Case Study: CenterPoint Properties achieves 63% reduction in Office 365 traffic and eliminates user performance complaints with Riverbed SteelHead SaaS

CenterPoint Properties - Customer Case Study

CenterPoint Properties, a 110‑person industrial real estate developer managing 45 million sq. ft. and 5,850 acres, was migrating core systems to the cloud (Office 365, OneDrive, Azure) but ran into slow Office 365 performance that frustrated users, reduced productivity and risked costly project delays. Early user resistance to the “cloud” and growing bandwidth concerns made improving SaaS performance a top IT priority.

CenterPoint worked with Riverbed—using SteelHead appliances, SteelCentral NetExpress and SteelHead SaaS, plus Riverbed Professional Services—to accelerate Office 365 and gain application‑aware network monitoring. The deployment cut Office 365 traffic by 63%, eliminated performance complaints without adding bandwidth, sped troubleshooting with NetExpress, and simplified new‑office rollouts, restoring productivity and IT agility.

CenterPoint Properties

Beverly Maestas

VP of Technology Operations