One Platform, Many Applications
People initially start using Splunk for a specific application - troubleshooting problems, enhancing security monitoring or compliance log management. But as they feed it more IT data Splunk becomes valuable for a number of applications. With logs, configurations, messages, alerts and statistics all indexed together, IT functions no longer need to operate as individual silos with their own independent views. Before you know it your business users will discover the power of IT data to gain insights into user and business transactions too.
Availability
Your IT infrastructure and applications have ever more complex and dynamic dependencies. When something breaks, finding and fixing the problem takes too long and costs too much. Splunk indexes every type of IT data from every source and lets you search, alert and report in real time across your entire infrastructure from one place. Recover from problems faster, have less down time, and improve your service levels.
Security
Your security solutions deal with an overwhelming volume of data by filtering events only to produce a smaller number of alerts. But without the original data you can't perform in-depth incident response or threat analysis. With Splunk you can search in real time on any user, network, system or application activity all from one place. Lower your risk and exposure by getting the complete visibility you've always wanted but didn't think you could achieve.
Compliance
E-Discovery, FFIEC, FISMA, HIPAA, IT Governance, PCI, SOX and other mandates require regular review of IT data. But they only work with a small number of data sources, require constant maintenance and are too rigid to be used for other applications. Splunk is a platform that gives you sustainable compliance and leverages the same investment for other applications. Meet compliance requirements for log review, audit trail collection, reporting and file integrity monitoring and empower operations staff and developers too.
Business Intelligence
The problem is not just access to the data. Business users can't effectively analyze application or user activity even if IT provides the data because its too voluminous for tools like Excel or MS-Access. Traditional web analytics and BI tools don't lend themselves to ad hoc access by business analysts. With Splunk, everyone in your organization will be empowered to answer the questions that come up in their jobs about what's happened in your applications and services, without distracting IT.



