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IT Management for Manufacturing

Enterprise-grade network, server and application monitoring at a fraction of the cost
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You are responsible for the network at a manufacturing firm, tasked with ensuring a secure, functional IT infrastructure to enable your company to produce efficiently and effectively.

  • Are you constantly asked to do more with less?
  • Are you asked to help your business gain operational efficiency and lower production costs?

    • "As our business develops, the importance of network connectivity becomes more critical. WhatsUp Gold certainly helps in the time taken to resolve issues."
    - Neil Mitchell, Network Manager, Kwik-Fit, UK

  • Are you looking for cost-effective ways to manage your infrastructure?

Manufacturing firms today seek to improve operational efficiency and consolidate IT resources whenever possible, to deliver the most cost-effective infrastructure possible.

  • Planning stages prior to moving to the cloud – requires assessment of current IT infrastructure including inventory and utilization
  • Cloud Management – once resources are consolidated and you move to the private could, you must monitor your applications and infrastructure performance to quality service without degradation
  • Integration of multiple locations – manufacturing firms are seeking to use ERP and networks to facilitate communication and savings

WhatsUp Gold delivers amazing, out-of-the-box functionality, and a robust feature set, all at a fraction of the cost. Once you start to look at the cost value ratio, you'll quickly find that there's literally no comparison!


"As we centralize IT more and more, we're looking for WhatsUp Gold to provide more services and help advise the resources in the mill to put in place the right actions."
- Dany Briard, IT Implementation & Operations Coordinator, Cascades Tissue Group, USA/Canada

Best Value IT Management for Manufacturing

WhatsUp Gold's IT Management solution offers the best value for manufacturing companies:

Proven for Manufacturing – Worldwide manufacturing companies of all sizes – from single-location to multinational, multi-site – utilize WhatsUp Gold for complete IT management.

Quick Implementation, Easy Configuration and Low Operating Cost – Despite WhatsUp Gold's robust feature set, it is very easy to install and configure. A typical install requires less than 1 hour, and a full implementation can be complete in a matter of hours. Plus, its intuitive interface minimizes the amount of training required for proficiency.

Simple Licensing Model – simple and straight-forward pricing – just count the number of devices you need to monitor – plus there are no hidden costs or surprises at the end.

Air-tight security– WhatsUp Gold uses the highest level of security and protection on the market — FIPS 140-2 encryption — for all data storage, network connectivity and LDAP connections.

Regulatory Compliance – Use WhatsUp Event Log Management to eliminate exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities.

Critical Application Availability– Managing your business and supply chain increasingly depends on the performance and availability of important applications .

 

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WhatsUp Gold delivers robust, secure, and affordable products that make IT Management simple. With nearly two decades of providing solutions to educational customers around the globe and a broad network of regional reseller relationships — WhatsUp Gold is an ideal partner for your IT Management initiatives.

Comprehensive Features

Discover, map and manage your entire IT infrastructure – network devices, servers, applications, virtual resources, VoIP, configuration settings and network traffic – from a single interface. Built on an integrated, extensible and scalable architecture - one installation, one console, one Alert Center & one integrated discovery – you select the custom solution that is right for you:

Manage network devices, servers, virtual resources and applications from the same console

Discover (layer 2/3), map, document and inventory your entire infrastructure including wired and wireless, physical and virtual hardware, systems and software assets

Scale from 25 devices to 20,000 devices with additional pollers

WhatsUp Gold

Automate configuration & change management

 WhatsConfigured

Understand network traffic and bandwidth usage — who and how — and secure your network by uncovering traffic abnormalities that may indicate viruses, malware and other rogue activity

WhatsUp Flow Monitor

Discover, map, monitor and manage your VM infrastructure for higher utilization and prevent virtual sprawl

 WhatsVirtual

Assure network quality for IP Telephony

WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor

Work Across Networks, Factories, Borders – WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides you with scalable and secure management and monitoring of any number of remote sites from a centralized site, with centralized reports, rotating views and drill-down capabilities to remote sites and problematic devices.

