Internet Content Filtering at Cardinal Health Increases Productivity

Health Care Internet Content Filter 8e6 R2000 Internet Filter and Enterprise Reporter - Summary

The 8e6 R2000 Internet Filter, an internet filtering appliance already in use at Cardinal Healthcare, was enhanced with the addition of 8e6 Enterprise Reporter for detailed monitoring and reporting of their employees’ internet usage.

In 2002, Cardinal Health, of Dublin, Ohio, a leading provider of product and services supporting the healthcare industry with (then) annual revenues of over $40 billion dollars had over 2500 workstations and needed an internet filtering solution to limit non-productive use of their network. The 8e6 R2000 Internet Filter product available at that time, met their requirements.

They then also purchased the 8e6 Internet Filtering Reporter add-on, and just four hours after Cardinal Health took delivery of their new 8e6 Enterprise Reporter it was out of the box and doing what it was supposed to do — monitoring and reporting Internet traffic."It's really easy to assemble," says Dan Coburn, network services team leader. "The tech support and helpdesk people are always available and very knowledgeable. It's been a really good experience”.

The internet blocking, monitoring and flash reporting of sites that match a certain criteria have proved cost effective, even though they have only been using the product for six months."There is a lot of research being done in the healthcare industry," says Coburn. "Perhaps some of the sites that our employees want to visit may not be appropriate for another company's employee to visit. We can unblock access to a site if we need to and that's been very beneficial to us. Of course, we can get a site blocked as well and this can protect us from various liability issues.”

The 8e6 Enterprise Reporter, built on a dedicated SQL server that works in conjunction with the 8e6 R2000 and R3000 Internet Filter solutions, provides custom activity reports for tens of thousands of users, in a fraction of the time taken by competitive products. With both these 8e6 Internet Filtering solutions, the network services team employees’ productivity increased by time saved with efficient monitoring and reporting internet usage and regaining control of network bandwidth. The company’s employees productivity increased by taking away the distractions of unauthorized internet access. And that keeps Cardinal's bottom line in very good health.

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