Why UPS is critical for your education customers – and how to boost your revenue by delivering it
With the ongoing energy crisis creating instability in power supplies, having a backup power solution has moved from ‘nice to have’ to ‘mission critical’ for education institutions. Modern classrooms and campuses rely more than ever on digital learning resources, records, and communications. Which means power outages can have a huge impact on the quality of education delivery. Teaching and learning suffers, sensitive data is put at risk of loss, and effective collaboration is hampered. It can even ruin an institution’s reputation.
This makes uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) essential to delivering dynamic learning experiences for a new generation of digital learners.
Education providers will typically maintain a hybrid infrastructure, combining on-premises and cloud-based systems, with critical apps and information on their own servers and data centres. To keep these running when power supplies fail, UPS is a must.
There are two key roles that UPS fulfils to protect these networks. First, it provides an instantaneous, break-free power supply in the event that mains power fails. Second, it protects equipment from surges and drops of voltage, as well as power shifts.
For your education customers, investing in UPS means investing in continuity of teaching and learning – whether they operate tens of schools as part of a multi-academy trust (MAT) or a large, distributed college campus. Students can access all the learning resources they need. Teachers are able to communicate seamlessly with students, parents and their peers. Faculty staff can keep data and records safe and always available, so vital administration processes aren’t affected.
In short, UPS ensures delivery of the high-quality education services that students and parents today expect.
Bringing consistent power to modern education settings with APC Smart-UPS
APC, a flagship brand of Schneider Electric, provides clean battery backup power, surge protection, and IT physical infrastructure ensuring data is available — whenever and wherever you need it. And APC Smart-UPS are the ultimate network protectors – trusted by education professionals around the globe.
When it comes to protecting equipment and critical data, APC is the intelligent choice for higher education institutions and MATs. Covering all network devices – from servers to switches – Smart-UPS gives your education customers confidence that they will easily navigate any outage.
The APC Smart-UPS portfolio covers standard, entry-level and extended run models, so you can match the right UPS solution to the needs of any-sized school, college, university or MAT.
Delivering UPS with the Ingram Micro value-add: 2 key benefits for education providers
Ingram Micro works in partnership with APC to make it easier than ever for you to offer the UPS solutions your education customers need, in the way that they need them.
Flexibility of finance is critical for education providers, especially those that run larger institutions with multiple facilities or operate several schools, such as MATs. IT purchasing and budgets in these scenarios can be extremely complex. Our finance solutions provide your customers with a financial model that suits their requirements: simple, adaptable, cost-efficient. And because the value-add of the Ingram Micro Finance proposition is so clear, it will secure your APC Smart-UPS sale that much faster.
We can also help you deliver all the benefits of UPS-as-a-service (UPSaaS) to your education customers. Organisations in all sectors are increasingly moving to as-a-service models because they provide flexibility and cost-efficiency, and it’s no different for education. UPSaaS provides flexible consumption of hardware and services combined in a single solution to make delivering UPS hassle-free for you and easy for schools, colleges and universities.
With APC and the Ingram Micro value add, you can deliver the best solutions to your education customers and get the most return from every UPS sales opportunity.
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