Case JTL: Easily Provide Better Employee IT Experience with Applixure
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JTL Easily Able to Provide Better Employee IT Experience with Applixure
Introduction
JTL is a leading work-based learning provider in the UK. They have a small IT department that manages over 1000 computers used by employees and students at their training centers. JTL struggled to keep the computers running smoothly. They were unable to forecast issues and found themselves stuck in reactive mode.
Fortunately, they’ve been able to turn things around with Applixure. With valuable information about the state of the devices, JTL’s IT team can provide a better end-user experience – while saving both time and money.
Video Interview with Lee Walker:
Small IT team frustrated and stuck in reactive mode
JTL is a UK charity providing apprenticeships, traineeships, and professional development in the electro, technical, and mechanical engineering sectors. JTL’s Head of Technology and Security, Lee Walker, has been with the company for 22 years. He leads JTLs IT team of 13. Six of these are support staff who manage the laptops of JTL’s 450 employees as well as all the laptops located in training centers. In total, approximately 1000 devices.
JTL’s IT team was struggling to keep the computers running smoothly. They did not have a way of monitoring the computers in order to spot issues before they became problems. Lee explains:
Choosing the right tool
The free trial revealed impactful, easy-to-fix issues
Easier to dig into root causes
Shifting from a reactive to a proactive way-of-working
Applixure saves both time and money
Applixure has allowed JTL to resolve issues that were not being resolved previously. Before using Applixure, if the IT department could not figure out what was wrong with a device, they would replace the machine and wipe and reinstall it, creating lots of extra work for the department. Now, they have the needed information to fix problems before they affect the user experience.
With Applixure, JTL can resolve problems remotely, quickly, and with ease, instead of having to send laptops from training centers to the IT department and back. As Lee summarizes:
Using Workflow
Pros and cons
The use of Applixure has, of course, increased the amount of work his team has in the short-term since they can now see all of the things that need fixing. However, long-term, doing this proactive fixing will decrease the amount of work they will have since the issues won’t evolve into real problems.
The team is looking forward to doing less firefighting. Despite the slight increase in workload in the short-term, JTL has no regrets.
Advice for others
All in all, Lee and his team have had very positive experiences with Applixure. He describes it as a simple tool that’s easy to use and is guaranteed to give you some ‘aha’ moments. Being able to proactively identify issues on computers and solve them before they lead to bigger issues has changed the way the entire IT department operates.
Lee wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Applixure to others and describes his experience as extremely positive:

Established over 30 years ago by the Electrical Contractors’ Association and Unite the Union, JTL is a charity organisation offering apprenticeships, traineeships, assessment services and professional development training across the electro-technical and mechanical engineering services sectors. We currently work with 8,000 learners and 3,800 employers across England and Wales in more than 100 locations, including dedicated JTL training facilities in Telford, Hull, Eastbourne, Worthing, Norwich, Carlisle, York, Barnsley, Nottingham, Birmingham, Oxford, Orpington, Maidstone and Ashford. The JTL Group is made up of three separate organisations which are JTL, Develop Training and CompEx.
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