Case Study: Purdue University achieves holistic IT monitoring and reporting with Microsoft

Leading university transforms IT management with holistic monitoring and reporting solution

Purdue University, a large higher education institution with a complex and diverse IT infrastructure, faced significant challenges in achieving unified monitoring and reporting across its environment. Its disparate IT teams used isolated tools, making collaborative problem-solving, capacity planning, and holistic performance analysis impossible. To overcome this, the university partnered with Microsoft Corporation to implement a solution using Microsoft Operations Management Suite and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

The Microsoft solution provided Purdue with a holistic, hybrid-cloud monitoring platform that delivered comprehensive, cross-platform insight into its Windows and Linux servers, applications, and network. This enabled centralized reporting, improved application performance troubleshooting, and proactive resource allocation. As a result, Purdue elevated its IT service levels by focusing on the end-user experience and gaining the ability to identify and resolve issues before they impact users, ensuring the smooth operation of vital educational services.

Purdue University

Dan Schumacher

Interim Executive Director, IT Infrastructure Services