TechValidate Research on Quest Microsoft Platform Management

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise energy & utilities company is based on a March 2013 survey of Site Administrator for SharePoint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased Site Administrator for SharePoint for the following reasons:
  • Maintain SharePoint governance
  • Secure sensitive data stored in SharePoint

Use Case

• Has a 1 farm environment.
• 1-50 business users responsible for sites and site collections in their SharePoint environment.

Results

• Solved the following operational challenges by deploying Site Administrator for SharePoint:
  • Improved SharePoint governance and policy enforcement
  • Increased visibility into the full extent of your SharePoint environment
  • Reduced time spent managing permissions, content and user activities
• Installed Site Administrator for SharePoint and began to see value in < 1 hour.
• Spent only 1 hour of training to get their site and site collection owners to use Site Administrator for SharePoint.

Introduction

This case study of Instituto Costarricense De Acueductos y Alcantaril is based on a January 2017 survey of Quest Microsoft Platform Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Quest Microsoft Platform Management:

• Previously used or evaluated the following solutions before purchasing Quest to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms:
  • Microsoft native tools
  • Binary Tree

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Quest Microsoft Platform Management that the surveyed organization uses:

• Uses the following Quest solutions to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms:
  • Enterprise Reporter
  • Recovery Manager

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Quest Microsoft Platform Management:

• Purchased Quest over competitors for the following reasons:
  • Excellent support
  • Better functionality or range of functionality
• Completes tasks related to Migrating/Managing/Securing their platforms up to 10x faster with Quest than their previous solution.
• Benefited in the following ways with their Quest solution:
  • Modernized legacy IT infrastructure
  • Delegated more time for more strategic initiatives
  • Minimized risk or disruption to business operations
• Saved more than 20 hours per week using Quest solutions
• Spends their extra time on the following:
  • On the business needs
  • Focusing on more strategic initiatives (e.g. cloud, SaaS, BYOD, security, compliance, etc.)
  • Investigating new technologies
  • Working less overtime and doing what they want
• Saved up to $75,000 since using Quest solutions to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms.