Case Study: Team Fishel achieves over $140,000 annual savings and 85% faster application packaging with Flexera AdminStudio

How They Saved $140,000 in Annual IT Costs and 300 Packaging Hours in 6 Months

Team Fishel, a nationwide utility construction and network installation contractor with more than 25 offices, faced a major IT challenge: keeping desktops and laptops across the organization up to date and re-imaging machines quickly for a steady stream of contractors. Using Novell ZENworks with the legacy snAppShot repackaging tool led to slow packaging, deployment failures, low‑quality installers and higher help‑desk costs, delaying users and hurting productivity.

The IT team moved to AdminStudio ZENworks Edition and then upgraded to AdminStudio Professional Edition, speeding repackaging from 40 hours to 10 and ultimately 6 hours per application (about 85% faster), cutting packaging time by roughly 300 hours in six months and saving about $140,000 annually. The upgrade also improved MSI quality and reliability, added advanced editing, conflict‑resolution and testing tools, and made deployments far more consistent and manageable.

Team Fishel

Jeff Phillips

Application Administrator, Team Fishel