Case Study: Wageningen University and Research Centre achieves optimized, secure, and highly visible IT for 15K+ clients with BMC Software's Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Acclaimed European research institute Wageningen UR optimizes its IT infrastructure for 15K+ client computers

Wageningen University & Research (WUR), a leading European education and sustainability research institute supporting 15K+ client computers, faced a sprawling, complex IT landscape—about 750 servers, 700 TB of data, 26,000 email inboxes and thousands of mobile devices—that needed clearer visibility to enable optimization, standardization and stronger security.

WUR deployed BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping to create up-to-date service maps (covering 80 commercial and in‑house services), which sped problem identification, prioritized support by business impact, and enabled a seamless datacenter move of 300 servers in two days. The result: faster remediation of non‑approved configurations, improved standardization, and a more secure, stable IT environment.

Wageningen University and Research Centre

Wilfred Hoefakker

IT Service Manager for Education, WUR