Wandera

Results

Moving to Vertica enabled Wandera to replace a legacy system, improve performance, reliability, and scalability of its mobile protection products while reducing costs and increasing productivity. Key benefits of the deployment include:

• Cost Savings. With the deployment of Vertica, Wandera was able to avoid hiring additional IT staff that would be needed to support the legacy system. Additional savings were achieved with Vertica’s lower costs for data storage and elimination of hardware.
• Improved IT productivity. Wandera can support the Vertica platform with minimal resources freeing-up as much as 30 percent of IT time for more strategic activities.
• Increased user productivity. Moving from Redshift to Vertica to manage its data, the staff accomplishes more, in less time using Vertica. Additionally, the improved processing speed and reliability of Vertica ensured that real-time access to data is consistently delivered.
• Improved technology management. Eliminating Redshift enabled the company to save almost $400,000 of direct expenses while delivering a more reliable system.

Vertica analyzes and monitors data usage and has multi-level security protections, provides real-time information, and is scalable to support Wandera’s annual growth.

Key cost areas

Key cost areas for the project included software licenses, hardware, personnel time to deploy and support the application, and employee training time.

Lessons Learned

With Wandera’s choice to leverage the cloud for data management and storage, it avoided investing in hardware and annual maintenance costs required by the previous platform and increased productivity and agility. Wandera did opine that if they were to redo the deployment, they would focus on a tightly defined scope, rather than the broad offerings, to avoid distractions. Using Vertica, Wandera can deploy big-data management to its customers quickly and cost-effectively. In turn, its customers will benefit from a lower TCO and the ability to access information rapidly and improve company performance.

Calculating ROI

Nucleus quantified the initial and ongoing costs of software, hardware, personnel, and training to calculate the bank’s total investment in Vertica. Direct benefits quantified included the elimination of legacy software license costs, and the avoidance of additional IT hires. Nucleus conservatively estimated the indirect benefits of productivity of IT staff and managers associated with moving to a solution that enabled them to access data more quickly, deliver secure mobile access, and improve usability. Nucleus expects that this productivity number will continue to improve over time as users become more comfortable with the solution.