Case Study: ACI Specialty Benefits achieves 40% faster network performance and 40% ROI with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform

ACI Specialty Benefits Protecting Global Customer Assets in the Fast-Growing SaaS Employee Benefits Market

ACI Specialty Benefits is a global SaaS provider of employee well-being and benefits programs that grew rapidly through acquisitions, creating disparate legacy systems and limited visibility across its environment. Facing a 99.999% uptime SLA and the need to secure HIPAA-regulated data for a growing, mobile workforce (handling terabytes of data monthly), ACI needed to standardize security, simplify administration and rapidly onboard new users and devices without inflating costs.

ACI deployed the Palo Alto Networks Next‑Generation Security Platform (including Panorama, GlobalProtect, WildFire and URL Filtering) to centralize management, extend consistent endpoint protection and speed threat analysis. The rollout was fast and met uptime requirements, improving network and application speed by ~40%, enabling 50% more BYOD endpoints, cutting CapEx and service costs by ~20%, and delivering an overall ~40% ROI while strengthening protection for mission‑critical applications and global users.

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Ryan Fay

Chief Information Officer