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By Rick Froehlich, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, EarthLink
In recent years, business applications like Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce have become a critical part of employees’ daily activities. For example, there are nearly 50 million active Office 365 monthly business users. Imagine the productivity dip if even a fraction of those users experienced lag time when trying to access their email or SharePoint resources?
Employees have come to rely on applications like Office 365, Salesforce and many others to get their job done. Any degradation in how those applications perform could result in diminished employee productivity, or worse, a hit to an organization’s bottom line.
This puts a lot of pressure on network managers industry-wide to guarantee network connectivity. Faced with a flood of new business applications that require constant adjusting and prioritization over the network, this is no easy feat. In the retail industry alone, 78 percent of organizations are unable to guarantee application performance. In addition to employee productivity issues, unreliable application performance can trickle down to the customer – in one in three cases, retail customers have abandoned a purchase due to application performance issues.
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