Case Study: IHG Hotels & Resorts boosts IT efficiency with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

IHG Hotels & Resorts boosts IT efficiency by 60% with Fortinet

IHG Hotels & Resorts, a global hospitality company, faced challenges managing its complex and diverse technology systems from multiple vendors. These systems were vulnerable to security risks from bad actors and struggled with high costs, network bottlenecks, and meeting new cloud and mobile application requirements. To address this, IHG turned to vendor Fortinet for a solution involving its Secure SD-WAN service.

Fortinet implemented its Secure SD-WAN solution across 4,000 IHG sites, supported by FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer for centralized management. The results included a forecasted 60% boost in IT team efficiency and a 30% reduction in round-trip latency out of the box. The deployment, completed in 15 months, significantly improved IHG's security posture and its ability to meet cloud and mobile needs, with a 25% reduction in costs forecasted.

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