Monolith Software Presents a Video Testimonial


with Craig Yappert from Oracle

Senior Director, Enterprise Monitoring Solutions


For your convenience this interview is offered in six chapters, two~five minutes each. Click the tabs below to navigate to each chapter and see topical highlights for each.

1. Mixed Bag
2. Simplify
3. Dramatic
4. Critical Factors
5. Right Solution
6. Saving $50m

    A mixed bag of tools presents challenges



  • “We had 10-12 different tools we were using for our infrastructure management.”
  • “We’re almost doubling the size of our network.”

    We want to simplify complexity



  • “We asked ourselves, do we want to add another tool to the mix, or do we want to make the effort to consolidate our infrastructure management?"
  • “With Monolith, we’re creating a unified view to the end user.”

    Dramatic rise in customer satisfaction



  • “It’s pretty powerful, to go from pieces of technology, or devices, on the network management system to logical groupings of capability.”
  • “Our customers say…we trust you now.”
  • “These are important things to do, because it provides business context for how the network is providing service to the business.”

    Two critical factors in the decision



  • “The reason we didn’t do this before is, frankly, the other tools out there couldn’t do it.”
  • “The first thing that interested us is that Monolith allows us to visualize our data, not just from a technical perspective, but also from a business perspective.”
  • “The second thing is that Monolith is open architecture. We were able to leverage our data to fit our needs rather than having to live within the confines of the tool as provided by the vendor.”

    This is the right solution for us



  • “We need to get our Return on Investment as quickly as possible.”
  • “With Monolith we planned ROI in about two years. But we actually achieved that in a little over one year.”
  • “Technically, the right solution must be equivalent or superior to the products we currently have.”
  • “The Monolith solution reduces the complexity of our IT infrastructure management, so we can manage and do more.”
  • “Our proof of concept was 5,000 devices on our network out of a total device count of 7,500.”
  • “Monolith was robust enough to do the implementation in very quick fashion.”

    Saving $50 million a year



  • “Monolith has allowed us to extend beyond just a collection of devices to treating our business as a service provider.”
  • “Now we can define our network infrastructure, and how we manage and monitor it, within the context of a service provider.”
  • “Recently we finished the acquisition of Sun Microsystems and added 2,500 devices on the network.”
  • “We were able to integrate and implement this within Monolith in 45 days.”
  • “This allowed us to save Oracle about $50 million per year.”
  • “Enabling rapid transition, rapid integration, rapid growth, and the ability to map it into the business has been critical for us.”