See how WhatsUp Gold can help your organization

Technologies

Why

Challenges

Our Products to Help You

Cloud and virtualization

Consolidate resources

Increase efficiency

- Planning Phases

- Potential performance degradation

- Tracking physical to virtual associations

- Virtual sprawl prevention

- Management Complexity

- WhatsUp Gold

- WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual

Streaming media

Video Conferencing

Tools for customers

Reduce travel costs

- Ensure QoS for mission critical applications

- Manage bandwidth constraints: understand who, what & how

- Rapidly Identify bottlenecks, usage violations

- Ensure network performance

- WhatsUp Gold

- WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor

Compliance Regulations

Secure and Protect data

- Internal and external threats

- Automated log data collection

- Multi-year log data storage

- Protection against log file tampering

- Proving Compliance

- Log File Forensics

WhatsUp Log Management Suite

 

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Manufacturing firms must protect and secure proprietary materials and production process data, financial information and employee records. You need to know who is accessing which systems and data, and what users are doing at all times. Records of all events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices.

US Public company or accounting firm or are becoming part of one through an acquisition or merger – your management needs to certify the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting

 SOX (Sarbanes Oxley)

Contracting organization that provides services to the Government have to document risk assessment planning and security event monitoring and triage processes.

 FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act)

Any employer in USA is mandated to protect employee privacy information. Organizations are required to "audit and monitor system and user activity across the entire network, identify and investigate security breaches and suspicious behavior, and maintain an audit trail of user and network activity," and specifies that companies must "retain and protect log data as evidence [for] up to 6 years."

 HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

If you are an international firm looking to do business with a US firm, SOX and HIPAA will have compliance ramifications for you. Make sure you are protected!

WhatsUp Log Management Suite

Reduce exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities with WhatsUp Event Log Management Suite, in a cost-effective way.

At a glance

Overview

Benefits

How

Automatically collect, store, archive and backup all log files

Save time; get rid of time-consuming manual processes; automatically comply with multi-year data storage regulatory requirements

Use Event Archiver

Monitor Windows event & Syslog data in real-time to receive alerts and notifications at the first sign of trouble

Respond faster to network outages or security threats; prevent a security threat from becoming a breach

Use Event Alarm

Filter, Analyze and Report on Log Data to verify the success of internal security policies, and demonstrate regulatory compliance; Generate custom reports for IT personnel, security and compliance officers, and even law enforcement agencies

Get answers, when you need them; reduce risks and liabilities

Use Event Analyst

Spot check and review log files much faster to quickly respond to an emergency incident

Easily spot check and routinely review log files while maintaining log file store integrity

Use Event Rover

 

 

 

 

Customer Success Stories: Case Studies

GENCO

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions, USA/Canada

"WhatsUp Gold has everything GENCO needs to roll out our first corporate standard for scalable network management. It has the features we require today and for the future, priced affordably so that we aren't paying for excess software, support or IT staffing. WhatsUp Gold was easy to use from the start. And it works." - KC Lau, Senior VP Systems, GENCO

Currently GENCO is in the first phase of rolling out WhatsUp Gold throughout the corporation. The rollout began with corporate headquarters and one other site. Two additional sites are scheduled to be added, and in less than a year Lau expects WhatsUp Gold to be fully operational at GENCO's 80+ sites.

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Kwik-Fit

Kwik Fit, UK

"WhatsUp Gold helps enormously with troubleshooting, which gives us the capability to respond to issues immediately." Neil Mitchell, Network Manager, Kwik-Fit, UK

With a large number of remote branches, WhatsUp Gold enables the IT department to quickly determine whether a device is down. With over 700 remote sites (including branches, offices, etc.), Kwik-Fit required a means to monitor the network status of these sites, so they evaluated a number of different products before opting for WhatsUp Gold.

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Cascades

Cascades, USA/Canada

"We have already achieved our ROI with WhatsUp Gold in less than six months" Dany Briard, IT Implementation & Operations Coordinator,
Cascades Tissue Group, USA/Canada

Cascades chose WhatsUp Gold to create customized views of paper mills and warehouses and to monitor unique devices, including bar code readers.

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Toyotetsu

Toyotetsu North America

"When comparing SolarWinds Orion and WhatsUp Gold, the choice to go with WhatsUp Gold was an extremely easy one to make." Doug Carter, Assistant Manager of IT, Toyotetsu North America

Toyotetsu North America decided to implement WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition to monitor their network, spanning across four facilities, from one central location. Utilizing the versatile alerting and notification capabilities, the team of two network managers was able to effectively manage their network and ensure that it was running around the clock.

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