
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
PERNOD RICARD
Delivering a Premium Application Experience for Global Users with Pulse Secure Virtual Traffic Manager
"Today we have a level of agility that we didn’t have prior to Pulse Secure. Before Pulse Secure applications were difficult to publish and complex for users. Now, with the Pulse Secure Virtual Traffic Manager, it’s like having a Swiss Army knife in front of applications with automated application delivery and centralized management that simplifies service deployment and secures applications."
Why was Pulse Secure chosen?
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Company
Pernod Ricard
Industry
Retail
Challenges
Accelerate the deployment of secure applications and ensure high availability with an application delivery solution that is easily deployed and managed
Solutions
- Pulse Secure Virtual Traffic Manager with Web Accelerator
- Runs on common off the shelf
- TrafficScript customization language servers based on Intel’s x86 architectures and Microsoft Azure
Results
- Reduced deployment time for new applications down to minutes, freeing up valuable IT resources
- Cut load time for applications by more than 50 percent, from 40 seconds to less than 15 seconds
- Reduced downtime from 1-2 times per week to zero, for increased uptime and application availability, and greater user satisfaction
Introduction
Pernod Ricard is the story of a family business that grew into a global leader in the wine and spirits industry with more than 18,000 employees worldwide. The Group boasts a large portfolio of premium brands, including Absolut, Kahlua, and Jameson. A commitment to ongoing innovation, which allows the Group to quickly adapt to changes in trends, new consumer expectations, and new consumption moments, relies on a foundation of digital transformation to better understand and directly interact with consumers and put forward customized offers, namely through e-commerce opportunities.
Challenge
As an innovator in a fast-paced and highly competitive industry, Pernod Ricard recognizes that agility is key to maintaining a leadership position. The ability to deploy applications, maintain performance, and ensure availability to users is vital for the organization. Unfortunately, as the organization’s needs grew, the expanding complexity of its environment impacted Pernod Ricard’s ability to deploy applications quickly and securely.
“New applications were becoming difficult to publish, and we were experiencing downtime several times each week because intranet servers had to be rebooted,” explains Maxime Granatini, Group Network and Security Manager at Pernod Ricard. “This increasing instability was impacting users, and creating a significant burden on IT staff. We needed a load balancing and Web acceleration solution that was easy to deploy and manage on an ongoing basis and also has the ability to perform advanced traffic management.”