Network as a Cost/Profit Center

If you would like to manage your network as a cost/profit center… You need Ipanema!

You are in charge of a large network spanning several continents and serve as the common link between several business units within your corporation. Each business unit has differing requirements. They are not equally demanding. Your network budget is decided centrally and it is only vaguely linked to the demands that business units put on the network. You would like to have a more informed dialog with heads of department and manage your department as a cost center and ideally as a profit center.

The Ipanema Solution allows just that. By using the Ipanema Solution, you can define with application managers clear and specific application performance objectives, and rank their criticality by class of users if needed. For instance, for one business unit’s email maybe a non-critical application, whereas for another it is crucial – e.g. for traders in a bank.

The Ipanema Solution with its optimization algorithms will protect critical applications in all circumstances and will produce both specific and aggregated monitoring reports. A charge back module then allows the billing of each business unit based on their network use; the “amount” of critical applications consumed and the level of service received against commonly agreed objectives.

With the Ipanema Solution network management becomes a business function!