Saving Time, Money Leads to Better Patient Care for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

Altiris proved too costly, complex, and unreliable, so KACE brought in to simplify and optimize

Summary

Deployment

Less than one day

Training

Less than a week

Faster and More Reliable Imaging

• Reduced image creation time by 50 percent
• Reduced end-user down time by 76 percent
• KBOX Systems Management Appliance saved the team over 1,500 hours in performing maintenance tasks

Cost Savings

• Eliminated more than $50,000 in maintenance costs the first year
• Immediate one year ROI of 125 percent
• More than $135,000 in savings after one year

Time Savings

• Saved more than $45,000 in end-user productivity time savings
• Reduced end-user down time by 76 percent in the first year
• KBOX has cut provisioning task time by 65 percent

Client Testimonials

"I can explain the KACE solution in three words: simple, elegant, affordable—everything we were looking for in a systems deployment solution."
— Guy Fuller, Technology Director, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

"The appliance solution of KBOX is brilliant in its simplicity. We are a lean organization—one engineer for 200 employees—so the ease of use and reliability of the Systems Deployment Appliance offered to us was very reassuring."
— Guy Fuller, Technology Director, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

"When we bought Altiris we thought it was a juicy baked ham, what it ended up being was a stale can of SPAM."
— Albert Grychowski, Senior Engineer, Northwestern Mutual Physicians Group

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