Dell KACE Studies

Dell KACE Appliances are deployed across all industries and the globe. Read the following KACE Studies to see how leading organizations are addressing their system management needs with KACE Appliances.

Charlotte School of Law

"We were absolutely blown away by the breadth of features the K1000 Management Appliance offered." – Ryan Haylock, Director of IT Services at Charlotte School of Law

Peterpans

"Once the solution is out in the field and running it’s pretty much self-managed. That’s one of the reasons we like the Dell KACE Appliances so much." – Donovan Petersen, IT Manager, Peterpans Adventure Travel

City of Wagga Wagga

"It’s a complete management system that allows us to take full control of the PCs. We have gained benefit from the KACE Appliance from day-one." – Michael Schmid, Manager of Information Technology

Rogers

"The KACE Virtual Appliance is so flexible the things we are able to do are limited only by our imaginations and ingenuity." – Scott Baehr, Systems Administrator at Rogers Retail

City of Columbia

"The thing I appreciate most about our KACE Appliance solution is that it saves our IT team a tremendous amount time and that translates to a great deal of money." – Rick Harrison, MIS director at the City of Columbia

Pueblo School District 70

"To think we almost hired additional IT team members to handle our growing systems management demands is laughable when in the end we just needed KACE." – Julie Budz, IT specialist at Pueblo School District 70

Island Hospital

"We estimate we saved over $110,000 during the first year alone using the KACE Appliance. Seriously, the hardest part of deploying the KACE Appliance was running the wires! Most important, however is the technology gave us back hundreds of work hours." – Steve Coryell, IT Assistant Director at Island Hospital

Ping

"Our decision to move forward with KACE has dramatically increased our overall IT efficiency. Our IT focus shifted from worrying how to maintain all these systems to focusing on the solution." – Eric Hart, End-user Computing Manager at PING

Academy School District 20

"Right off the bat our KACE Appliances dramatically improved the management of our large and diverse IT environment, enabling our IT team to focus on more strategic projects." – Shelley Kooser, CIO of Academy School District 20

Isambard Community School

"With KACE, we are able to manage all our desktops regardless of the different operating systems from one central point and at a cost-effective price." – Matt Garland, IT Network Manager at Isambard Community School

Mercy Medical Center

"The KACE Appliance handled our large, complex infrastructure with ease. We crunched the numbers and found the KACE Appliance had a one-year ROI of half-a-million dollars and had paid for itself in less than three months." – Steve Wagner, Senior Microsoft Engineer, Mercy Medical Center

Wilbur-Ellis

"I saw a demo of the KACE Appliance at a computer industry conference and it convinced me that this is the exact type of tool we need: a Swiss army knife of functions, in a simple appliance that didn’t require outside networking experts to run it." – Rick Cahoon, IT Support Manager, Wilbur-Ellis

Lake Sumter Emergency Medical Service

"What KACE does is take complex tasks and boil them down to seamless efforts. We save a tremendous amount of time on IT tasks thanks to our KACE Appliances and it’s a wonderful thing." – Jim Root, CIO, Lake Sumter EMS

Allianz Global

"Immediately after deploying our KACE Appliance we began reaping benefits that we long wanted with our other software solution, but simply were not able to achieve. Along with being easy-to-use and offering incredible time savings with the tasks that we perform each day, we found the KACE Appliance to be incredibly flexible and reliable." – Jeffrey Jones, Services Manager, Allianz Global

Maui County

"The KACE Virtual Appliance has delivered on all of KACE’s promises and saves us a tremendous amount of time, money and also space—all three exceptionally important aspects of systems management to us." – Carmela Ho, Computer Systems Support Technician, Maui County

St. Hilda’s High School

"Looking at the KACE Systems Management and Systems Deployment Appliances, we saw that they could provide all the functionality that we required in one place, which would greatly reduce the teamís system management overhead." – Lee Ellis, Network Manager, St. Hilda’s High School

Austin Diagnostic Clinic

"Initially, it seemed that it may be too good to be true, but we quickly realized that KACE really delivered on what it said it could deliver, and this fact was only solidified by the immediate one-day ROI we experienced once we deployed the technology." – Ed Leonard, Systems and Network Administrator, Austin Diagnostic Clinic

Grey Worldwide

"KACE technology allows smaller teams, as well as large teams, to run a very smart IT shop by allowing us to easily manage issues before they grow into bigger problems. This is on top of the first-class support we get for our KACE Appliance and the ability to manage daily maintenance tasks with ease." – Chris Head, IT Manager, Grey Worldwide

Truliant Federal Credit Union

"We looked at a lot of products but the KACE Appliance bundles multiple applications, which actually saves us a lot of money. It's one application instead of many." – Jason Allen, Help Desk Technician, Truliant Federal Credit Union

Wellington West Capital Inc.

