ELARABY
ELARABY enhances employee user experience and data optimization with Riverbed in a cloud-based SaaS world
Challenges
- Reduce bandwidth to support move to SaaS applications
- Improve performance of Microsoft 365 for 6,000 employees
Benefits
- Underpins a connected, data-led regional business
- Delivers a faster, more responsive user experience on Microsoft 365
- Optimizes data transfer by 60%, on average, 900GB less data per day
- Enables a 50% increase in data transfer between sites with no increase in cost
Overview
Elaraby Group is a leader in developing and manufacturing consumer electronics and home appliances in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa and the company’s products are widely accepted in more than 60 countries. The Elaraby business has more than 40,000 employees, 16 commercial and industrial enterprises, over 3,000 sales partners, 17 trade stores across Egypt and approximately 600 after-sales service centers.
Elaraby is a household name in Egypt. It has retail outlets throughout the country and is a major employer. The group manufactures home electronics under its own brand and sells a number of market-leading, global brands in its stores.
Solution
- Riverbed® SteelHead SaaS to accelerate Microsoft 365
- Riverbed® Steelhead Cloud to speed migration and access to workloads on Microsoft Azure
- Riverbed® SteelHead™ to optimize and accelerate traffic and increase productivity
“We wanted a solution that could compress data before sending it between sites. We could see immediately how Riverbed’s technology could address latency.”
Medhat Elaraby, Vice President
Elaraby Group
“Riverbed optimizes and compresses the SaaS data perfectly. We see it accelerating the data between Microsoft 365 and the end-user.”
Medhat ElAraby, Vice President
Elaraby Group
