Performance monitoring that accelerates service growth

What Tire Profiles LLC does

How TPI accelerates auto customer retention and service growth

TPI is the industry leader in tire and alignment measurement, as well as diagnostic systems and instruments. It helps auto dealerships accelerate their service growth.

How? By using best-in-class technology to increase customer retention, service revenue, and profitability at their repair facilities.

Data from the tire manufacturing industry shows 93% of consumers defect from dealers when they need to buy tires. What’s more, less than 20% ever come back. TPI’s products and software improve tire sales and help reduce customer defections.

After scanning more than 25 million vehicles, TPI’s data shows that there’s an even greater opportunity in wheel alignments for dealers to turbocharge their revenue.

And through increased tire sales, alignments and around-the-wheel work, TPI helps its customers put the pedal to the metal on service growth.

But things haven’t always been a smooth drive at TPI, especially when it came to monitoring its own systems.

The Challenge

Bringing TPI’s monitoring into alignment

The Solution

Kicking the tires with Site24x7

At the time, TPI had a small amount of monitoring in place - but it was unreliable. Jamie had existing ties with Site24x7, having used the monitoring services in the past, so he already knew the potential power of our monitoring and alerting services.

The Impact

Reliable alerts for trouble under the hood

Using Site24x7 is a decision Jamie definitely doesn’t regret. Particularly as TPI’s product isn’t just one product - they sell hardware and they sell to companies that interact with TPI’s back-end web services in different ways.

There are a lot of parts to keep an eye on. And a lot of ways that TPI’s product performance could stall. As a result, it can be challenging to keep it on track.

But by working with Site24x7, TPI has been able to finetune their performance, all round.

And Jamie says he can’t even contemplate how hard it would be now for him to switch from Site24x7 to another solution. The help has simply been irreplaceable.

Site24x7 AppLogs

Everything in one clear dashboard

What makes the Site24x7 experience particularly enjoyable for Jamie?

The existence of Site24x7 AppLogs.

TPI is now almost completely cloud-based in its infrastructure. They have lots of different log types and many different, disconnected things going on.

But before they teamed up with Site24x7, they found it hard to draw all that data together into a single pane of glass for triage.

And because TPI is constantly moving forward, Jamie needs to be able to keep adding monitoring for all the different types of products they build.

To get what he needs, Jamie doesn’t want to have to go out and buy four different subscriptions to four different solutions. He just wants everything in one comprehensive toolbox.

And that’s what Site24x7 gives him.

Return on investment

High performance without premium prices

Since putting Site24x7 in the driving seat, TPI has stepped up its monitoring to 400 basic monitors, 15 advanced monitors, plus a lot of storage and AppLogs.

And the list is constantly being added to as they keep ingesting more and more data. With this in mind, TPI is preparing to scale with Site24x7 for the next five years at least – maybe forever.

What’s more, Site24x7 provides value for money and is easy to use.

Jamie has come from a company that was quite large, whereas TPI isn’t huge. His previous company would spend $100,000 on monitoring with another solution in any given year.

But that solution needed employees who knew how to use it, as it wasn’t straightforward to use. It wasn’t possible to just step in with a web browser and have results in an hour. The employees really had to know what you were doing.

Now, TPI has the luxury of being able to spend just $500 or $600 a month and know that the team of 10 developers are going to be alerted when something may not be right. This allows TPI to focus its money elsewhere, where it’s needed.

And Site24x7 has helped Jamie and his small team operate without a network operations center (NOC). That’s all because the product is reliable and can be customized and configured to act as a middleman.

Customer support

Going the extra mile

But what really impresses Jamie is how receptive Site24x7 is to his feedback. For instance, when he suggested something that would be really useful for TPI, two weeks later it showed up as a mainstream product release of an agent.

Which is why, for Jamie, Site24x7 takes the checkered flag and stands on top of the drivers’ podium.