Case Study: Global consumer goods manufacturer achieves $1.37M first-year savings and doubles WAN capacity with TenFour

Global Consumer Goods Manufacturer Achieves Significant Savings and Flexibility

Global consumer goods manufacturing Company faced an overburdened, fragmented IT environment after acquisitions and increased cloud adoption — including an overloaded, disparate WAN, aging LAN infrastructure, limited visibility from its incumbent outsourcer, and a need to shift IT from break/fix to strategic work. To address these challenges they engaged TenFour (a Premier Service Provider for Red Forge Continuous Infrastructure Service (CIS®)) to deliver a flexible, centrally managed, on‑premises IT infrastructure-as-a-service.

TenFour conducted a Catalyst study and deployed its pre-tested reference architecture and CIS platform, replacing five regional WANs with a single AT&T‑backed global WAN, modernizing wired/wireless LANs, and adding centralized ITIL-based management and co-management capabilities. The result: doubled WAN bandwidth, deployment times cut from ~2 months to 2 weeks, first‑year savings of $1.37M, WAN staff reduced from 8 to 4, WAN support costs down 39% and LAN operations projected down 40%, with overall TCO improvements of roughly 25–34% (about 30% by 2016) and multi‑year savings exceeding $5M — all delivered by TenFour.