Virginia Farm Bureau

Virginia Farm Bureau Reaps Rewards with CA Nimsoft Service Desk

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Challenge

Implement an easy-to-deploy and use solution for automating ticketing and service desk processes.

Solution

CA Nimsoft Service Desk provides a user-friendly interface, configuration flexibility, and increased visibility to simplify and streamline service desk activities and enable faster incident resolution.

Results

  • Increased ticket tracking, troubleshooting and resolution effectiveness.
  • Improved productivity by eliminating manual processes associated with creating and resolving trouble tickets.
  • Reduced infrastructure and management overhead with remotely managed SaaS solution.
  • Improved audit accuracy and significantly reduced audit costs.

Olive Solutions

Olive Solutions Tackles Challenging Requirements for Security and Availability with CA Nimsoft Monitor and Service Desk

Indian managed service provider helps customers increase uptime, minimize risk, and cut costs

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Challenge

Olive Solutions needed a comprehensive monitoring solution for both virtual and cloud-based environments to track, manage and optimize SLAs for an increasing number of clients with stringent requirements for data security.

Solution

CA Nimsoft Monitor and CA Nimsoft Service Desk deployed as a unifi ed solution across client infrastructures to increase uptime, simplify compliance activities, and consistently meet SLAs.

Results

  • Increased uptime with proactive monitoring and efficient ticket handling.
  • Improved visibility into client IT infrastructures to enable accurate troubleshooting and rapid problem resolution.
  • Optimized resources through centralized management of monitoring and service desk activities.
  • Customized reporting for multiple, concurrent users, without jeopardizing data security.

Fortior Global

CA Nimsoft Helps Fortior Global Launch Tiered Support Services

By providing direct, customized support contracts to customers, Fortior Global creates a robust new revenue stream

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Challenge

  • Create new support services offerings to match customer specific needs.
  • Deliver support services over the cloud to geographically dispersed clients.
  • Provide customized portals with self-service capabilities and insight into support requests.
  • Connect support services to searchable knowledge base.

Solution

Fortior Global implemented CA Nimsoft Service Desk to facilitate the definition of three service levels using customizable customer-facing portals that provide self-service, reporting, and tracking features.

Results

  • Improved the consistency, efficiency and quality of service and reduced costs through self-service and automation.
  • Added nearly 50 new direct support contracts to increase revenue stream without the need to involve third-party contacts—an increase of 150%.
  • Grew number of Premium services customers by 25% per month.

Servecentric

CA Nimsoft Helps Leading Managed Services Operator Deliver Confidence in the Cloud

Solution Helps Optimize Visibility, Administrative Efficiency and Service Levels

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Challenge

Servecentric administrators needed comprehensive monitoring of its virtualized and cloud environments, so they could track, manage and optimize service levels.

Solution

CA Nimsoft Monitor deployed to identify, troubleshoot and address issues in clients’ IT infrastructures. The solution enables them to work with, and respond to, individual clients with tailored, responsive service—without having to reinvent the wheel every time.

Results

  • Streamlined monitoring administration saves time and money
  • Improved service levels and SLA compliance
  • Timely, intuitive reporting helped build customer trust
  • Optimised the use of all resources

Securex

Securex Selects CA Nimsoft to Streamline IT Monitoring

Leading European HR Service Provider Relies on CA Nimsoft Monitor to Improve Performance and Availability of Business-critical Applications

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Challenge

With the introduction of their new self-service HR application, Securex needed to improve monitoring across a range of managed HR services, provide secure application delivery and 24/7 availability and reduce overall monitoring complexity to save time and money

Solution

After the evaluation, the team selected CA Nimsoft Monitor recognizing that this single, integrated end-to-end solution would significantly simplify their monitoring efforts.”

