"We reduced our annual recurring costs by $90,000 with the Klir platform. We were able to use the data to disprove assumptions, show where we needed to improve and to reduce monthly recurring costs."

- Pete Ruff, Manager of Global Networks for Alpharma

Alpharma Inc. is a $1.4 billion global generic pharmaceutical company with a presence in more than 30 countries. In conjunction with a corporate initiative to improve processes, comply with industry regulations and reduce costs, the Alpharma global network team launched a project to increase visibility and process consistency around their global network infrastructure and validate their current bandwidth investment was well aligned with actual business usage.

CHALLENGE
Despite deploying other network management tools, the team still had limited visibility outside of the corporate datacenter and was spending too much time managing the tools that manage the network. IT encountered the following challenges:

• Poor network intelligence outside the corporate datacenter
• Questionable reliability of the existing utilization data collected through various tools
• Time-intensive, manual process to aggregate data for analysis

SOLUTION
Alpharma implemented Klir Analytics to help them:

• Gain real-time visibility into performance and utilization of mission-critical IT assets
• Correlate performance and utilization data with IT spend to assess the return on infrastructure investments
• Analyze network traffic to determine what type of activity is consuming network resources
• Identify unknown applications running on the network
• Link performance bottlenecks with specific applications, locations and users

RESULTS

• Identified and upgraded eight WAN links that were previously assumed to be healthy
• Increased global infrastructure visibility for IT and the business
• Eliminated redundant monitoring platform and software maintenance fees
• Cut ISP costs by $90,000 annually
• Freed up 0.5 FTE