Applications like Siebel, SAP, Oracle, and other mission-critical ERP and CRM applications suffer when accessed over a WAN. Whether users rely on a proprietary fat client or a web client deployment, the responsiveness of an application for someone in a remote office is often far worse than for a user at headquarters.
Deploying Steelhead appliances can improve the responsiveness for many ERP and CRM applications by two to ten-fold, and in many cases far more. This is often enough to allow a more universal rollout of key applications, rather than letting poor user acceptance stall deployments. The degree of performance improvement depends on the client being used, the application involved, the underlying protocols being used, and the basic WAN configuration.
The latest release of the Riverbed Optimization System, RiOS™ 5.0, has enhancements that further optimize web traffic, specifically for dynamic web pages. The major benefit from these enhancements is even better performance for enterprise web applications such as ERP and CRM.
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