Case Study: Easter Seals Wisconsin achieves continuous uptime and disaster recovery readiness with Stratus Technologies' Avance software

The Business Of Caring Requires Resilient IT And Uptime Assurance

Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin, a nonprofit serving over 2,500 people monthly across seven sites and more than a dozen programs, had outgrown its dated IT after a merger and service expansion. The organization needed continuous uptime to support critical reporting, medical and insurance billing, remote staff access, and growing data volumes while staying within nonprofit budget constraints.

ITP deployed a cost‑effective high‑availability platform using Stratus Avance software on Dell servers, virtualizing multiple applications (SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, terminal/file services) and adding proactive monitoring and split‑site disaster‑recovery capabilities. The upgrade consolidated servers, simplified management, eliminated unplanned downtime, and provided the resilience and capacity to support current operations and future growth.

Easter Seals Wisconsin

Joe Ulm

President, Information Technology Professionals