TechValidate Research on Quest Microsoft Platform Management

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a May 2014 survey of Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Solved the following challenges with Notes Migrator for SharePoint:
  • Improved IT efficiency

Use Case

• Targeted the following platforms for their migrations:
  • SharePoint 2013
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • SQL Server
• Migrated the following types of Notes applications:
  • Discussion applications
  • Document library applications
  • Team room applications
  • QuickR applications
  • Critical business applications
  • Custom built internal applications
  • Workflow enabled applications
• Used Notes Migrator for SharePoint to migrate 5001-10,000 databases.
• Performed the Notes Migration with the following:
  • An internal team

Results

• Was very satisfied with the quality and completeness of the data migration with Notes Migrator for SharePoint.
• Would recommend Quest for the following reasons:
  • Value of post migration management tools

Introduction

This case study of a small business insurance company is based on a June 2013 survey of Change Auditor customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased Change Auditor for the following reasons:
  • Meeting external compliance regulations
  • Operational risk management
  • User and administrator activity monitoring
  • Tracking changes across platforms
  • Manual data collection efforts for audits that were complex and time consuming
• Solved the following problems with Change Auditor:
  • Extended coverage and simplify compliance audits
  • Prevented changes that might negatively affect operations
  • Informed and updated management of security issues with built-in and easy to read reports

Use Case

• Owns the following modules of Change Auditor:
  • Active Directory
  • Exchange
  • SharePoint
  • SQL Server
  • Windows File Server
  • VMware
• Has the following compliance regulations:
  • PCI-DSS
  • SOX

Results

• Chose Change Auditor over the following vendors:
  • Netwrix
  • Varonis
• Finds the following the most helpful features of Change Auditor:
  • Real-time alerts on security policy violations
  • Object protection and preventing damaging changes
  • Its ability to change event normalization into simple, human readable terms
  • Application, OS and NAS coverage
  • Event logging and integration with other tools
  • Scheduled reporting
  • Web interface and dashboards
• Paid back their investment in Change Auditor in 6-9 months.
• Workload was reduced and productivity increased by < 24% with Change Auditor.