Case Study: The Salvation Army achieves $8,000 per month in productivity savings with Exinda's WAN Optimization Suite

Exinda Helps Drive Savings of $8,000 per Month from Productivity Improvement

The Salvation Army in Australia, a large non‑profit delivering extensive social services across multiple states, faced growing WAN congestion as roughly 2,000 staff worked from a Mont Albert HQ, ~70 branch locations and many home offices. After deploying Citrix to support decentralized applications, bandwidth contention slowed critical apps and printing, and buying more bandwidth was neither cost‑effective nor sustainable. The organization needed a scalable way to prioritize traffic and optimize WAN performance.

The Salvation Army deployed Exinda’s WAN Optimization Suite across its HQ and branch nodes, using Layer‑7 classification, compression, policy‑based QoS and granular reporting to prioritize Citrix and deprioritize non‑critical traffic. The result was faster, more predictable application performance, improved staff productivity and morale, avoidance of costly pipe upgrades, and approximately $8,000 per month in savings that have been redirected to outreach programs.

The Salvation Army

Paul Tero

Network Manager, The Salvation Army, Southern Territory