Results

  • Delivered new online HR application
  • Optimised IT performance and availability for SLA achievement
  • Extended deployment across entire IT infrastructure and subsidiary operations

AXSOS

AXSOS Delivers New Cloud Offerings

CA Nimsoft Helps German Service Provider Boost Service Levels

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Challenge

AXSOS required deeper, end-to-end-monitoring of a mix of environments, including virtualised, cloud and mobile device management systems and services.

Solution

The company opted to deploy CA Nimsoft Monitor, SaaS-based service management solution and CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor (WatchMouse) to track end user experience on customer help desks and websites.

Results

  • Enhanced IT monitoring and additional revenue-generating services
  • Improved IT performance and availability
  • Faster response to customer needs ∞Increased customer satisfaction

MTI

MTI Delivers New Offerings, Improved Service Levels with CA Nimsoft

CA Nimsoft Monitor Powers Profitable Remote Management and Cloud Services

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Challenge

MTI needed a way to profitably and reliably deliver tiered remote IT monitoring services, support hundreds of users and complex, heterogeneous customer environments and maintain customer trust through effective SLA delivery.

Solution

CA Nimsoft Monitor deployed to track and troubleshoot hundreds of clients’ IT infrastructures and manage a diverse mix of applications and technologies—including storage, back up, networks, operating systems, servers, virtualized resources and cloud infrastructures.

Results

  • MTI has built new revenue streams using CA Nimsoft Monitor
  • MTI reduced time to market for new MTI Care and MTI Cloud service offerings, while avoiding in-house development costs
  • Continuous remote monitoring and 24/7 availability boost SLA compliance and customer trust and confidence

Wikimedia

Wikimedia Opens a Window into High-Profile Projects with CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor (WatchMouse) for Website Monitoring

The Foundation’s User Community Benefits from Improved Uptime and Transparency

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Challenge

Wikimedia Foundation need to provide 24/7 availability across globally accessible user-built projects, while providing performance and availability metrics to its user community.

Solution

Wikimedia deployed CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor (WatchMouse) to gather availability data from multiple services across a network of over 60 stations in more than 30 countries, and display the information to the public on a free status page.

Results

  • Provides visibility needed to enhance the end user experience for site visitors and contributors.
  • Improves site transparency to build credibility and foster good will within the user community.
  • Enables proactive problem mitigation, reducing downtime and enabling cost and time efficiencies.
  • Improves service levels for users, editors and developers by increasing access to information.

Retail Case Study

Improving Operational Efficiencies in IT to Increase Service Levels

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Challenge

Reducing resource costs associated with service desk application administration and reporting, while improving service levels for support applications.

Solution

Implementing a full-featured, SaaS-based service management solution that could be quickly deployed.

Benefits

  • Leveraged a 100% web-based solution that does not require additional maintenance fees or upgrade effort, while ensuring they are always on the current version.
  • Improved customer service led to improved user perception of IT.
  • Reduced effort required for application administration and maintenance enabled staff to devote more focus to customer service.
  • Extended CA Nimsoft Service Desk application to multiple departments, so all team members are using a unified task management system.

Manufacturer Case Study

Nationwide Manufacturer and Dealer Eliminates Forced Upgrades While Leveraging Full-featured IT Service Management (ITSM)

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Challenge

Extending service management capabilities to dealer network, while reducing total cost of ownership.

Solution

Quickly implement a full-featured, SaaS-based service management solution.

Benefits

  • Lowered costs, including reduced total cost of ownership.
  • Reduced in-house programming requirements, freeing up internal resources for other, more strategic projects.
  • Extended service management capabilities to nationwide dealer network.
  • Eliminated cost and disruption of ongoing upgrades to service management application.

Financial Case Study

Improving Self-service and Knowledge Management Capabilities while Eliminating Process Consulting Needs

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Challenge

Eliminating costly, time intensive upgrades, while easily extending self-service capabilities and adopting ITIL best practices.

Solution

Replace legacy on-premise application with 100% web-based solution that is delivered out-of-the box with ITIL workflows and a self-service portal.

