TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Government Case Study

Broward County Florida Case Study

Introduction

This case study of Broward County Commission is based on a September 2020 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Really like the Network Performance Monitor map and the way it changes colors is great. Also, instant e-mails when a network device goes down.”

Challenges

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

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues
    • Lack of visibility into system/server health

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product area:
    • Network management
  • Uses SolarWinds products across multiple departments / locations, but not whole organization
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • To monitor network performance
    • To troubleshoot network problems or outages
    • To support end-users and systems from a central location
  • They deploy SolarWinds to monitor 501-1,000 objects.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • Improve resolution rates for networking performance and capacity issues
    • Improve system and application monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • Network Topology Mapper
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Ease of use
    • Cost effectiveness
    • Multi-vendor support
    • Best value
    • Scalability / Able to support our growth




About This Data

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

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