With professional services organizations, it's very easy to equate time and money. These organizations are most often contracted by other companies to complete specific projects in a given timeframe or on an hourly basis. Professional services organizations depend on fast, frequent communication of data which is usually developed in an extremely collaborative manner. The best professional services organizations can work without borders: no matter where the client is, the organization can put their best, most appropriate talent to work on the project – without putting them on a plane.

Serve the client better

Using Riverbed's WDS solutions, professional services organizations can ensure timely communication of important data over the WAN. This might be as simple as accelerating the delivery of an email or a PowerPoint file; or as complex as ensuring there are no version control issues on detailed contracts, graphic design files, and large excel financial models. When employees can collaborate faster and more easily across the WAN, clients get the benefit of the most appropriate specialists being able work on the project, no matter where they are located in the world.

Eliminate non-billable hours

Time that employees spend waiting for files is time that they cannot spend working on a project. When simple tasks such as sending an email with an attachment or looking for a file take minutes or tens of minutes instead of seconds for each employee, the organization is suffering a tremendous loss in productivity that could instead be spent on the client's project.

Riverbed's WDS solutions can help accelerate the performance of key enterprise applications by five to 50 times, and sometimes up to 100 times. By doing so, applications such as file sharing, email, document management, time and billing applications no longer become bottlenecks that take away from time employees spend with the client and its project.

Reduce user frustration

Users often get frustrated with the responsiveness of applications they depend on. When that happens they often use work-arounds (like saving files locally rather than using the document management system) or they just don't adopt the corporate standard applications, which hurts the overall productivity of the firm. With Riverbed's WDS solutions, improved application performance has multiple positive side-effects, including happier employees.