data and Device Security for Higher Ed
As cyber threats evolve and become more sophisticated, universities find themselves increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. The surge in ransomware attacks in recent years highlights a pressing need for universities to reinforce their cybersecurity defenses. The impact of inadequate protection is felt strongly—on universities’ sensitive data as well as their reputation and financial stability. Below we’ll explore the cybersecurity challenges unique to higher education, identify common vulnerabilities, and discuss how asset management partners like LyncVerse can fortify university defenses against cyber threats.

The Growing Threat Landscape in Higher Education
The increase in cyberattacks on universities and institutions of higher learning is partly due to the expansive and often complex digital ecosystems that universities manage. These ecosystems encompass numerous endpoints: from administrative offices to expansive campus networks. The increasing reliance on remote and online learning platforms has extended the traditional network perimeter even further, making every user endpoint a potential weak link in security. The more endpoints you have, the more vulnerabilities you also have for a cybercriminal to exploit. Universities must keep a tight lock on all their endpoint devices, including faculty and student laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Another significant vulnerability to university networks is the high risk associated with third-party integrations. Universities frequently rely on external vendors for various services, from data processing to online learning platforms, each introducing potential security gaps that could lead to data breaches.

Essentially, universities have a large attack surface; each additional endpoint increases risk. These endpoints often lack consistent cybersecurity measures and may use diverse operating systems that require specific security configurations. To make matters more complicated, these extensive networks often include neglected sites and systems running on outdated software, which are more susceptible to exploitation. Cybersecurity for the higher education sector is notoriously underfunded, and IT departments often struggle to keep pace with the rapid advancements in cyber threat tactics.

Leveraging Asset Management for Enhanced Security
Partnering with a comprehensive asset management firm can significantly mitigate these risks. These service providers specialize in tailoring cybersecurity solutions to the unique needs of higher education, offering services that range from initial cybersecurity assessments to ongoing threat monitoring and response. Services that we believe all universities would benefit from include:

-Comprehensive Asset Management: Tracking and managing all device lifecycles within the institution, ensuring that each device is up to date with the latest security patches and configurations.

-Proactive Attack Surface Reduction: Identifying and decommissioning dormant or unnecessary internet-facing assets to minimize potential entry points for cyber attackers.

-Advanced Endpoint Protection: Implementing robust security measures tailored to the diverse ecosystem of devices and operating systems within university networks.

-Vendor Integration: We help universities to integrate third-party vendor software to ensure security, compliance, and long-term effectiveness.

Choosing the Right Endpoints
A crucial part of higher ed cybersecurity includes choosing the right devices; the endpoints you choose can truly make or break your security plan. There are many excellent options out there, but we particularly want to highlight HP Wolf Security. One of the key features of HP endpoints is the ability to self-heal from an attack. Integrated into HP devices, Wolf Security provides a hardware-enforced security layer that can isolate suspicious files in micro-virtual containers, preventing your entire device from being overcome by a virus. HP Wolf Security implements a zero-trust policy, assuming no entity within a network is trustworthy until verified, which provides a strong defense against phishing and malware attacks. Considering that up to 95% of cyberattacks have been attributed to user error, it’s a good plan to invest in devices that can do some of the protecting for you.

Choose the Right Partner
It’s increasingly important for the education sector to invest proactively in cybersecurity: there’s too much at risk. By understanding your unique risks, embracing comprehensive asset management solutions like the ones we offer, and strategically investing in the right devices, universities can significantly enhance their defense against cyber threats.