For insurance companies, time is money. Companies want to serve clients as quickly as possible, as this helps to ensure client satisfaction and reduces the cost of operations at the same time.

With Riverbed WAN optimization solutions, insurance companies can ensure that their employees have fast access to critical forms and documents, even if those documents are located in the central data center. A centralized document repository helps to ensure that employees are always using the most up-to-date versions without having to hunt for the right form. At the same time, Steelhead appliances can reduce WAN bandwidth utilization typically by 60 to 95%, providing the opportunity to significantly cut costs and defer upgrades.

With Riverbed, insurance companies can ensure that all their employees working anywhere in the world can effectively work on the most up-to-date documents and forms without dealing with delays of downloading the right file.

Nationwide insurance brokerage creates a faster workflow

By deploying Steelhead appliances in its remote offices, one large brokerage enabled its employees to have faster access to centralized resources. The firm was also able to immediately reduce bandwidth consumption by 80% to 95% – equal to an increase in bandwidth of 5x to 20x.

When the brokerage removed file and Exchange servers from most of their branch offices, they were able to eliminate a whole range of daily and weekly work required to back them up, apply the latest patches from Microsoft, and all the other IT administration tasks that are normally required.

Steelhead appliances also enabled a simpler and more robust backup process, and a faster recovery process in the event that a server went down.