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SolarWinds Government Case Study

Skokie Park District Illinois Case Study

Introduction

This case study of Skokie Park District is based on a March 2019 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds Government:

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues
    • Not having the tools to troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • The difficulty of providing end-user and systems support from a central location

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SolarWinds Government that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product areas:
    • Network management
    • Remote support and technical support
  • Uses SolarWinds products throughout the company
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • Network performance monitoring
    • Troubleshooting network problems or failures
    • Centralized support for end users and systems

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Correlate network, server, and application issues to resolve performance problems
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Provide better service levels to the organization
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • User Device Tracker
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Prior use of other SolarWinds products
    • Best quality price report




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of SolarWinds by TechValidate.

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