"The KACE Appliance did everything that it claimed to do. Even with a computer that was not on our network physically, everything worked as it should. Everything we wanted to accomplish was possible through this the KACE Appliance." – David Boissonneault, Senior Information Technology Specialist, Wellington West Capital Inc.

City of Franklin

"The all-in-one appliance means you have less to manage and set up and maintain. We had it running within a few hours. And I can keep things updated without the user ever knowing." – Jason Potts, Network Administrator, City of Franklin

Holland Company LP

"The KACE Appliance has prevented us from having to hire two additional people in the IT department. The appliance has more than earned its keep. We will continue to see additional benefits from using KACE." – Lynne Sabuco, Manager, Client Services, Holland Company LP

Jordan's Furniture

"Incredibly, our IT staff was up and running with the KACE Appliance in less than four hours. We found that alternatives [to the KACE Appliance] were more complicated and much more cost- and time-consuming to deploy." – Jason Cummins, Information Services Manager, Jordan's Furniture

Portland Community College

"Its appliance-based software delivery architecture made deployment so simple it was almost plug-and-play. It works with our existing tools and apps, and its reporting abilities are helping us make smart equipment purchase and replacement decisions." – Michael Heuer, Technology Solution Services Customer Support Manager, Portland Community College

DRT Manufacturing Company

"The appliance approach blows competing products out of the water from ‘time to implement’ standpoint, and the ease of use, affordability and software distribution capabilities of the KACE Appliance made it an easy choice for us." – David Geis, CIO, DRT

Boyd County Public Library

"For me, the KACE Appliance is like an extra person on our IT team–an extra set of legs." – Leigh Scaggs, Network Administrator, Boyd County Public Library

Battle Ground Academy (BGA)

"Imaging tasks used to take forever–a day per machine, to be exact. Using the KACE Appliance we're able to image almost 100 machines
in a day." – Andrew Peercy, Administrator of IT Operations, Battle Ground Academy

Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

"I can explain the KACE solution in three words: simple, elegant, affordable–everything we were looking for in a systems deployment solution." – Guy Fuller, Technology Director, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

Royal Liver

"We recently rolled out a number of new files to the machines in one of our business units. With the KACE Appliance, it was one person and one click to deploy all 50 machines simultaneously." - Mark McCann, IS Customer Support Manager, Royal Liver

Dexter and Southfield Schools

"In our environment I would say that without the KACE Appliance, we would have had to hire two or three more people." – Michael Williams, IT manager, Dexter and Southfield Schools

Holmesdale Technology College

"The KACE Appliance worked the first time perfectly. You configure it once and test and send out live and you don't have to worry about it. It just works. It's like having another member of the team, whose sole purpose is to install software." – Gareth Waghorn, Information Communication Technology Strategy Manager, Holmesdale Technology College

Renovis

"The AD integration is very important to us. It allows users to log into the KACE Appliance to use it as a portal without needing a new username and password, and doesn't create more accounts for IT to manage." – Mark Bernfield, Senior Systems Administrator, Renovis

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley

"There is virtually no maintenance on our part. Installation was practically non-existent. Normally you have to buy a server, buy an OS, set all that up, configure the software, maintain it, back it up, and none of that is an issue with the KACE Appliance." – Patti Bentley, IT Director, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley

GPS Engineering Company

"The KACE support staff has been fabulous and wonderful to work with. And we estimate 375 person hours per month in labor savings as we integrate the KACE Appliance into our routine" – Support Analyst, GPS Engineering Company

Benchmark Group

"To date, I have not had anything that the KACE Appliance couldn't roll out; coupled with the KACE support staff, the KACE Appliance has made my job much easier because I no longer have to monitor certain items and I know I can call for help if needed." – Chris Blake, Systems Technician, Benchmark Group