Benefits

  • Leveraged a 100% web-based solution that does not require additional maintenance fees or upgrade efforts, while ensuring they are always on the current version.
  • Improved management of external vendors and service providers, including SLA tracking and reporting.
  • Implemented a fully integrated self-service portal that is easy for their internal and external customers to use.
  • Populated an integrated knowledge database that enables analysts and end users to submit queries and rapidly solve issues.
  • Deployed a complete service catalog for managing and making service requests.
  • Realized significant savings and lower total cost of ownership.

 

Apps Associates

Apps Associates Creates Flexible Workflows for Multiple Clients with MSP-Ready CA Nimsoft Service Desk

ITIL-based Service Desk Solution Delivers Flexibility, Without Sacrificing Functionality

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Challenge

Due to significant growth, Apps Associates needed a service desk solution that provided a formal ITIL best practices framework, as well as capabilities for managing and tracking SLAs and customizing workflows for multiple clients.

Solution

By deploying CA Nimsoft Service Desk, Apps Associates is able to support delivery of managed services to clients globally with unique, customized workflows and ITIL best practices.

Results

  • Enables creation of unique approval workflows without reprogramming.
  • Employs ITIL best practices and increases visibility into the service cycle.
  • Promotes consistent interaction with multiple customers through a single interface.
  • Reduces overall infrastructure costs through automation and SaaS-based delivery model.
  • Speeds response to customer requests via email and web-based communications.
  • Allows proactive SLA management to satisfy customer expectations.

IT Authorities

CA Nimsoft Helps IT Authorities Add Value and Sophistication to Offering

Advanced, Unified Monitoring Capabilities Distinguish Growing MSP with a Strong Value Proposition

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Challenge

To demonstrate more value to existing and potential customers, IT Authorities needed to enhance the sophistication of its IT monitoring capabilities. Clients were demanding greater insight into critical systems and applications.

Solution

IT Authorities selected CA Nimsoft Monitor as its core monitoring platform. CA Nimsoft Monitor provides 24/7, unified network and server monitoring for critical applications and systems across client infrastructures, and it offers customizable, portal based views of services that deliver greater insight into the health and performance of client infrastructures.

Results

  • Added significant value with unified reporter service reports on the health and performance of critical systems and applications.
  • Helped IT Authorities meet the needs of its clients' internal IT departments, which often lack the time and resources for lengthy deployments.
  • Enabled greater insight into client infrastructures via detailed dashboards and customized client facing portals.
  • Enabled IT Authorities to secure larger accounts by providing a higher level of sophistication in monitoring capabilities.

 

ISC IT Solutions

ISC Optimizes Managed Services and Operations with CA Nimsoft

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ISC is a highly accredited IT solution provider that offers a range of managed IT support services on a 24 x 7 basis. These include user support, hosting in a custom-built data center, and IT monitoring and management from a dedicated network operations center (NOC).

The company’s management team realized that, in their effort to evolve and grow, they needed a monitoring solution that would offer greater efficiency and flexibility, so they could continue to expand and improve the services they provided. To accomplish these objectives, the company’s IT leadership ultimately chose CA Nimsoft Monitor.

Since deploying CA Nimsoft Monitor, ISC has realized a range of benefits. By having a single product to manage all core resources and services, ISC’s IT staff can eliminate the burden of supporting several disparate point solutions. Plus, with a centralized view of clients’ deployments, they can streamline reporting and gain better insights for resource forecasting and planning.

“After our first look at Nimsoft’s solutions, we were impressed. CA Nimsoft Monitor’s comprehensive capabilities meant that we could use one product instead of four. Plus it was very easy to set up and manage.”
—Jason Bass, Technical Director, ISC

Momentum

Momentum Expands Service Offering with CA Nimsoft Network Monitoring System

Service Provider Gains Traction Among Existing and New Clients with Tiered Monitoring Services

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Momentum Advanced Solutions (“Momentum”) wanted to grow their business by offering an end-to-end monitoring and tiered monitoring service that could be customized for multiple clients. After evaluating several solutions, Momentum purchased CA Nimsoft Monitor to monitor the systems and applications within its clients’ IT infrastructures.

