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Expanding Generation Y Workforce Raises the Bar for Application and Network PerformanceInfoVista, the leading provider of network performance orchestration solutions for a better connected and collaborative world, today released the results of a new benchmark report: Meeting the Network Demands of Changing Generations. The report was jointly conducted with BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications services and solutions, and highlights the challenges IT departments face in managing the ever-increasing expectations of a new generation of workers. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160523005928/en/ Infographic: Is Your Network Future-Ready? (Graphic: Business Wire). The survey of nearly 300 senior information and communications technology (ICT) managers and decision makers across public and private enterprises shows that today's workforce is unsatisfied with network performance overall. Ninety percent of respondents have received complaints related to application performance from a workforce increasingly dominated by Generation Y1. Generation Y represent more than one in three workers in the United States. This new generation's affinity with the digital world, high expectations of technology and usage of network-hungry business applications has given way to a hyper-connected, collaborative and communicative workplace. As a result, businesses are under greater pressure to maintain ever-higher standards of application and network performance. Ensuring network and application performance expectations often fall to the responsibility of the ICT department. Of those surveyed, 94 percent agreed that the corporate network has become more critical. Yet, only around half of organizations have insight into which applications could have a negative impact on the performance of the corporate network (51 percent) or have IT governance in place for application performance (57 percent). The report establishes a clear need for a governance approach to guarantee application performance and manage the user experience. In addition to implementing governance and tools to measure and predict performance (64 percent), many survey respondents also highlighted hybrid wide-area network (WAN) deployments (47 percent) and moving more applications to the cloud while outsourcing SLAs (45 percent) as the best ways to make the most of the corporate netwok, and simultaneously keep costs low. Supporting Quotes:
Other key findings of the report include:
1Generation Y are the demographic cohort following Generation X ranging in birth years from circa 1980 to 2000. Resources
About InfoVista InfoVista is the leading provider of cost-effective network performance orchestration solutions for a better connected and collaborative world. Our award-winning solutions empower communications service providers and large enterprises to ensure a high-quality user experience by achieving optimal network performance and guaranteeing business-critical application performance. InfoVista's expertise and innovations provide a new level of actionable network, application and customer intelligence, visibility and control across all services, all technologies, and all domains of both the fixed and mobile networks. Using our solutions, eighty percent of the world's largest service providers and leading global enterprises deliver high-performing and differentiated services, plan and optimize networks to match application and service demands, and streamline network operations while keeping total cost of ownership as low as possible. For more information, please visit www.infovista.com.
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