Case Study: Pernod Ricard India achieves 91% WAN performance improvement with Riverbed SteelHead

Multinational Alcoholic Beverage Company Transforms Core Infrastructure With Riverbed Steelhead

Pernod Ricard India, the Indian arm of the global wines and spirits leader with roughly 1,000 users across 70 offices, faced chronic IT problems that hindered productivity and growth: poor application performance across the WAN (including unacceptable ERP and slow email/portal access), inconsistent domain authentication and patching at low‑bandwidth remote sites, rising bandwidth costs, and limited ability to adopt new technology or support expansion.

To address this the company deployed Riverbed SteelHead WAN‑optimization appliances at more than 50 sites. The rollout delivered LAN‑like speeds and doubled application responsiveness, enabled a seamless JD Edwards ERP rollout with real‑time transactions, restored reliable patching and antivirus delivery to remote endpoints, and reduced WAN traffic—yielding a 91% overall performance improvement (89% ERP, 83% file server, 67% email) while lowering bandwidth use and improving security.

Pernod Ricard India

Manoj Pradhan

Head IT Infrastructure & Operations