By providing managed network monitoring software services using CA Nimsoft Monitor, Momentum can help customers avoid the economic impact of downtime, while creating incremental revenue streams based on offering tiered monitoring services.

“Nimsoft was the best solution available for monitoring applications. With Nimsoft Monitor, each customer has its own monitoring system and portal, but we manage it as a single system. This capability simplifies management and administration on our end, and reduces our overhead significantly.”
—Terry Whiffing, Vice President of Managed Service Operations, Momentum

L7 Solutions

L7 Enhances Value Proposition of Managed Services Offering with NMS

Consulting, Integration, and Managed Service Provider Differentiates its Value Proposition with Customized Monitoring and Reporting

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Challenge

To provide highly scalable server monitoring and reporting capabilities for customers' critical systems, network devices and infrastructure as part of its managed service offering.

Solution

L7 implemented CA Nimsoft Monitor across 2,000 devices within a large, enterprise customer account to meet the client's need for performance monitoring, capacity planning, and customized reporting. L7 has also deployed CA Nimsoft Monitor internally and will be rolling out the same capabilities to other key clients.

Results

  • Allows L7 to differentiate its offerings while guaranteeing performance levels and increasing customer satisfaction.
  • Provides insight into critical systems and applications.
  • Delivers information on key metrics via customized reporting and real-time dashboards.
  • Enables L7 to respond to the needs of both high-level and technical audiences.
  • Helps reduce operational costs associated with network and server monitoring, managing, and supporting client infrastructures.

"Nimsoft Monitor is much simpler to use and more pragmatic than other available solutions, and delivers the automation necessary to meet the needs of larger clients with geographically dispersed networks."
—Glenn McAtee, General Manager, Managed Services, L7

Coop Norge Handel

Coop Norge Handel Uses CA Nimsoft to Improve User Experience Across The Enterprise

Giant Norwegian Retailer Cost-Effectively Unifies Service Monitoring while Improving and Expanding Services

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Two years ago, due to anticipated rising demand, the IT organization took a long, hard look at its services delivery operations. During the investigation, Coop Norge Handel IT found that while network and server monitoring was adequate, application and services monitoring was woefully deficient.

Coop Norge Handel implemented CA Nimsoft Monitor throughout its organization to measure the delivery of critical business services end to end, from the core to the user. CA Nimsoft scored the highest among monitoring vendor offerings, with its winning combination of ease of use, comprehensive functionality, integration compatibility, and compelling price model.

“With Nimsoft, we are able to deliver more complex, higher quality services to a growing population with the same level of resources.”
—Per Vestby, Head of IT Department, Coop Norge Handel

Troubadour

Troubadour Creates a ClientView Like No Other with CA Nimsoft IT Monitoring Solution

CA Nimsoft Monitor Lightens the Load for Clients, Provides Peace of Mind, and Builds Confidence in Troubadour’s Cloud Services

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Challenge

Troubadour needed a highly scalable IT monitoring solution for its new virtual data center (VDC) that could support multiple clients and provide rich functionality and customization. Ideally, the same solution could be unbundled and used for on-premise monitoring, as well as for VDC customers.

Solution

Troubadour deployed CA Nimsoft Monitor and created a service offering called ClientView.

Results

  • Differentiates Troubadour in the service provider marketplace with highly scalable monitoring and alerting capabilities provided to clients as an affordable monthly service.
  • Helps Troubadour provide optimal performance and availability of its cloud-based and on-premise services.
  • Provides incremental revenue streams based on new service offering.
  • Enables a flexible pricing model for monitoring.
  • Improves customer satisfaction with customized dashboards.

