TechValidate Research on SolarWinds System Management


Case Study: S&P 500 Industrial Manufacturing Company Replaces IBM Tivoli with SolarWinds

“We had a user group complaining about starting an application and the slow performance. Using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, I found a highly executed database query that averaged 113,000 ms, which I was able to tune down to 47 ms greatly improving database and application performance.”

“I like having a central focus for where to go to monitor my databases and applications, and SolarWinds delivers just that.”

Challenges

  • IT administration and management challenges that prompted you to purchase SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor:
    • Lack of visibility into application health and availability
    • Need for greater insight into performance metrics for troubleshooting
    • Lack of centralized monitoring across multiple sites in the network
  • Used IBM Tivoli before replacing it with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

Use Case

  • Purchased Server & Application Monitor to have a single, unified solution to monitor all environments.
  • Applications primarily monitored using Server & Application Monitor:
    • Microsoft Exchange Server
    • Windows
    • IIS
    • SQL Server
    • Oracle
    • AIX

Results

  • Able to identify and troubleshoot application issues 40 – 60% faster after deploying Server & Application Monitor.




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