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About the Company
Sentient is the leading provider of private jet
membership, having launched the initial program in
1999. Upon merging with JetDirect Aviation in 2007, the
combined company created a leading, fully-integrated
private aviation company with the largest non-fractional
fleet of more than 120 jets under management, eight
regional bases, three FAA-approved maintenance
facilities and three Fixed Base Operations. In 2007
Sentient also acquired TAG USA Aviation. The resulting
unit became known as Sentient Flight Group.
Today, Sentient Flight Group stands as a total aviation
solution with a range of services and capabilities,
including aircraft charter and aircraft management. With
its headquarters at Weymouth, MA (USA), Sentient
Flight Group is equipped to fulfill the complete spectrum
of private travel needs and requirements at any time, nearly anywhere in the world. |
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Business Challenge |
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The increase in competition in the Air Charter Services industry, has led to a dramatic
rise in merger pacts and company acquisitions. In the present scenario, acquisitions
serve as powerful channels for an organization's fast growth. Post-acquisition
activities like business restructuring, resource redeployment and creation of
integration mechanisms, are essential to achieve an overall success.
The rapid growth of Sentient during the past 18 months can be accounted to the
merger with JetDirect Aviation and the acquisition of TAG USA Aviation in the year
2007. As an immediate outcome, arose the issue of handling two separate and
independent domain servers. The challenge of integrating the two separate Domain
Servers into one company wide, cohesive Domain without compromising with the
accuracy of data was a crucial task for Sentient Flight Group.
Solutions like writing a custom software tool and manually unloading data from a
domain and dumping it into the other were evaluated to achieve this task. Both the
methods did not prove to be fruitful. While the former had to be given up on the
grounds of limited budgets and time constraints, the latter happened to be a resource
intensive process. As a result, Sentient decided to adopt a pre-existing commercially
available software to merge the domains. |
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Solution |
The dynamic nature of the company structure demanded a tool that could integrate
independent domain servers and thereby allow storage and retrieval of data
irrespective of the resident domains. Among the other software evaluated,
ADManager Plus with its innate list of features and reasonable cost margin was an
immediate choice. In due course of time, ADManager Plus not only met the
immediate needs of Sentient, but also rendered immense support for effective
Management and Reporting of the native Active Directory.
"In the short time that we have had ADManager Plus at our site has become a critical
tool for the management of our day to day Active Directory data. This has occurred
independent of the project it was originally purchased for.", says William Lucoff,
Senior DBA, Sentient Flight Group . |
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ADManager Plus Advantage |
Amongst the several other reasons that led to Sentient's decision to purchase ADManager Plus, the exhaustive list of reports, the batch user creation and
modification module and the ability to access and manage multiple domain servers were the most compelling and impressive ones. Auto generation of
reports is yet another key feature that has added value to Sentient's choice of ADManager Plus. Reports can be scheduled to be generated at regular time
intervals and sent to a specified list of email addresses.
"ADManager Plus aided Rapid discovery, reporting and correction of data anomalies along with the ease of creating new security groups and OUs. remarks William Lucoff."
The Web-based,interactive and intuitive User Interface of ADManager Plus, facilitates even front line personnel to handle User Administration and
Reporting with ease and confidence. Currently, Sentient's Active Directory is efficiently managed by three Help Desk staffs and a Database
Administrator(DBA).
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Result |
| The deployment of ADManager Plus has made life easy for Sentient Flight Group. ADManager Plus has not only given the choice of switching between
domains, but also enhanced Active Directory Administration and Management at Sentient. The user friendly interface of ADManager Plus makes it
possible to be handled even by amateur front line personnel. All the more, ADManager Plus hosts a series of batch execution methods that are easy to
deploy and accurate in terms of the updated data. Acquisitions and company expansions are no more thought, as avenues of Domain integration issues
by DBAs, thanks to ManageEngine ADManager Plus. |
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