 

Thomas Duryea Consulting

Thomas Duryea Adds Value to Cloud Service Offerings with CA Nimsoft IT Monitoring Solution

Managed Service Provider Leverages Unified Monitoring to Help Ensure High Availability of Managed Services and Critical Systems

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Challenge

In the process of migrating a traditional product and services model to a cloud plus services model, Thomas Duryea Consulting wanted to differentiate itself in the market by providing productized offerings such as managed support and outsourcing. The company needed a remote monitoring solution to enable these offerings.

Solution

Thomas Duryea Consulting deployed CA Nimsoft Monitor to monitor and manage its scalable IT managed services portfolio as an integrated component of its Minder Support Services Suite. With CA Nimsoft Monitor, Thomas Duryea can remotely monitor dozens of unique customer IT environments through a single interface.

Results

  • Improves scalability and support for real-time management of high-volume, high-transaction IT infrastructures.
  • Enables Thomas Duryea to identify and address potential problems proactively.
  • Supports SLA compliance, while reducing the time and effort required to monitor those environments.
  • Helps Thomas Duryea to grow efficiently while keeping pace with customer demand for 24x7 network surveillance.

 

Airlines Reporting Corporation

Airlines Reporting Corporation Deploys CA Nimsoft Server Monitoring Solution

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Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) needed a unified tool to monitor and ensure performance of its critical ticketing and settlement systems, serving more than 18,000 accredited points of sale. The ability to scale and customize the solution was important, and the solution needed to accommodate a mixed Windows and UNIX environment.

ARC selected CA Nimsoft Monitor to monitor all of its core production systems, a few development systems, and the Web servers. The environment is mixed, consisting of Windows and UNIX machines and an IBM mainframe. Features including alerts, probes, process management, server utilization and log files have been useful in maintaining high levels of performance and reliability. Since implementing CA Nimsoft Monitor, ARC has been able to reduce costs and eliminate the need for on-site consulting.

“We have great visibility with Nimsoft Monitor and can view system performance metrics that help us determine the cause of issues or potential problems quickly."
—Michael Tarajos, CAS Application Engineer for ARC’s Tampa Production Support Team

Alvaka

Alvaka Networks Shaves Cost and Risk Off Monitoring Services with CA Nimsoft Server Monitoring Solution

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Alvaka had been using BMC PATROL solutions to monitor client infrastructures, but as the business expanded, the team found these solutions to be slow to evolve and incapable of handling the 3+ gigabytes of IT monitoring data collected daily. The team was also experiencing outages that threatened Alvaka’s credibility.

The Alvaka team evaluated several products and chose CA Nimsoft Monitor. By switching to CA Nimsoft Monitor from previous monitoring solutions, Alvaka has realized tremendous cost savings in administration and management.

"We looked long and hard at the best tools in the marketplace, and we chose Nimsoft."
—Oli Thordarson, CEO, Alvaka Networks

Atrion

Atrion Enhances Managed Services, Profit Margins with CA Nimsoft

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Comprehensive Capabilities Enable Veteran Managed Service Provider to Replace Multiple Point Solutions, Streamline Operations.

Atrion’s management team found that different aspects of their server monitoring platform weren’t as scalable as required, and began to hinder their ability to enhance services and grow the business. Monitoring capabilities are a critical component in Atrion’s ability to serve its clients effectively.

Consequently, when it came time to choose a new monitoring solution, the company’s managed services team undertook a rigorous, two-year evaluation of the alternatives. When the evaluation came to an end, one vendor surpassed the rest: CA Nimsoft. The evaluation made clear that the CA Nimsoft products and its people were best equipped to support Atrion’s clients and business objectives.

"Nimsoft allows us to do more without spending more. Now we’ll be able to monitor from an application, rather than a device, standpoint, which opens up a host of new possibilities in terms of service offerings. Plus, not only can we expand our service catalog, we can offer higher value, higher margin services—all with one tool set."
—Tim Hebert, CEO, Atrion