Case Business Finland: Building Solid IT Foundations and Making Reporting Easy

"For us, this is a basic tool that tells us everything about the condition of our workstations at a glance. With Applixure, we are able to plan future projects, such as software updates, as well as dive deep down to the level of a single workstation component and see whether it requires maintenance. We can, for example, anticipate in advance if a computer’s hard drive is about to become too full for software updates," says Jarmo Jonninen, IT Manager at Business Finland.

"Making reporting easier has also been important to us. Now we can present business management all needed information about the End User IT and its health from Applixure’s interface on the fly, if necessary. You could say that Applixure has largely automated our reporting for management," says Jonninen."We also realized that Applixure was of great help to us when we were changing IT service providers. We were able to provide a very detailed report of our current workstations, and based on this information, it was easy for the new service provider to design a service package based on our proven needs. Therefore, Applixure is also an excellent tool for us to improve the efficiency of collaboration with the service provider and workstation maintenance," Jonninen continues.

"The number of application versions within our organization has a great impact on the amount of maintenance required. Before adopting Applixure, we had as many as eight different versions of the same software installed. This was a bad thing for information security alone. With the information provided by Applixure, we have made it a common practice that there may be no more than two versions of an application in use, so our application environment is now much more uniform in terms of administration and information security," says Jonninen.

"A commendable number of new features have been added to Applixure over the years. One of the new features we’re particularly fond of is comparison with others. We can see in Applixure how the health of our IT environment compares to that of other organizations. Although this is just “nice to know” kind of information, it does make a difference by providing us some healthy competitive spirit to inspire our development as well," Jonninen sums up.