Financial Services SolutionsArray application delivery, desktop delivery and secure access solutions allow financial services institutions offer customers a superior online banking experience, and provide financial services professionals the mobility they need maintain a competitive edge. Whether enabling differentiated service offerings, enhancing the customer experience or providing anytime, anywhere access to corporate applications for financial services workers, Array solutions for financial services provide the security, visibility and control needed to meet compliance mandates including Sarbanes-Oxley and GLBA, and are available in a range of right-sized platforms to meet the needs of any size organization. Application DeliveryWith the Internet providing an essential link to clients and partners, financial services organizations must ensure that this point of contact provides the seamless, high quality experience that customers and partners expect. Trading and customer service applications, as well as internal applications such as HR, ERP and CRM all demand the highest level of performance, availability, and security. Array application delivery solutions help financial services organizations address these requirements, providing the application optimizations needed to support business critical processes. Robust load balancing with connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, dynamic caching and adaptive compression ensure peak application availability and performance, while WebWall™ security protects against denial of service attacks, worms, viruses and application-level intrusions. In the data center, Array application delivery solutions allow financial services organizations to cost-effectively scale both internal and customer-facing applications, reducing not only the cost of application networking equipment but also the cost of server infrastructure and costs related to bandwidth, space and power. Desktop DeliveryUsing DesktopDirect, Array’s innovative remote desktop access solution, a top five US-based financial services firm has maintained business continuity through disruptions over the past three years, servicing over 30,000 worldwide employees across eight locations. The firm provides regular and occasional telecommuters with on-demand access to office computers. DesktopDirect has enabled the firm to avoid unnecessary revenue losses from disruptions — for example, during an unexpected heavy snowfall that happened to occur on a Friday, nearly 15,000 unique users logged in from home and other remote locations — nearly twice the daily capacity of 8,500, enabling the firm to transparently conduct financial transactions and provide continued research and analysis services to clients throughout the world. DesktopDirect’s unique architecture enabled the financial institution to maintain compliance with regulations and avoid any risks of data leakage outside their corporate offices. Secure AccessTo take advantage of opportunities when and where they arise – and to make informed decisions that maximize revenue – financial services workers require real-time access to business-critical information. Array secure access solutions provide anytime, anywhere access to intranets, portals, knowledge management systems, and financial services applications from any device – putting valuable and timely information in the hands of professionals to provide a business advantage. In addition to enhancing profits and productivity for the organization, Array secure access solutions offer significant benefits for corporate IT. End-to-end security and granular access control ensure regulatory compliance, while the ability to consolidate secure access for local and remote users on a single platform greatly simplifies management, improves consistency and significantly reduces the cost of securing corporate resources and applications. |