Case Study: SGS achieves guaranteed application performance and significant bandwidth savings with Infovista

With all-in-one InfoVista’s solution, SGS guarantees the savings on its international network

SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company with more than 1,000 offices and around 800 sites across 10 regions (about 40,000 network users), needed better visibility and proactive management of its MPLS/IPsec international network. Key challenges included guaranteeing performance for centralized business applications (notably Oracle and Tradeworks), limited traffic visibility at the application level, and avoiding expensive bandwidth upgrades. SGS selected Infovista’s all‑in‑one Application Aware SD‑WAN solution to provide application‑level monitoring, proactive alerts and unified optimization.

Infovista implemented its Application Aware SD‑WAN with central management and reporting plus traffic prioritization, shaping, compression, acceleration and caching. The deployment delivered comprehensive visibility, eliminated end‑user performance complaints, and produced measurable savings: roughly 45% bandwidth reduction for Tradeworks, 20–25% for messaging, ~60% for SharePoint and an expected ~15% telecom cost reduction while avoiding future bandwidth upgrades. Infovista’s solution also enabled ongoing WAN governance and detailed application usage reporting.

SGS

David Dodds

Global Network & Security Manager