IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

These organizations reported that SteelHead provided significant value by cost effectively improving network and application performance, which bolsters their business operations and results.

IDC calculates that these organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.