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1. THE BEGINNING
This innovation initially came to life when…
A teenager developed a little script (a type of computer program) to make life easier for the network administrators he was working with. The script was made because the leading industry tools for network monitoring were fine for small networks, but were inadequate and cumbersome for very large corporate networks.
Over the years, the script expanded to become a fully fledged monitoring application to solve the problems current tools just simply couldn’t handle. One day it became obvious that the handy little tool was now more complete and phenomenally better to use than the world’s leading commercial products.
2. WHAT & HOW
The purpose of this innovation is to…
…assist IT stakeholders to monitor and manage their entire IT infrastructure. The dashboard is used to view an entire organisation’s infrastructure at a glance. Intelligent escalation rules send sms or email alerts when potential issues are identified.
It does this by…
…providing simple and easy to use bird’s eye views including a single pane view of over 30,000 devices in one screen. This is coupled with extensive detailed graphs and special data visualisations down to an individual cable level.
3. PURPOSE & BENEFITS
This innovation improves on what came before because…
It is the most scalable product of its kind. Most monitoring tools cannot handle networks with 30,000+ devices. The ones that can require multiple servers with multiple licenses.
Megamon runs on a single virtual appliance no matter how large the network is. You simply turn it on and it automatically discovers the network, sets itself up and automatically updates itself.
Its various benefits to the customer/end-user include…
It is much faster and easier to identify and troubleshoot issues. For large organisations this can save millions of dollars in lost revenue from system downtime. Similarly, keeping critical health and safety infrastructure online can literally save lives.
4. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
In the past, this problem was solved by…
…expensive and cumbersome equipment. Network administrators required special training and certification to configure and operate their monitoring systems, cutting off other teams and stakeholders from accessing and utilizing essential operational information.
Now all IT stakeholders can collaborate with a comprehensive view of the entire IT infrastructure in an intuitive and easy way.
Its predecessors/competitors include…
…individual monitoring components each used by disparate teams. For example, the Unix team would use one monitoring product while the Windows team used another and the communications team used something else again.
5. TARGET MARKET
It is made for…
…organisations with very large and complex networks. For example an airline might have IT infrastructure at over 100 airports. This would include everything from core switches to baggage ticket printers or mobile phones.
These sorts of organisations can view their entire organisation from a big screen in their head office and with one glance even non-technical people can understand the current state of the network. They can see if any locations are offline, how many devices are offline at that location and what type of devices are offline.
It is available for sale through…
the Megamon website at www.megamon.com
Our marketing strategy is to…
…showcase our high caliber clients and increase brand recognition through downloads of a free community edition.
FINE PRINT: This SMART 100 profile and the information it contains is a duplication of content submitted by the applicant during the entry process. As a function of entry, applicants were required to declare that all details are factually correct, do not infringe on another’s intellectual property and are not unlawful, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. Some profiles have been edited for reasons of space and clarity.
