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Customer Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name: SoftwareONE
Industry: IT Services
Location: Headquarters in Stans, Switzerland,
with offices in more than 60 countries worldwide
with offices in more than 60 countries worldwide
Number of Employees: 1400
Partner: Netcloud Switzerland
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
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Provide superior applications and data access
performance for branch office network with
centralized data center
centralized data center
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Contain operating costs and IT management
burdens by maintaining simple, modular
infrastructure at branch office level
infrastructure at branch office level
NETWORK SOLUTION
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services
delivered via Cisco Wide Area Application
Virtualization Engine (WAVE) appliances
Virtualization Engine (WAVE) appliances
BUSINESS RESULTS
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Fast, simple deployment and centralized
management of branch office WAN
optimization
optimization
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Application performance improvements up to
300 percent
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Investment protection afforded by collaborative
Cisco approach to WAAS
WAN Optimization Helps Software Licenser
Maintain Competitive Edge
Maintain Competitive Edge
Branch offices and customers worldwide access SoftwareONE’s centralized data in
real time with Cisco WAAS appliances.
real time with Cisco WAAS appliances.
Business Challenge
In business, growth may be a good problem to have, but it is a
problem nonetheless. It can stretch resources, human and
otherwise, to the breaking point. Growth can also add layers of
complexity to what were once simple processes. It can undermine
product quality and customer service, essential elements of any
business’s competitive advantage.
For Switzerland-based SoftwareONE, “The Software Licensing
Experts,” growth was problem number-one. In eight years, the
company has grown from 50 employees to 1400, adding as many as
15 new branch offices to its worldwide network each year. It now
serves as an elite software reseller for top publishers including
Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Symantec, McAfee, Citrix, IBM, and
VMware. Representing 4000 software vendors and providing sales
and service to many of the largest enterprises in the world,
SoftwareONE helps customers manage more than 13,000 software
licensing contracts.
“Staying competitive in the face of such rapid growth has been our
biggest challenge,” says Bojan Jancar, head of corporate IT for
SoftwareONE. “With offices in more than 60 countries, we serve our
customers on a local basis. At the same time, our value proposition
rests on offering customers a real-time, global view of their software
assets from anywhere in the world.”
To meet all of its requirements, the company needs a combination of centralized data and applications services
that operate efficiently not only through the cloud but also through various grades of local telecommunications
infrastructure.
A couple of years ago, Jancar and his colleagues had the perfect opportunity to rethink and re-engineer
SoftwareONE’s IT infrastructure. The data center architecture lagged behind the company’s rapid expansion in
terms of both storage and computing power. The WAN acceleration solution in place had reached the end of its
useful life, and was no longer being supported by the vendor. Application performance problems were becoming
all too common when, for example, the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other
applications were vying for data access on a limited 1-gigabit backbone.