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Fix slow applications that impact productivity

 

Teach First’s mission is to address educational disadvantage by transforming exceptional graduates into effective, inspirational teachers and leaders.

Quadnet has been a long standing partner with Teach First, and has helped it grow rapidly from 80 employees to its current 350 staff.

It's hard to look good as an IT department when email systems are slow

Matt Horine, Head of IT

 

Full Case Study

 

How we helped TeachFirst

Matt Horine, the Head of IT at TeachFirst was managing the growth of the IT system from 50 users to 350. With lots of new systems being implemented over 7 sites his users were complaining about the email system.

By using our 3 step process;

1.we assessed how the slow application was affecting business, 2.found the root cause using metric correlation and Opnet tools. 3.kept the system running well using real time dashboards and alerts

% of Time Outlook slow

2011

2012

2013

100%

We looked at how poor the application was performing across all end user types

Birmingham performing poorly in comparison to London

London

Birmingham

 

Manchester

 

WebAccess

100%

100%

100%

We added Manchester when it came on line

What I like about the solution is that it highlights potential problems that could degrade the user experience

Matt Horine, Head of IT

 

Box plot for Overall Response Time

How bad was the problem?

You can see from the graphs that Birmingham was performing badly. The response times went upto 26 seconds

 

Birmingham performing poorly in comparison to London

% of Time Outlook Slow

 

London

 

Birmingham

 

100%

100%

July    Aug   Sept

0

26

Sec

Mon   Tue   Wed   Thu   Fri

July

Stacked Chart for Process Response Times

26

Sec

 

0

Mon   Tue   Wed   Thu   Fri

July

Address book

Open Folder

Send and Receive

 

Kept application performing well

We created clear real time dashboards which led people to the problem and sent email alerts to tell IT staff that application is not performing well

 

Email alert received as Manchester users are experiencing end user response time problems

 

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