Quest Software has announced that Florida Keys Community College (FKCC), an open access educational institution of 2,000 students, is using Toad for Oracle to improve the productivity of its IT staff. When FKCC adopted the SunGard Banner ERP system to deliver a variety of services from student registration and scheduling to financial aid, the college turned to Quest Software and Toad for Oracle to help manage and maintain the critical system, which runs on Oracle. With its deep functionality, extensive automation and intuitive workflows, Toad has not only helped the IT staff increase its productivity and keep up with SLAs, but also provided full ROI to the college within one week of its initial deployment.
In addition, Toad also enables FKCC to comply with audit requests much faster, so the college can avoid potential fines, and also helps the IT staff deliver meaningful reports to internal management quickly and easily, with less chance of error. Toad enables IT to automatically join tables and extract data in one step instead of many, saving time and reducing the risk of human error. "With Toad, our productivity has increased dramatically. Without Toad, I would have to be dedicated to just managing the database, so I'd need a dedicated programmer and a dedicated report writer," Bryan Gilchrist, director of IT, FKCC. "Toad saves us $120,000 in just those two positions. There is no other product I have that delivers that kind of ROI."