TechValidate Research on Acme Systems B7500

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Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

Computer Services Industry Relies on Ricoh

What types of operational challenges did deploying Ricoh solve for your organization?

Improved the efficiency of a business process
10%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
14%
Improved overall system uptime
29%
Delivered faster performance
24%
Improved disaster recovery
19%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
38%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
48%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
57%
Met regulatory compliance standards
81%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying Acme solve for your organization?

Improved the efficiency of a business process
16%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%
Improved overall system uptime
20%
Delivered faster performance
21%
Improved disaster recovery
28%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Met regulatory compliance standards
82%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

Top Operational Challenges Acme Solves For

What types of operational challenges did deploying Acme solve for your organization?

Met regulatory compliance standards
82%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved disaster recovery
28%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

People choose Equus over all else

What were the top three purchasing drivers for buying your Acme Systems B7500?

Achieve better management economies of scale
88%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
47%
Consolidate servers
46%
Meet compliance regulations
27%
Support higher uptime SLAs
27%
Meet performance and QoS SLAs
15%
Consolidate storage
14%
Meet a compressing backup window
14%
Reduce costs
11%
Secure sensitive data
11%
Support business growth expectations
10%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

Top Priorities

What were the top three purchasing drivers for buying your Acme Systems B7500?

Meet compliance regulations
43%
Support higher uptime SLAs
42%
Consolidate storage
39%
Meet a compressing backup window
38%
Achieve better management economies of scale
36%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
24%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

Operational challenges solved by Google

What types of operational challenges did deploying Google solve for your organization?

Improved the efficiency of a business process
16%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%
Improved overall system uptime
20%
Delivered faster performance
21%
Improved disaster recovery
28%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Met regulatory compliance standards
82%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying Google solve for your organization?

Improved disaster recovery
82%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
82%
Delivered faster performance
53%
Improved the efficiency of a business process
41%
Met regulatory compliance standards
18%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
18%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
12%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
6%
Improved overall system uptime
6%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

Why did you select us?

It was installed before I arrived: 25%
It was installed for my organization with my input: 26%
It was installed for my organization without my input: 24%
I led the purchase of Acme for my organization: 25%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

By what percentage did your Acme Systems B7500 increase the productivity of your IT staff?

Greater than 75%: 3%
50% to 74%: 15%
25% to 49%: 44%
10% to 24%: 31%
Up to 10%: 7%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme Systems B7500 solve for your organization?

Improved the efficiency of a business process
18%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
13%
Improved overall system uptime
19%
Delivered faster performance
21%
Improved disaster recovery
29%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
46%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
56%
Met regulatory compliance standards
82%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

CHART

WHY DID YOU BUY?

Achieve better management economies of scale
87%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
47%
Consolidate servers
46%
Support higher uptime SLAs
29%
Meet compliance regulations
28%
Meet performance and QoS SLAs
16%
Consolidate storage
13%
Meet a compressing backup window
13%
Reduce costs
12%
Secure sensitive data
9%
Support business growth expectations
9%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme Systems B7500 solve for your organization?

Met regulatory compliance standards
82%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Improved disaster recovery
30%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
29%
Delivered faster performance
20%
Improved overall system uptime
20%
Improved the efficiency of a business process
17%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What were the top purchasing drivers for buying your Acme Systems B7500?

Achieve better management economies of scale
88%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
47%
Consolidate servers
46%
Meet compliance regulations
27%
Support higher uptime SLAs
27%
Meet performance and QoS SLAs
15%
Consolidate storage
14%
Meet a compressing backup window
14%
Reduce costs
11%
Secure sensitive data
11%
Support business growth expectations
10%

Acme Systems B7500 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme Systems B7500 solve for your organization?

Met regulatory compliance standards
82%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved disaster recovery
28%
Delivered faster performance
21%
Improved overall system uptime
20%
Improved the efficiency of a business process
16%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%

Acme Systems B7500 Significantly Reduces CAPEX

By what percentage, did your Acme Systems B7500 reduce your Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) of your IT infrastructure?

Greater than 75%: 6%
50% to 74%: 23%
25% to 49%: 39%
10% to 24%: 26%
Less than 10%: 6%

Acme Rated Highly Compared to the Competition

Rate the following Acme capabilitites in terms of how differentiated they are compared to the competition.

Extremely differentiated Highly differentiated Differentiated Not differentiated

Performance
Ease of use
Reliability
Scalability

Top Operational Challenges Solved by Acme

What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme Systems B7500 solve for your organization?

Met infrastructure scalability requirements
87%
Improved disaster recovery
82%
Delivered faster performance
39%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
19%
Improved the efficiency of a business process
18%
Met regulatory compliance standards
17%
Improved overall system uptime
17%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
14%
Other
0%

Acme Chosen Over the Competition

What vendors did you evaluate before choosing Acme Systems?

HP
87%
Dell
83%
Cisco
37%
Oracle
34%
Microsoft
33%
IBM
33%

ROI with Acme

What was the payback period for your investment in your Acme Systems B7500?

0 months: 8%
3 months: 19%
6 months: 47%
9 months: 23%
12 months: 3%

What Your Peers Use with Acme

Select which applications are used in conjunction with your Acme Systems B7500.

Oracle Applications
63%
SAP
57%
Oracle Databases
51%
IBM DB2 Databases
48%
eCommerce application
29%
Microsoft Exchange
21%
Microsoft SQL Server Databases
20%
Microsoft SharePoint
18%

Operational Challenges Solved by Acme

What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme Systems B7500 solve for your organization?

Met regulatory compliance standards
82%
Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
54%
Improved data protection of critical corporate information
48%
Met infrastructure scalability requirements
30%
Improved disaster recovery
28%
Delivered faster performance
21%
Improved overall system uptime
20%
Improved the efficiency of a business process
16%
Reduced IT infrastructure costs
15%

CAPEX Savings with Acme

By what percentage, did your Acme Systems B7500 reduce your Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) of your IT infrastructure?

Greater than 75%: 7%
50% to 74%: 20%
25% to 49%: 46%
10% to 24%: 22%
Less than 10%: 5%

Top Purchasing Drivers for Acme

What were the top three purchasing drivers for buying your Acme Systems B7500?

Achieve better management economies of scale
88%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
47%
Consolidate servers
46%
Support higher uptime SLAs
27%
Meet compliance regulations
27%
Meet performance and QoS SLAs
15%
Meet a compressing backup window
14%
Consolidate storage
14%
Secure sensitive data
11%
Reduce costs
11%
Support business growth expectations
10%

Acme’s Competitive Differentiation

Rate the following Acme capabilitites in terms of how differentiated they are compared to the competition.

Extremely differentiated Highly differentiated Differentiated Not differentiated

Performance
Ease of use
Reliability
Scalability

Winning Against the Competition

What vendors did you evaluate before choosing Acme Systems? Please check all that apply.

IBM
69%
Cisco
62%
Oracle
58%
Dell
58%
Microsoft
35%
HP
29%

Increased IT Productivity with Acme

By what percentage, did your Acme Systems B7500 increase the productivity of your IT staff?

Greater than 75%: 3%
50% to 74%: 19%
25% to 49%: 46%
10% to 24%: 26%
Less than 10%: 6%



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