Your Catalyst for Advancing Higher Education
Collaborating with your IT leaders and staff, Zones can help you deploy technologies that enhance services for students, faculty, and researchers while hitting your targets for performance and spending.
Zones' comprehensive IT services and solutions enable colleges and universities to navigate data security threats, overcome staffing limitations, seamlessly integrate digital platforms, and enforce robust data governance.
It's a story of digital transformation... of educators adapting to evolving student needs... and growing in their roles as mentors and leaders.
Digital transformation is also about the business of education, enabling your institution to:
- Optimize operations, including streamlining administrative processes, automating tasks, and optimizing resource allocation for greater efficiency
- Unlock new opportunities for growth
- Enhance your institution's reputation for innovation in education
As your higher education IT partner, Zones can free you from the complexities of modernizing your IT systems and implementing technology that ultimately shapes a future-ready education.
"The Zones Higher Education team can accelerate your digital transformation by leveraging our expertise in education IT and specialized knowledge in contracting and contract administration."
Overcoming tech challenges: Our expertise is your advantage.
Digital Integration
Seamlessly integrate diverse systems, platforms, and applications to enhance collaboration, communication, and operational efficiency.
On-prem, in the cloud, and hybrid, Zones' IT integration specialists are OEM certified to build customized IT and data center solutions that enable different systems to communicate, share data, and work together effectively.
Data Security and Compliance
Protect sensitive information, defend against cyberthreats, and ensure compliance with stringent data protection regulations.
Zones' IT solutions incorporate state-of-the-art cybersecurity measures to safeguard information and prevent unauthorized access, including:
- Managed security operation centers for 24x7x365 monitoring
- Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
- Security assessment services
- Security compliance services
- Firewalls
- Intrusion detection systems
- Data encryption
- Identity and access management
We also offer assessments for security risk, Zero Trust, and IT security management and controls that provide strategic guidance and metrics for maturing your cybersecurity program.
Data Governance
Establish comprehensive policies, protocols, and frameworks to effectively manage data assets, ensure privacy, and enable informed decision-making.
Zones' expert advisors and service providers will collaborate with your IT team to implement guidelines for data stewardship, ownership, and decision-making regarding data usage and governance. This includes implementing data analytics tools and platforms that support reporting, data visualization, and advanced analytics for evidence-based decision-making.
Zones services and solutions include:
Digital Workplace Solutions
Take advantage of our end-to-end workplace transformation and management services to drive secure, immersive, and collaborative experiences.
Overburdened IT help desks. Disengaged remote workers. Non-compliance with digital policies. Zones can help you overcome those digital workplace challenges and more with services and solutions that benefit every facet of your operations.
IT Staffing
Overcome staffing shortages and access a skilled IT team with deep knowledge and expertise.
Leverage our strategic, short-term staffing contracts to cover for vacationing staff, provide supplemental support during peaks in your educational cycle, or fill skill gaps for specific projects.
Accelerate your digital transformation.
The Zones Higher Education team can accelerate your digital transformation by leveraging our expertise in education IT and specialized knowledge in contracting and contract administration.
We're notoriously nimble and future-focused. Our customer-centered approach is all about solving your complex IT problems TODAY with complete solutions that can transition TOMORROW as your needs change.
Our proven process delivers innovative, best-in-class IT solutions for colleges and universities.
Our Assess, Design, Implement, Manage (ADIM) framework ensures a reliable and repeatable process for creating cost-effective solutions that increase efficiency, optimize workflows, and enhance your return on investment.
We combine proven methodologies, best practices, and a cloud-based management platform to deliver IT services efficiently while minimizing disruptions to school operations.
We don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Our strategic partnerships give us the flexibility to design customized higher ed IT solutions based on your institution's unique needs, challenges, and vision for the future.
Our IT Rollout Services will bring order and efficiency to your digital transformation. Zones' expert team can do the heavy lifting while saving you time and money.
Optimize your higher education workflows and empower students to excel in the digital age. With our SaaS Implementation and Migration Services, we can help you deliver applications directly to students via the Internet – eliminating the need to install and maintain the software on your college or university campus.
Build a higher education model for long-term success.
After more than 35 years in business, Zones is securely positioned to be the IT partner you can rely on to help you transform the learning experience, enhance operational efficiency, and promote institutional growth.
Our clients are the center of everything we do – and we have so much more to offer beyond what we've covered here. For example:
- Zones Innovation Center, a unique virtual platform where you can collaborate with our Solution Architects and co-create proof of concepts in real-time
- Powerful digital tools that simplify IT procurement and management
- Five-Star Service commitment
As a global solutions provider of end-to-end IT solutions, our mission is to help drive your success through innovation, agility, and trust.
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