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State and local government solutions
Keep data secure, migrate easily and simplify database management.
State and local government IT departments face pressure to do more with less.
Agencies focus on consolidating and migrating legacy systems, staying ahead of
cybersecurity threats and maintaining compliance. Keeping critical systems for
public safety running 24/7 is another priority.
Reduce risk and increase the efficiency of your platforms so you can shift IT resources to innovation. Our award-winning solutions help simplify migration, security and management of your on-premises, Office 365 or hybrid environment. These solutions help you manage complex environments to ensure optimal database performance across a wide variety of both on-premises and cloud-based systems.
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Quest: Your Go-To For Everything Microsoft
Capabilities
Discover how Quest solutions can help you overcome the limitations of native tools by automating and simplifying security, management and migration in your Microsoft and database environments.
Hybrid Active Directory security
Cybercriminals see your agency as an attractive target because of the sensitive personal data you store — including Social Security and driver’s license numbers, credit card information, and police reports. Secure your agency’s on-premises or hybrid Active Directory environment with Quest solutions that help assess permissions continuously to identify threats, detect and alert on suspicious activity, remediate and mitigate unauthorized actions and investigate and recover from cybersecurity breaches.
Data preparation and reporting
Streamline data preparation and automate reporting tasks to improve the productivity of your analyst teams. Utilize multiple database platforms for reporting without impacting the downstream business processes. Utilize tools for cross-connection querying, data quality assessment, data profile analysis, data manipulation and automated reporting. Elevate the proficiency of technical and nontechnical users across a breadth of database technologies.
Database development and management
Automate routine tasks, ensure high-quality data, standardize database performance monitoring, drive greater data availability and become more agile with our proven solutions.
Get the power to respond rapidly to change. Blaze through development cycles, and minimize the risks associated with bugs, performance issues, coding standards, dispersed teams and more. Resolve problems before they impact your end user experience.
Database replication
Whether you are upgrading your current environment or migrating to a more economical platform, ensuring that your data remains secure and compliant is critical. Learn how our database replication solution can guarantee a smooth and safe migration or upgrade of your Oracle and SQL Server databases. Experience near-zero downtime or impact to mission-critical systems while keeping your data accurate and secure.
Database performance management
Consolidate and standardize database performance management. Seamlessly monitor complex and diverse database environments. Get valuable insight into your database resources, workload analytics and change tracking. Receive a holistic view of multiplatform environments so you can collaborate among teams and detect and resolve performance issues before they impact your database.
Governance, risk and compliance
Keeping up with ever-changing compliance mandates, such as FISMA, NIST, PCI DSS and HIPAA, can be a burden for your agency. And noncompliance can lead to fines or loss of funding. Quest solutions for state and local government can help continually assess, monitor, govern and control your Microsoft systems. Ensure visibility into your environment, simplify compliance reporting, and automate processes to reduce the risk of data breaches, failed audits and system downtime.
Management and administration
Streamline administration of Active Directory, Exchange, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Teams and Office 365. Simplify a wide range of tasks, including reporting, user and group management, provisioning and deprovisioning, Group Policy and permissions management and backup and recovery. See how our solutions can automate processes and overcome the limitations of native tools, so you can reduce the resources needed for day-to-day management and meet the demands of your agency and your users.
Microsoft migration and consolidation
With resource and budget constraints, as well as the risks and limitations of legacy infrastructure, your agency needs a cost-efficient platform that reduces your IT footprint and improves your security posture. Learn how our state and local government solutions ensure a ZeroIMPACT migration for Active Directory and Office 365 workloads such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Teams. Simplify and automate migration tasks so you can finish projects faster while minimizing the costs, risk and disruption to users.
Supported Platforms
Quest has a long history of helping state and local government agencies improve database efficiency and performance, as well as migrate, secure and manage data across platforms. Click below for info on each platform.
Active Directory
Reduce risk and cost by optimizing your Active Directory. Ensure a secure, compliant and available environment with solutions for restructuring and directory consolidation, security and compliance, disaster recovery, automation and provisioning.
Cisco
Monitor usage and trends within Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Build chargebacks based on call types, users and departments. Take inventory of your environment, conferences and peer-to-peer sessions, and compare usage to Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business to help assess usage and adoption.
Exchange
Make Exchange Server more compliant, available, secure and efficient. Our solutions enable you to migrate, secure, audit, maintain and recover Exchange without using native tools. Ensure coexistence and manage your messaging environment faster — and with ZeroIMPACT.
IBM DB2
Administer, manage and maintain IBM DB2 databases, whether running DB2 LUW or DB2 z/OS.
Lotus Notes
Slash IBM Lotus Notes migration costs up to 60 percent and migrate three times faster with superior data fidelity. Ensure a ZeroIMPACT email and application migration to Office 365, Exchange and SharePoint. Easily perform pre-migration analysis to effectively plan and mitigate risk, as well as ensure seamless coexistence to keep the migration from impacting end users.
MySQL
Minimize the MySQL learning curve from development and querying to diagnostics and reporting.
Office 365
Simplify your Office 365 migration, management and security needs. We help you stay in control — whether in Office 365 or a hybrid environment.
OneDrive for Business
Migrate, manage and secure your OneDrive for Business content to streamline data governance and enable effective collaboration.
Oracle
Get the insight and automation you need to maximize your Oracle investment in record time.
SAP HANA
Simplify the adoption of SAP HANA with zero-downtime migrations.
SharePoint
Accelerate and streamline migration, management and security in your on-premises and cloud-based SharePoint environments.
SQL Azure
Get to the cloud faster — quickly deploy, manage, monitor and leverage SQL Azure for maximum ROI.
SQL Server
Increase productivity, reduce costs and protect your data, while enabling DBAs to cut their workload by up to 80 percent.
Teams
Seamlessly migrate, manage and report on Teams utilization
Windows Server
Make your environment secure, compliant and available. Elevate performance for Windows Server management, security, auditing and migration.
Resources
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