Imagine Your Network

While decreasing design time, increasing profitability and improving efficiencies along the entire opportunity-to-order cycle.

IP networks are bigger, faster and more complex than ever due to increases in both traffic and sophisticated high-bandwidth applications. According to Forrester Research, keeping up with these demands requires that enterprise networks be refreshed more often - every two to three years. Four major factors making it more important than ever for enterprises, and the vendors who support their networks, to have accurate and current network blueprints are:

• Security and business continuity
• Network-centric application initiatives such as collaboration tools and Web 2.0 Data center modernization
• Mobility and an increasingly distributed workforce

To be responsive to these customer-driven needs, demands on the talents of network design professionals are more pressing than at any time in history. Leading IP networking companies, from network equipment vendors to service providers to systems integrators, must find ways to use these valuable resources more efficiently while reducing costly errors. 

Although there are hundreds of automated software tools to help with provisioning and implementing networks once the contract is signed, until now, there has been no single, integrated solution to address the design and proposal generation phase of the enterprise network lifecycle.

Fortunately, Netformx provides a range of design tools and services that serve as building block to fill this crucial gap in productivity tools. 

 

The Challenges

Here are just a few of the major challenges faced by network design professionals and how Netformx Design Solutions address each.

Challenge	Netformx Solution	Benefit
Accelerate revenue by shortening the sales cycle	SalesXpert™ Netformx DesignXpert®	Reduce design and sales cycle by as much as 50%
Reduce cost of rolling out new products or features	Netformx KnowledgeBase™	Centralized product and rules immediately available for designs; minimizes training and support
Reduce costly rework, design rejection rates and provisioning errors	Netformx DesignXpert® Netformx KnowledgeBase™	99+% design accuracy because designs are automatically validated against extensive rules-driven KnowledgeBase
Discover accurate information about current network	Netformx Discovery™	Increase revenue opportunity as much as 20% by validating accuracy of customer data and identifying “at risk” equipment in need of replacement
Create and manage design enhancements of complex MPLS networks	MPLS Designer™	Intelligent Advisor guides all aspects of defining a complete MPLS solution; Standardizes the delivery of services to match service definitions
Create and manage the addition of Managed Network Services to designs	Managed Services Designer™	Intelligent Advisor guides all aspects of pricing and proposing MNS enforcing rules and constraints
Collaborate, manage and approve intra- and inter-organizational design projects	DesignCentral™	A web-enabled, integrated collaboration platform that uses a common data store to enable team productivity, document management, encourage use of corporate best practices, shorten sales cycles and improve overall quality of customer deliverables

 

Only Netformx provides a complete suite of solutions to meet the many challenges faced by today’s network design professionals in network service providers, systems integrators, and equipment manufacturers.

Click Here to see how leading design professionals around the world are using Netformx Solutions to increase sales, improve productivity, promote collaboration and minimize errors throughout the entire opportunity-to-proposal cycle.