TechValidate Research on Quest Microsoft Platform Management

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise financial services company is based on a January 2017 survey of Quest Microsoft Platform Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company 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
  • BeyondTrust

Use Case

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

• Uses the following Quest solutions to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms:
  • Migration Manager for AD
  • Migration Manager for Exchange / ODME
  • QCS

Results

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

• Purchased Quest over competitors for the following reasons:
  • Better time/cost savings
  • Better scalability to accommodate project size and deadline
  • Excellent support
  • Better functionality or range of functionality
  • Prior success with Quest/Dell solutions
• Completes tasks more than 10x faster with Quest than their previous solution.
• Benefited in the following ways with their Quest solution:
  • Automated complex manual processes
  • Completed a zero-impact migration
  • Saved IT costs
  • Minimized risk or disruption to business operations
• Saved more than 20 hours per week using Quest solutions to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms.
• Spends their extra time on the following:
  • Looking for areas of efficiency within IT
  • Investigating new technologies
• Saved up to $75,000 since using Quest solutions to Migrate/Manage/Secure their platforms.