Where would we be today without online applications readily available at our fingertips? Better yet, where would organizations be without them strewn throughout the entire business landscape? Whether for personal or professional use, these online applications have become so engrained in our everyday workflows—from HR to project management apps to financials—that business operations would surely suffer if they were to malfunction.
Over the past few years, an application explosion has taken place. With the benefits they bring to businesses, this accelerated adoption was to be expected. Accessible from anywhere, applications increase collaboration and communication through file sharing, all-in-one tools, and many more crucial functions. According to Business Insider, 80% of data goes to only 11 cloud services with the top four being Box, Dropbox, YouTube, and Office 365.
When Performance Peters Out
While online applications bring several benefits to enterprises and other organizations, they can be for naught when an application is slow to respond or crashes completely. When applications fail to meet desired performance levels, end-users can be quick to blame the application or the device they are using. However, decreased application performance can be caused by a myriad of other issues such as network misconfiguration, application misconfiguration, or network congestion, among other explanations.
When application performance declines, it directly affects employee performance and the ability for individuals to complete their duties. Declined application performance can realistically end up costing businesses real dollars in terms of lost potential revenue. A survey conducted by Exinda found that 40% of respondents said a slowdown in performance had a direct financial impact on the business, while 80% said poor performance hurt overall productivity.
How to Combat Poor Business Application Performance
To improve application performance, businesses must have complete visibility across everything—the network, the application itself, and at the user level—and control. With that visibility component, network managers can proactively troubleshoot application problems without disrupting the end-user experience. If there is visibility but no troubleshooting capabilities or application control, businesses can only watch and not fix issues as they occur, which can cause end-user frustration and impact business performance. Application monitoring is vital to ensure performance does not decline.
Having a solution that can effectively address these issues will boost the performance of your online business applications. Exinda realizes the importance of applications and the integral part they play in business environments. With that in mind, Exinda has built solutions that provide insight into the performance and health of applications, along with the opportunity to optimize them to drive your bottom line and keep operations rolling at a desired pace.
Exinda provides many solutions, such as QX Boosts, that focus on improving the essential functions of business applications. Marry network with application data and optimize traffic shaping tools to implement controls. Businesses can also benefit from the recommendations put forth by these solutions as to how to address performance issues. ACSI is an Exinda reseller partner and experienced in implementing their solutions into various vertical markets including K-12, post secondary education, government, and energy customers.
