If your IT shop is like most, you need to increase network efficiency to lower costs and save time. This white paper explores a network management consolidation and standardization approach to automate troubleshooting and other network management tasks that saved over 3,500 hours of work annually. Read on to learn how this automated event and root cause analysis approach enabled one organization-the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications-to realize the following IT improvements:

• Improved mean-time-to-repair by 20%
  
• Reduced management complexity by decreasing the number of network management applications
  
• Unified network fault and performance management across multi-vendor networks to improve network availability and performance
  More effective staff resources management