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Business Acceleration

issue 1 - June 2007
Business Acceleration is a suite of services that improves how your applications perform and interact. We can recommend ways for you to use your applications within a more efficient communications infrastructure. And as your needs grow and change we can provide you with world-class support and consulting, backed up with application-based service level agreements for extra peace of mind.
 
business challenge
When your applications aren’t performing well, neither is your business. That’s why you need to focus on application performance in line with your corporate goals, managing the whole environment to achieve your investment objectives.
 
our solution
Business Acceleration is a suite of integrated professional services and on-going management services that are designed to improve application performance in enterprise networks. Business Acceleration helps you see how your critical and non-critical applications behave and interact. It allows us to recommend the best solutions, all guaranteed through application-level service level agreements.
 
our approach
This suite of application-centric networking services encompasses three phases:
  • analyze: to gain visibility into your communications infrastructure and the applications that you rely on most, we will:
        - benchmark and align IT transactions to business priorities
       - model the end-to-end environment in order to study various change scenarios
       - validate application and infrastructure performance individually and holistically
  • manage: to ensure your infrastructure and application environment is efficient and harmonized we offer:
        - dashboards for ongoing performance improvements through QoS and web traffic prioritization
        - service level management including monitoring, reporting and real-time fault management for improved control
        - application service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure end-users can expect a guaranteed performance from their business tools
  • optimize: to make sure your infrastructure is working at its best and is aligned with your business, we provide:
        - compression to maximize use of bandwidth and throughput
        - caching at appropriate regional locations to minimize application latency
        - consolidation of servers, applications and network equipment
 
the result:
By understanding how applications perform in your network, we can manage their impact and performance. Business Acceleration gives you an all round improvement in application experience backed up with an application-level SLA that offers:
  • actionable recommendations that will improve the performance of your applications and your business
  • world-class management of your end-to-end communications and application environment
  • alignment of costs and resources to improve global application performance
 
business benefits
Business Acceleration delivers tangible results. It maximizes your existing investment in applications and infrastructure, ensuring employees are more productive and business goals are met. It does this by guaranteeing improved application performance and availability, and allowing you to allocate resources essential for business health. With Business Acceleration, you can reap the benefits of sustainable growth with minimal investments and disruption.