Large Hospital Network Reduces Management Costs

Large Hospital Network Reduces Management Costs

As a non-profit network of 11 hospitals and 42 clinics, Allina Hospitals & Clinics focuses on providing quality care for its patients throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In order to reduce its IT costs and ensure its 22,000 employees are protected with the latest patches and virus definitions, Allina looked to Novell® ZENworks® to efficiently manage its complex and disparate environment.

Allina’s technicians were spending much of their time traveling to individual sites to install new applications, and inconsistent workstations also contributed to an increasing number of help desk calls. After evaluating desktop management solutions from a number of vendors to manage its mostly Microsoft Windows* environment, Allina selected Novell ZENworks Desktop Management to automate application delivery across its entire enterprise and standardize its environment so users would have the same look and feel regardless of their location.

“We are a huge Microsoft shop, but found that Novell ZENworks offered a superior set of management tools,” said Brad Myrvold, manager for Desktop Technology at Allina. “With our number of locations, devices and applications, we simply had to change the traditional method of PC desktop support. ZENworks gives us a centralized, highly managed environment.”

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