SaaS Accelerator

Today, enterprises are running multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. As they run fewer applications on-premises, they’re rapidly adding more SaaS applications to achieve the same business results with lesser IT overhead. Organizations are also sharing more through collaboration apps and video which yield massive amounts of shared data, putting a strain on network architectures.

SaaS Accelerator Overview

And now more than ever, the modern workforce is dynamic, conducting business at the office, but also from home, and on the go with laptops in coffee shops, at customer sites, airports, and other remote locations, resulting in highly unpredictable network performance. Riverbed SaaS Accelerator is a cloud-based service, designed specifically for today’s workforce to ensure fast, consistent performance of critical SaaS applications for anyone, anywhere.

The solution maximizes the enterprise’s investment in critical SaaS apps by ensuring application performance regardless of network latency, bandwidth limitations, or application contention—all without requiring any changes to the SaaS provider’s infrastructure. Acceleration for leading SaaS applications starts with a simple, cloud-based license activation. Any physical, virtual, or client-based SteelHead product pairs with your dedicated SaaS Accelerator service cluster to deliver up to a 10x improvement in SaaS performance, reduce the operational costs of troubleshooting poorly performing apps, and enhance productivity. The SaaS Accelerator solution can be deployed in minutes and can scale to meet the needs of the largest organizations in the world.

Business Challenge

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications reduce costs by eliminating tedious management and capital expenditures while offering efficient scalability. While these benefits have driven SaaS adoption, they do not address the fundamental concerns of any application investment—the end-user experience and productivity.

SaaS applications can suffer from poor performance due to the inherent latency of operating in the cloud, remote from users, and reliance on the less-reliable public Internet. The dynamic nature of SaaS, combined with today’s mobile workforce—application servers moving, users moving—introduces complexities that further challenge application performance. IT has limited or no visibility into SaaS application performance and lacks the ability to control or enhance the end-user experience.

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Key Benefits

Here we discuss some of the most important key benefits of SaaS accelerator :

Agility

• Easy to purchase, spin up, and manage for all users and more by simply checking a box from SaaS Accelerator Manager (SAM)
• As-a-service offering—deploy in minutes, managed by Riverbed
• SAM dashboard showing connection statistics, data usage, and traffic summary

Flexibility

• Globally accelerate SaaS applications to laptops, remote desktops or entire sites
• Easily shift service to new or additional apps as needed eliminating unnecessary license fees
• Integrates with Riverbed WAN Optimization, Application Acceleration, Network Performance Management, and SD-WAN solutions
• Enable proxy chaining for interoperability with third-party offerings such as CASB providers

Speed

• Mitigate latency and maximize workforce productivity, accelerating enterprise SaaS performance on average up to 10x faster
• Avoid network congestion, reducing bandwidth up to 99%
• Dramatically improve user productivity and satisfaction under constrained bandwidth, or highly latent network conditions)

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Key Features

Now we dive into key features of SaaS Accelerator as we continue:

Multi-tiered optimization for SaaS

• Leverages multiple optimization techniques, including data, application, and transport streamlining specifically engineered for SaaS use-cases
• Uniquely ensures optimization and the best end user experience, despite the distance from the cloud

Acceleration as a service

• Delivered as-a service, subscription model
• Easy to deploy, requiring no changes to the user side or the SaaS provider environment
• Simple activation on any SteelHead, or Client Accelerator solution running minimum RiOS 9.8.1 or 6.1 Client Accelerator
• Offers flexible acceleration for leading SaaS enterprise applications

– Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Office)

– Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

– Salesforce, Box

– ServiceNow

– Veeva

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• Extends network optimization capabilities of best-of-breed Riverbed SteelHead, modernized for SaaS delivery
• Accelerates application performance regardless of the transport path (via the data center, Azure Express route or direct to the Internet), or last-mile network conditions
• Flexible certificate management support for Root or Intermediate Certificate Authority deployment options
• Maintains security via Transport Layer Security (TLS) peering, keeping the client to server relationship unchanged and maintaining a secure communication channel