{"id":60,"date":"2017-01-31T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portfolionew.wpengine.com\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T02:18:54","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portfoliocommunications.com\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/portfoliocommunications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Portfolio-Communications-Case-Study-Header-Image.jpg&#8221; parallax=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;150px||220px|&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; 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The customer wanted nothing less than a 25% reduction to overall IT costs. Portfolio was also asked to help redesign their WAN from a single MPLS provider to an SD WAN consisting of multiple vendors to increase business uptime for their enterprise. Further Portfolio encountered outdated premise-based technologies, an aging WAN infrastructure, and a limited number of IT staff that could contribute to a solution.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Solution&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.11&#8243; body_font=&#8221;||||&#8221; body_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_font=&#8221;||||&#8221; tab_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; body_line_height_tablet=&#8221;2em&#8221; body_line_height_phone=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_line_height_tablet=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_line_height_phone=&#8221;2em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Portfolio engaged multiple vendors to leverage competitive market rates to secure reduced rates for the customers\u2019 WAN, Colo, and voice environments. To facilitate enhanced business uptime, two diverse providers for SD WAN were selected. Portfolio provided an additional vendor resource to physically install and turn up the new SD WAN solution at all sites across the United States which shifted the workload from the small IT staff to the outside vendor which enabled faster deployment, faster realization of savings, and the benefit of a network with better business continuity. Portfolio professionally project managed the entire solution.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Outcome&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.11&#8243; body_font=&#8221;||||&#8221; body_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_font=&#8221;||||&#8221; tab_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; body_line_height_tablet=&#8221;2em&#8221; body_line_height_phone=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_line_height_tablet=&#8221;2em&#8221; tab_line_height_phone=&#8221;2em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced the cost of all Hosting\/Colo, Voice and Data services by an average of 45%<\/li>\n<li>Increased the overall bandwidth at every location by an average of 30x<\/li>\n<li>Simplified vendor environment from 5 separate relationships to one local team that interacts with all vendors on their behalf<\/li>\n<li>Consolidated all vendor contracts to the same timeline to simplify contract management<\/li>\n<li>By leveraging outside vendor, project was completed in half the time vs using their internal IT team<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio negotiated vendor MSAs and SLAs with meaningful compensable, consequences for non-performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][\/et_pb_tabs][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; 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