PROVO, UT — July 16, 2001 — Hewitt Associates LLC is a global management consulting and outsourcing firm specializing in human resource solutions with clients including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 and more than a third of the Global 500. The company works with organizations to help them realign their long-term business strategies, day-to-day administration and delivery of benefits, human resources, and compensation services. With more than 12,000 associates in 79 offices in 37 countries worldwide, Hewitt is the largest employee benefits consulting firm in the U.S. and the largest multiservice benefits delivery provider in the world.
Hewitt turned to Novell for a network management solution that would allow for increased growth, ease the burden on system administrators, and keep the organization's most sensitive data secure. The combination of Novell NetWare and NDS eDirectory provided a scalable, flexible and secure system that could be customized to fit the changing network needs of the company. With a centralized focus on administration, system administrators were able to easily add new users across multiple locations, often as many as 50 to 100 people per week.
"Novell's network management system has given us the flexibility and stability to grow exponentially the past several years without adding multiple resources to support the growth," said Ed Segraves, LAN engineer at Hewitt Associates. "In fact, we've actually been able to significantly reduce the hardware resources required by server consolidation. Over the past three years, we have migrated from nine servers serving 1,000 people to four servers serving 5,000 people. We couldn't have done it without NetWare and eDirectory."
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