Case Study: Solvay achieves 30% telecom cost savings and guaranteed business application performance with Infovista (Ipanema)

SOLVAY reduces telecom costs by 30% while guaranteeing BUSINESS application performances

Solvay, the Belgian chemical group, faced a major IT challenge: support many more sites, users and cloud applications while cutting telecom costs by 30% and guaranteeing business application performance. To meet these goals the company selected Infovista’s technology (Ipanema) — deployed as part of BT’s Connect Optimization managed service — to provide application-aware control across a hybrid MPLS + Internet WAN.

Infovista’s Ipanema solution delivered full visibility, objective-based application SLAs and dynamic bandwidth allocation across MPLS and Internet links, enabling Solvay to move SaaS apps to the cloud without degrading performance. As a result Solvay cut yearly telecom costs by 30% (2008–2013), protected business application performance and improved bandwidth utilization and end-user satisfaction while avoiding large incremental bandwidth upgrades.

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