Editorial
	Beatrice Piquer-Durand Vice President Marketing Ipanema Technologies

Use Ipanema’s 3, 30, 300 rule and maximize your productivity while reducing your costs!

Business processes are mapped into applications and workflows used by employees sitting in front of customers, in logistic centers or production facilities. Therefore excellent quality and stability of applications performance is critical for business efficiency.

Business and IT performance are tightly coupled…

Did you know that losing 5 minutes per day due to poor application performance means a 1% productivity reduction which can decrease profitability by 10%?

But this has a cost…

To deliver these business applications, enterprises spend a monthly IT budget ranging from $400 to $2,000 per employee according to their business sector...

SUCCESS STORY
	Frank Meyer Technical Project Lead, Henkel.

Henkel enables key IT initiatives with an objective-based and cost optimized WAN.

Beatrice Piquer-Durand: Please can you tell us more about Henkel?

Frank Meyer: Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Beauty Care and Adhesive Technologies.

Founded in 1876, Henkel holds global leading market positions both in the consumer and industrial businesses with well-known brands such as Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite.

Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Henkel has 47,000 employees worldwide and is one of the most internationally aligned German-based companies in the global marketplace...

Use Case
	Thierry Grenot Executive Vice President Ipanema Technologies

3, 30, 300… For only $3 per employee per month, save-up to $30 per employee per month and secure your application investment of $300!

Beatrice for Ipanews: What spending challenges does the IT department face?

TG: The main role of the IT department is to support the enterprise’s business processes and to allow each user to implement them simply and efficiently. User productivity and customer satisfaction are linked to the quality and performance of business applications. Ultimately one of the main challenges is to align IT to changing business requirements while reducing expenses.

Challenge 1: Guarantee users’ productivity - Saving a mere 5 minutes a day increases productivity by 1%, representing $50+/employee/month. However, providing optimal business application performance anytime is more challenging than ever, as IT and usage is rapidly evolving (Internet, mobility, cloud computing, etc).

Challenge 2: Increase IT efficiency – Keeping up with IT transformations in an increasingly complex IT environment isn’t easy. The number of incidents increases all the time, the service desk doesn’t have global easy-to-use information and the management team lacks time to make savvy decisions. As a result, there is no simple way to explain and justify the IT incidents to the enterprise.

Challenge 3: Save on network cost – As traffic quickly increases, it is necessary to use the available resources properly and to find cost effective solutions able to support new business applications, new usages, as well as the ever-growing Internet usage...