TechValidate Research on SolarWinds


SolarWinds Government Case Study

Internal Revenue Service Case Study

Introduction

This case study of Internal Revenue Service is based on a September 2017 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

  • IT challenge their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • Lack of visibility into the problems leading to network performance or capacity issues

Use Case

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

  • Regular user in the following SolarWinds product area:
    • Network Management
  • Uses SolarWinds products within department / location
  • 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

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
    • Improve log tracking and management
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Performance Monitor
    • NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Cost effectiveness
    • Scalability / ability to support our growth
    • Colleague recommendation




About This Data

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

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