Manufacturer Cuts System Management Costs by $150,000 With Better Monitoring

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry-leading product, software, and systems for home, office, data center, and factory-floor applications. The APC IT staff supports the business by keeping key applications available and running at peak performance. To do a better job of this and to reduce costs, APC deployed Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, which provides insight into the infrastructure availability of critical applications such as the Siebel customer relationship management system and Oracle business applications. With the ability to monitor critical infrastructure components in greater detail and from a central console, APC reduced problem resolution time, streamlined infrastructure management costs by U.S.$100,000 annually, and reduced licensing software costs by $50,000 annually.