Case Study: University of North Georgia achieves automated IT compliance and rapid audits with Progress WhatsUp Gold

University of North Georgia Reduces IT Compliance Complexity

The University of North Georgia (UNG), supporting 16,000 students across five campuses, faced new state auditing mandates that forced manual inventory and verification of more than 500 servers and thousands of devices. Semi‑annual audits took two to three weeks, relied on error-prone VBScript checks and daily manual review, and left the IT team without timely, time‑stamped visibility into network health.

UNG deployed WhatsUp Gold with SmartScan and 2‑minute polling to automate discovery, inventory and audits, exporting endpoint data to SharePoint and enabling real‑time, campus‑wide monitoring and rapid report generation. The result: automated compliance workflows, immediate detection and addition of new systems, faster incident response, and a system inventory process adopted as the state standard across Georgia’s institutions.

University of North Georgia

Michael Roth

Senior Systems Engineer