Slow… SharePoint? Stingray Aptimizer to the Rescue!

Jessica Safiari, Riverbed PR specialist, recently had a creative bug spurred by a triple shot of the recent SharePoint Conference, our Stingray announcement, and possibly from watching too many reruns of Superman films. Either way, enjoy the below short story.   

At the end of the annual Microsoft SharePoint conference, bloggers and journalists came away with the idea of ‘transition’ for the Web-based application. Regardless of the SharePoint changes to come, organizations need to accelerate the application now.

Picture this… It’s a dark, lonely night at the office, and Steve Hairpoint is working late to prepare for the biggest sales meeting of his career. “One more piece of competitive analysis data and I’m calling it a night,” he thought as he logged onto SharePoint. His keystrokes echo in the silent building. He waits for the application to open. The clock ticks slowly. One minute… Two minutes… And then finally, it loads. Tired and frustrated, Steve continues his work. After another half-hour of painfully slow searches for the information he needs, Steve called it quits.

We’ve all been there: working hard on a project and the Web-based application is not cooperating.  When people are forced to wait, the loss of time can be detrimental to potential business opportunities. And in this challenging economy, every opportunity could make or break the organization’s bottom line. Additionally, it is frustrating and impacts user behavior. We invest in these awesome Web-based applications; and sometimes they choke like someone is asking their secret crush on a first date, becoming almost unusable and in a sense reducing employee productivity. 

Luckily, Web-based applications, like SharePoint, now have a superhero to rescue them from the twin perils of heavy weight inefficient content and network limitations like latency. The name is Riverbed Stingray Aptimizer for SharePoint. If Stingray Aptimizer had its own television series, the intro would be:

Stingray Aptimizer laughs in the face of latency as he sits on the web server, boldly accelerating applications and websites, freeing all Web-based applications, like SharePoint from lag time. With Stingray Aptimizer, SharePoint and intranet response times are lightning fast. How can Stingray Aptimizer accomplish such a great feat? The amazing powers of Stingray Aptimizer reduces page load times, reducing bandwidth by instantly transforming the Website content (images, scripts, style sheets, etc.) to create fewer long distance round trips, giving Web-based applications and intranets the defense they need against the evil forces of latency. Our superhero is committed to freeing organizations everywhere of application delays, so they can take on the world and fearlessly pursue business opportunities!