EMA Assessing ROI for Mobile Acceleration Clients

WAN optimization technology has been an important part of networking for more than ten years, enabling productivity gains and cost savings of magnitudes sufficient to drive it to mainstream status for distributed, network-enabled organizations of all sizes. One important manifestation of this technology is mobile client software that can be installed on individual users’ workstations, laptops or tablets, so they can enjoy the benefits of LAN-like network performance wherever they may be working. This paper examines the business case for deploying mobile WAN optimization client software and builds an ROI model based on the experiences of three organizations.