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Riverbed Helps Aura Light Employees Be More Productive by Accelerating the Delivery of Mission Critical Apps Including ERP and CRM
[August 19, 2014]

Riverbed Helps Aura Light Employees Be More Productive by Accelerating the Delivery of Mission Critical Apps Including ERP and CRM


SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)--

Riverbed (News - Alert) Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application performance infrastructure, today announced that Aura Light, a Swedish lighting manufacturer, is using Riverbed® SteelHead™, the #1 WAN optimization solution, to further its centralized application strategy by accelerating key enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) for 250 employees throughout Europe. Before deploying SteelHead, these applications ran slowly, getting in the way of more efficient work.

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Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, sustainable lighting company Aura Light has 250 employees at a manufacturing facility in Sweden and subsidiaries and local sales offices in many European countries. To improve IT manageability, Aura Light centralized all of its applications to an outsourced data center several years ago. Centralization, however, dramatically slowed the performance of certain applications to the point that they were nearly unusable at some remote sites.

"I wanted to look at the root of the problem and fix that," said Peter Lindgren, who took on the role of IT manager at Aura Light after the centralization project was completed. "One option was to add more systems to the Citrix farm but I wanted to get away from that and just focus on the issue that was affecting the users. And I wanted to create a stage that would allow us to implement new systems, whatever they are, and have them work well right away."

Lindgren turned to Riverbed with support from Curitiba, a Riverbed channel partner in Sweden, to configure and install six SteelHead appliances at remote sites and seven in the data center. Aura Light also purchased 50 SteelHead Mobile software licenses to give its sales teams the same high level of application performance that office workers experience.

Users in remote locations now access mission-critical and everyday applications in about half the time. The change means less frustration and higher prouctivity for everyone. Moreover, Aura Light achieved these benefits at a low cost by renegotiating the company's network bandwidth contract for 35% less. "Using Riverbed resulted in happier users and higher performance, and we were able to cover a large portion of the cost by reducing what we pay the WAN supplier," said Lindgren.



The SteelHead solution has eliminated employees' concerns with centralized software, allowing Aura Light to take advantage of enterprise applications such as SuperOffice CRM. It also provides Aura Light with a foundation for the future. Previously, Lindgren felt his technology choices were constrained by poor application performance over the WAN. "Now I have the freedom to implement new solutions for the business, such as a new ERP system, knowing the speed will be fine." Lindgren added, "We had been saying to employees, 'Things will get better,' but they never did, until we put in SteelHead."

Riverbed SteelHead and the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™


Riverbed SteelHead is the industry's #1 WAN optimization solution that helps IT ensure optimal service levels for applications among data centers, branch locations, cloud networks, and end users. SteelHead, further, allows IT to prioritize delivery of mission-critical applications over the best available network with customized per-application service level agreements (SLAs). SteelHead pioneered WAN optimization in 2004 with unique innovations for application, transport, and data streamlining across the WAN and Internet to deliver the best end-user experience regardless of location while dramatically reducing network bandwidth costs. With SteelHead, enterprise and SaaS (News - Alert) applications can be delivered up to 33x faster while using 97% less bandwidth.

Riverbed SteelHead is part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, the most complete platform to enable organizations to embrace location-independent computing, so that business objectives - not technical constraints - drive how applications and data are delivered.

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About Riverbed

Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for Location-Independent Computing. Location-Independent Computing turns location and distance into a competitive advantage by allowing IT to have the flexibility to host applications and data in the most optimal locations while ensuring applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues are detected and fixed before end users notice. Riverbed's 25,000+ customers include 97% of both the Fortune 100 and the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.

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