The Total Economic Impact of Juniper Apstra

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0:05 hello

0:06 my name is steve formlo and i'm a

0:07 consultant on the forester tei team

0:10 juniper commissioned forester to do a

0:12 total economic impact study of their

0:15 abstract intent based networking

0:16 solution

0:17 and we completed the study in may 2022

0:21 to accomplish this goal

0:23 we employed the forester total economic

0:26 impact methodology

0:28 forester research has shown that over 90

0:30 of iit decision makers find value in a

0:33 business case

0:34 so the forester ti model goes beyond

0:37 just tco or roi models common in the

0:40 industry we add risk and flexibility

0:42 into our models to create a more

0:44 comprehensive view of an iit business

0:47 case

0:48 ti is a methodology that we use at

0:50 forester to articulate and justify the

0:52 value of a technology investment

0:55 total economic impact consists of four

0:57 components

0:58 benefits

1:00 cost

1:00 flexibility and risk

1:03 now flexibility

1:05 here at forester we define it as what

1:07 helps to incorporate the strategic value

1:09 of future investments enabled by the

1:11 original investment

1:13 big picture the juniper abstract study

1:16 showed the following results

1:18 in our tei analysis forester identified

1:21 a three-year present value return on

1:22 investment of 320

1:25 benefit of nine hundred and twenty five

1:27 thousand dollars as well as a net

1:28 present value of seven hundred and

1:30 twenty five thousand dollars over three

1:32 years

1:33 the analysis also showed payback period

1:35 of just under six months

1:37 one of the interviews for this study

1:39 praised the amount of time and cost

1:41 savings associated with day zero and day

1:44 one task forester interviewed decision

1:46 makers from four customers in very

1:48 diverse industries

1:50 these companies range from continental

1:52 companies with two major data centers

1:55 two global companies with as many as 13

1:57 major data centers scattered across the

1:59 globe across the board we heard about

2:02 the following challenges when it came to

2:04 managing data center networks before

2:06 deploying abstract there were lots of

2:08 inconsistencies in the way various

2:10 devices were configured within data

2:12 center networks many were using very

2:15 code intensive networking solutions

2:17 which needed very specialized and

2:19 expensive experts to operate these

2:21 interviewees also told forrester that it

2:23 was hard and expensive to deploy devices

2:26 from multiple vendors within their data

2:28 centers these challenges made it slower

2:30 and more expensive to stand up or scale

2:33 data centers resulting in a slow speed

2:35 to market for new initiatives

2:37 using the forester ti methodology we did

2:40 an analysis of the benefits a composite

2:42 organization can realize from deploying

2:45 juniper abstract the study found that

2:47 the composite organization realized cost

2:50 savings in four categories

2:52 day zero design and planning

2:54 day one deployment

2:56 day two plus data center operations and

2:59 two replacement

3:00 these benefits are partly explained by

3:03 this sentiment from one of the

3:05 interviewed decision makers he said

3:07 it took considerable time to provision a

3:09 network before abstract came along

3:11 because each switch and build was

3:13 configured separately

3:15 we tried to do templating as best as we

3:17 could but there was a lot of

3:19 configuration drifting and other kinds

3:21 of stuff going on as well

3:23 these were just the quantified benefits

3:25 forrester heard from interviewers for

3:27 this study these interviewees also

3:29 talked about other benefits that they

3:31 didn't quantify they said deploying

3:34 juniper astra helped the organization

3:36 scale data center networks easier and

3:38 faster made it easier to use multiple

3:41 vendor devices within the networks and

3:43 not be restricted by individual vendor

3:45 requirements

3:46 easily manage device operating systems

3:49 and upgrades among other benefits this

3:52 forester total economic impact study

3:54 showed that by deploying juniper

3:55 abstract a composite organization could

3:58 witness a 320

4:00 roi and a net present value of 725 000

4:04 over three years to learn more about the

4:06 findings of this study please read the

4:08 entire study on juniper's website it

4:11 contains details about the forester ti

4:13 methodology and how it could be applied

4:15 to any organization's individual

4:17 scenario

4:18 thank you