STEELHEAD SAAS OPTIMIZATION

Speed Up User Access and Accelerate the Delivery of SaaS Applications with SteelHead SaaS

Extend Riverbed’s industry leading optimization beyond the hybrid WAN. With SteelHead SaaS, you can leverage global resources no matter where the data and applications reside, access applications and data from anywhere, and reduce the cost of running your business.

SteelHead SaaS accelerates the delivery of SaaS applications by up to 33x

You can accelerate applications and manage the delivery of business-critical data and content from your SaaS provider—overcoming application latency, bandwidth constraints, and competition among applications.

SteelHead’s Universal SaaS licensing delivers the flexibility to activate optimization for the applications that are most important to your business and enables you to dynamically adjust to user needs.

SteelHead SaaS offers end-to-end optimization for Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 User Identity, Office Web Apps, and Dynamics CRM Online, Salesforce, Box, SuccessFactors, Veeva and ServiceNow.

How It Works: Accelerate SaaS Application Delivery and Provide Flexible Scalability

SteelHead SaaS is an integrated, purpose built, end-to-end scalable solution that accelerates SaaS application delivery to and from the cloud. You can start optimization for SaaS applications with a simple license activation—any physical or virtual SteelHead solution already deployed can quickly be enabled and service availability is instantly increased based on user demand. Delivered as a service, subscription model, SteelHead SaaS is easy to deploy and requires no changes to the user side or in the SaaS-provider cloud.

SteelHead’s award-winning optimization technology seamlessly integrates with the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Platform, which optimizes the routing of traffic across the public Internet, to accelerate application performance.

Multi-tiered optimization

• Provides all the capabilities of the Riverbed SteelHead solution, built on the same platform, purpose built for SaaS. Leverages data, application, and transport streamlining, as well as SaaS and cloud intelligence.
• Uniquely ensures optimization and the best end user experience with GeoIQ for Office 365 mailboxes. Ever-expanding support for more SaaS applications.

• Provides secure, end-to-end optimization across the Hybrid WAN and Internet right to the front door of the SaaS provider. Maintains security via Secure Socket Level (SSL) peering.

 Dynamic performance management

• Instantly creates the cloud-side SteelHead within the Akamai SureRoute IP network. Elastically provisions to dynamically accommodate increases in user connections.

Benefits: The Business Case for SteelHead SaaS

SteelHead SaaS optimization helps reduce growing IT complexity, ensuring maximum performance of SaaS applications no matter where users are located.

SteelHead SaaS also improves IT visibility by seamlessly integrating with SteelCentral NetProfiler for end-to-end network monitoring and reporting and SteelCentral AppResponse for end-user experience monitoring for web and SaaS applications.

Optimization for SaaS applications

• Improves performance of SaaS applications up to 33x while using up to 97% less bandwidth
• Enhances scalability with Universal SaaS licensing for all supported applications including Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 User Identity, Office Web Apps, and Dynamics CRM Online, Salesforce, Box, SuccessFactors, Veeva and ServiceNow.

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead. 

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

Read the IDC Report to learn the business value of Riverbed SteelHead

Infographic: SteelHead, the ROI Winner