AdCare Challenge
Whenever a workstation suffered a problem in one of AdCare‟s facilities, one of three IT people would have to travel to the site to resolve the issue, says Carol Groeber, Vice President Management Information Services and Corporate Secretary. With such a small staff, the ability to control workstations remotely became very important, says Groeber. “When there was someone out of the office all the time, it really made it difficult. We needed the ability to assist our people more quickly and more than one person was needed to be able to help.”
Although AdCare didn‟t have any money specifically set aside for an asset management tool, it didn‟t take Groeber much to convince management of the need. “The problem got so large in the middle of the year that it was like “Find something!‟ And so it was not budgeted,” says Groeber
Solution
At that time, she received a serendipitous call from Suri Anantharama of BOSS. “He called and gave me the Web site (www.boss-solutions.com) and I just went out and looked around. He provided to me some of their current clients to look at and to talk with. It just was a good fit,” says Groeber. She did look at and reviewed many other vendors but “BOSS was far ahead regarding features offered for the price,” says Groeber. “I thought it was very reasonable. I had expected it to be a lot more.”
Benefits
“Because we are a publicly traded company, we have to meet SOX compliance,” says Groeber. And when the company did its initial SOX audit, the use of DIAGWIN Enterprise™ for reporting and to control the deployment of applications to workstations “showed that we were in compliance.”
The impact was greatest for those employees who were recording data into workstations for patient records. “When they had issues, we were able to respond to them quicker to keep them going.”
Groeber likes the level of support she gets from BOSS: “I think the support from BOSS is a big strength; whenever we have any questions, they are always there.”
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