Global food distributor improves user management while reducing system
administration time and costs with Novell identity and endpoint
management solutions
WALTHAM, Mass. - Feb. 2, 2009 - Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage,
the number-one national brand of brats, Italian sausage, smoked-cooked
links and fresh breakfast sausage links, has implemented Novell®
identity and endpoint management solutions to achieve a single point of
control for thousands of employee and partner digital identities and
more than 600 desktop systems. By automating identity management with
Novell solutions, Johnsonville Sausage has reduced user management time
and costs by 80 percent.
With global operations in more than 27 countries and a variety of IT
systems to support, Johnsonville Sausage needed a secure and efficient
solution to manage user access for more than 1,800 employees and
external brokers, as well as a centralized desktop management solution
to deliver applications and deploy patches. Working with Paragon
Development Systems (formerly Provident Technologies, Inc.), a Novell
Platinum PartnerSM, Johnsonville Sausage implemented Novell Identity
Manager and Novell Access ManagerTM to improve identity and access
management as well as Novell ZENworks® Configuration Management to gain
better control of their end-user desktop environment.
"Our Novell solutions paid for themselves in a matter of months,"
said Dan Allensworth, infrastructure manager at Johnsonville Sausage.
"Without Novell, we would have had to hire a lot more people to do
basic user and systems management. We would also have had a lot of
frustrated users."
Novell Identity Manager enables Johnsonville Sausage to give users a
single ID and passworwww.novell.com.d to access corporate applications,
such as SAP* HR, financial programs, warehouse management, materials
management and supply chain. In addition, the company's external
brokers now have single sign-on access to its Web-based applications,
improving their ability to do business with Johnsonville Sausage.
"Novell is a leader in identity management," said Angela Daniels,
director for Novell Implementation Services at Paragon Development
Systems. "We evaluated other products, but found Novell offered a
superior solution with the best out-of-the-box connectors."
Johnsonville Sausage also reduced administration time and simplified IT
management with Novell ZENworks. With ZENworks, IT administrators are
able to image machines in 30 minutes and use remote control features to
troubleshoot workstations from a central location.
"In these challenging economic times, streamlining management, while
increasing security and operational efficiency is a smart way for
companies like Johnsonville Sausage to move their business priorities
forward and address their compliance requirements," says Jim Ebzery,
senior vice president and general manager for Identity and Security
Management at Novell. "Novell solutions provide significant cost
savings by helping organizations automate user access and centrally
manage desktop systems more effectively."
For more information about Novell identity and security management
solutions, visit www.novell.com/identityandsecurity. For more
information about Novell ZENworks, visit www.novell.com/zenworks.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT
management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost,
complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of
partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments,
allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information,
visit www.novell.com.
Novell and ZENworks are registered trademarks, Access Manager is a
trademark and Novell Platinum Partner is a service mark of Novell, Inc.
in the United States and other countries. *All third-party trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
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