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“It’s really powerful to have a live connection between systems. The itemit team are heroes!”
“It’s really powerful to have a live connection between systems. The itemit team are heroes!”
disguise are pioneers in creativity. They help build ground-breaking visual experiences on and off stage with cutting edge visual technology. They’ve created visual experiences for the likes of The Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeren, and Beyoncé and for theatre productions, including Harry Potter and Frozen.
With such a great number of technological physical assets, disguise needs to audit their assets constantly to make sure they’re accounted for, up to date, economical and in use. Because of this, disguise needs to use cutting edge systems for their cutting edge technology.
itemit are thrilled to have shared their API with disguise to help them take their operations to the next levels of automation and visibility. With itemit, disguise can reach a much greater level of transparency by using itemit to the fullest of its abilities and then taking that critical asset data and using it in other operational systems.
itemit’s Asset Tracking Software
disguise started using itemit to track their IT and media assets, including servers, lighting and routers. They use the system to track where these assets are in the world, whether they’re on site, with a customer or remote.
They’re also making use of itemit’s booking system to keep an eye on who has their assets. This gives disguise the visibility to run audits on where their assets are, who’s in control of them, and when they were last seen.
disguise then saw the opportunity to take this data further and push it out to other systems, reconciling their asset tracking with other critical asset operations. So, they reached out to the team at itemit to gain access to their API.
The Goal
itemit is built to be streamlined and that means every time you scan an asset’s tag, three critical bits of information are recorded automatically: last seen location, last seen time and the user who scanned the tag. This information is critical for audits as it shows that an asset is:
- In use
- Accounted for
- Seen within a certain timeframe
- Responsibly tracked
Using other itemit features, you can also track who is responsible for an asset, which gives you all the information you need to keep your auditors happy.
The goal disguise had was to integrate itemit’s API with an existing system they already used. This way, all of the auditing information collected by itemit can be pushed out to the wider system and used, saving everyone time and keeping asset records clean and central with no risk of discrepancy.
