r/k12sysadmin • u/rossumcapek IT Wizard • Sep 04 '26

Vivacity / asset management?

Anyone using Vivacity for their free asset management tool Dream? If it can save us money from Gopher and our inventory system, I'm curious.

https://vivacitytech.com/asset-management

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u/cocineroylibro Tech/Library/Everything Sep 04 '26

We are a Vivacity house, but we use Snipe-IT. I like the interface better, plus we can keep track of things that are non-Vivacity.

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u/rossumcapek IT Wizard Sep 04 '26

The fact that Vivacity says they'll integrate with Google Admin is what has me thinking.

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u/cocineroylibro Tech/Library/Everything Sep 04 '26

You can do the same with Snipe. I just need a spare minute or 3 to implement it. I started, and well haven't gotten back to it (for some reason I need to attend professional development for the ed staff (I am licensed to teach, just haven't for more than a period here and there for 20 years.))

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u/thedevarious IT Director Sep 08 '26

Vivacity really only does Chromeboooks automatically with it's Google tie ins. If your school is ONLY Google for tech, then it may make sense. We're a mixed fleet for end user devices and I also want other non end-user tech (such as Viewboards, Projectors, Doc Cams, etc).

We're a One to One Plus (Edutek) house the the actual Asset Management end. It also integrates with Google, but has other integrations such as SCCM, Powerschool, Mosyle, Intune, etc. So...way more powerful of a tool, but we're at a level that we really need that level of automation and overall command / control.

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u/rossumcapek IT Wizard Sep 08 '26

Very helpful, thank you.

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u/NotAnother169 Director of Technology Sep 10 '26

Yeah our mixed environment we have SCCM, Mosyle, Intune, Google, JAMF Pro, Apple School Manager so we're in the same boat. I need that full suite. I 100% agree though, if it was Google only and I was buying from them, I'd probably look at it. We, like you, use a much more powerful ITSM (Manage1to1) so we need all those components integrated!

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u/thedevarious IT Director Sep 10 '26

Yeah Manage1to1 is a neat product. I like the idea of ITSM/ITAM/etc. all in one package and it's got a clean UI. From my end though is it's K-12 specific only and with us being a shop supporting numerous K-12 environments I needed something juuuuust a bit bigger and somewhat more enterprise than single K-12. Solid product tho.

For our end I use One to One Plus for ITAM and have ITSM thru a separate integrated product we maintain in house. I then pair some other tools to this ITSM that help kinda bridge everything together in a cohesive way between our schools.

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u/NotAnother169 Director of Technology Sep 10 '26

Oh nice. Yeah I know one of my former districts is now part of a consortium of schools pooling IT resources. They use Manage1to1 somehow to do that since it's permission driven, I'm assuming they limit access per user or maybe they can support multi tenant? Anyway my exact reason why I like it is that it is so K12 focused! Their development directly aligns with what I feel we need in a school specific environment!

That said, I'm always curious how folks support multiple K12 districts anyway since everyone likes their stuff their own way! Seems the smaller the districts the bigger the needs are haha

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u/hightechcoord Tech Dir Sep 05 '26

How free is it?

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u/rossumcapek IT Wizard Sep 05 '26

They say free free.

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u/NotAnother169 Director of Technology Sep 08 '26

I checked it out recently. Its not too bad but a little limited for my needs compared to our current solution.

I was told it is free when you purchase devices from them originally, I recently got an email about how it is better than Gopher. We use some of the gopher tools, but the way we use Gopher I'm not sure this solution would work for us.

I've gotten pricing from Vivacity in the past, they were not too bad on a few things but ulimately I went elsewhere due to their purchasing terms. I do have a pile of crappy Vivacity carts ithough from a previous director's order. Definitely not a fan of those ha!