Enterprise Application Management

business challenge

Poor application performance can have a dramatic impact on end-user productivity and can damage business profitability. But improving the performance of applications can be challenging as it depends on a number of different factors beyond the server and data center infrastructure. Key among these is the network, particularly if you have consolidated data centers to save costs and standardize IT resources. The adoption of cloud computing makes the network even more important, and you will need to implement the right tools to ensure the performance of business-critical applications.

our solution

To help you manage the performance of your applications over the network, we have added another service to our Business Acceleration portfolio. Enterprise Application Management by Riverbed delivers application acceleration and WAN optimization
with the option of opex-based pricing. We provide flexible equipment ownership options, enhanced by expert advice and
one-time or recurring consulting via our global professional services team.

our approach

We have standardized Riverbed as our technology partner for Enterprise Application Management. Our consultants will analyze your application profile to determine the most effective solution for you. We provide deployment and maintenance services (consulting and equipment resell and leasing) as well as managed services (leasing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring and consulting).

the result

Our first customers have experienced impressive results, including:

• reduced data traffic on their network by 31%

• SharePoint response down to seconds

• reduced data in optimized applications by 62%

• shorter NetApp back-up from 104 to 7 minutes

• Outlook address book download down from 30 to 2 minutes

•  increased employee productivity by 50%

business benefi ts

By deploying our Riverbed-based Enterprise Application Management solution, you can achieve higher end-user productivity, faster return on investment and a lower total cost of ownership. Key benefits include:

• return on investment (ROI) within a year or less

• quicker application response times and improved employee productivity

• deferred bandwidth upgrades and increased WAN capacity

• reduced IT capital expenditures and administrative and management overhead

• predictable budget and cost visibility

• increased focus of IT staff on key business tasks

• through outsourcing non-core activities

• key contributor to a greener IT by optimizing existing infrastructure.