Blue Giant Equipment Corporation aces IT auditing with ADManager Plus and ADAudit Plus

About Blue Giant

Founded in 1963, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation has been a leading manufacturer of loading docks and material handling equipment. The organization specializes in developing, manufacturing, and distributing loading dock systems and handling equipment, including dock levelers, industrial trucks, vehicle restraints, scissor lift tables, touch controls, dock and door guards, seals and shelters, and HVLS fans.

Company

Blue Giant

Industry

Manufacturing/Supply

Location

United States

Employees

500+

Business challenges

  • IT auditing gaps: Blue Giant's IT department wanted a provision to view audit data as neatly processed information, as opposed to raw logs.

The problem

Blue Giant's IT team faced a pertinent challenge: viewing audit data as parsed, context-rich information.

"Our challenge was to view audit data in a better way than raw Active Directory logs. Viewing the raw logs takes time and they are overwriten over time."

Chris Ellis, IT operations analyst, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation

The organization was in pursuit of a real-time auditing and AD management solution that helps them view the audit data in the form of well-documented information, thereby helping its IT team gain a complete overview of the AD environment.

The solution

The IT team at Blue Giant zeroed in on ADManager Plus and ADAudit Plus, ManageEngine's AD management solution and real-time IT auditing solution, to address their needs. The team leveraged both the solutions to achieve visibility over their organization's AD ecosystem without having to manually sift through logs. Using ADManager Plus and ADAudit Plus' comprehensive catalog of pre-packaged reports, Ellis' team was able to fetch granular information about their IT environment, such as the amount of inactive AD accounts.

Emphasizing on how ADManager Plus helped with troubleshooting AD-related issues.

"Predefined reports give us a list of issues to address in AD."

Chris Ellis, IT operations analyst, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation

"Warnings and alerts give us a better idea of what needs to be attended to. Auditing idle accounts has highlighted accounts that should be disabled and have fallen through the cracks."

Chris Ellis, IT operations analyst, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation

ADManager Plus' on-the-fly AD cleanup feature helped Blue Giant's purge inactive AD accounts at an instant. When asked about the support services provided by ManageEngine.

"Support was quick to respond and take care of any issues i faced during onboarding."

Chris Ellis, IT operations analyst, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation

With concise, actionable reports being delivered to the IT desktops, Ellis expressed satisfaction with his usage of ADManager Plus and ADAudit Plus. He concluded that "ManageEngine's tools are very valuable as they save me a lot of time and highlight issues i may miss."

"ManageEngine's tools are very valuable as they save me a lot of time and highlight issues i may miss."

Chris Ellis, IT operations analyst, Blue Giant Equipment Corporation

About ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus is an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution that simplifies identity management, ensures security, and improves compliance. With ADManager Plus, manage the user life cycle from provisioning to deprovisioning, run access certification campaigns, orchestrate identity management across enterprise applications, and protect data on your enterprise platforms with regular backups. Use over 200 reports to gain valuable insights into identities and their access rights. Improve the efficiency of your IGA operations with workflows, automations, and role-based access control policies. ADManager Plus' Android and iOS applications help with on-the-go AD and Azure AD management. For more information about ADManager Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/.

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