Global Consulting Firm Cuts IT Management Time, Hardware and Software Costs by 25-50% while supporting twice as many remote users after deploying Aryaka
Financial Services
8,500 employees
83 Locations
What you will learn?
Introduction
This case study of Alvarez & Marsal, LLC is based on a June 2021 survey of Aryaka Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“Aryaka helped increase availability and improve performance, including some of our cloud applications.”
The Challenge
Prior to deploying Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN solution, Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services firm, was experiencing the following issues with their Virtual Private LAN (VPLS) and local ISP network:
- Slow application performance
- Inability to support large, global remote workforce in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East
Use Case
The company evaluated and ultimately selected Aryaka to enable the following:
- Enable multi-cloud connectivity
- Enable a hybrid workplace of both in-office and remote workers
- Support large, global remote workforce
Results
After deploying Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN solution, the professional services firm experienced the following benefits:
- Faster global application performance for critical applications like Salesforce, Microsoft Office365 and the company’s ERP system
- Increased productivity among end-users
- Stable, reliable connectivity for end-users in previously problematic geographies
Additionally, the IT organization realized the following benefits:
- An estimated 25-50% in time savings after deploying Aryaka
- Ability to support twice as many remote users
- Decrease in network TCO:
- Decrease in hardware costs by 25-50%
- Decrease in software costs by 25% or less
- Decrease in transport costs by 50-75%
- Decrease in staffing/training costs by 75-100%
- Decrease in time spent on incident resolution by 75-100%