An efficient IT infrastructure is of crucial importance to the effectiveness of health care systems. In times of tight budgets, business processes have to be reorganized and optimized.
The Project
The introduction of theGuard! ApplicationManager allowed SCK GmbH to reorganize the system landscape at its data center in Stendal and to monitor its servers from a central and consistent user interface. Centrally defined alerting and reporting criteria support the data centers as well as the other locations. The active alerting capabilities of theGuard! ApplicationManager also contributed to a significant increase in process security throughout the company.
Information on the availability and utilization of critical resources is continuously logged, allowing for the creation of reports with "one click of the button". This also provides SCK with greater reliability in planning future investments. During the project, a server running theGuard! ApplicationManager 2.4 and Reporting Services was installed in the data center in Stendal. This implementation enables users to access the system remotely using a Web browser or the Citrix Metaframe technology. The creation of availability statistics which is carried out by the individual departments was greatly simplified for the internal cost allocation. This allows SCK GmbH to now provide customers who run their own servers with active monitoring services via theGuard! ApplicationManager in Stendal.
About SCK GmbH JCC-IT
The SCK GmbH JCC-IT is the central IT service provider for all facilities and communities of the Order of St. John in Germany. The company's goal is to consolidate and standardize the IT structure within the Order of St. John and in all of its facilities. The company's customers include a large number of hospitals and nursing homes. SCK GmbH JCC-IT operates all SAP applications for hospitals and nursing homes including IS-H and IS-H Med at its data center.
