Network Performance Management Solution for
Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical
Summary of information on this page:
NetScout's Sniffer and NetScout Solutions meets the many formidable challenges faced by IT network managers in the life sciences industry today. With a single comprehensive system you can:
- Assure timely delivery of applications across distributed networks
- Troubleshoot network problems in real-time
- Manage and control the cost of network operations
Life Sciences Industry Today
The life sciences industry, which is made up of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies is a vibrant industry which is expected to maintain strong growth. While the U.S. market continues to set the pace, Europe and Japan are also major players and the Asia-Pacific and Latin America markets should grow significantly in the next 5 to 10 years. Life science companies are frequently large, highly distributed, Fortune Global 500 companies with many sub-operating companies and numerous partnerships/affiliations.
Business and Network Challenges in Life Sciences
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are under intense pressure to increase revenue and accelerate time to market while simultaneously maintaining product quality and reducing production and distribution expenses. As a result, these companies depend heavily on their networks to manage a multitude of business services, including:
- Maintaining high accessibility/availability to document management/records management, regulatory compliance and product life cycle management systems in order to facilitate proper documentation for streamlining approval processes.
- Improving productivity with high performance and availability of business and research-based applications, such as CRM (SAP, Siebel, C3i, Cegedim, etc.), clinical trials management and electronic data capture, to reduce the time from inception to general availability of lifesaving therapies.
- Improving business continuity and collaboration with internal and external partners, and establishing the capability to extract business intelligence from IT operations.
The ability to share information across a variety of research facilities, data centers, clinical trial locations, participating doctor's offices and manufacturing facilities is essential to effective operations.
NetScout Solutions Meet the Needs of Life Sciences IT Staff
NetScout's Sniffer and NetScout Solutions provide a cost-effective approach for managing the performance of mission-critical applications throughout a geographically distributed network. The NetScout Solution delivers comprehensive real-time network monitoring, application profiling, network troubleshooting, bandwidth management, and historical reporting capabilities. Life sciences organizations frequently deploy distributed network monitoring devices in their headquarters and data centers on the circuits that communicate with globally dispersed regional offices, manufacturing plants and research facilities.
At particularly critical points in the network, those where high concentrations of networked conversations occur such as application server farms, or where highly sensitive transactions terminate – for example, manufacturing locations where degradations can impact hourly production costs into the millions – it is important to have a copy of all the traffic available. NetScout's continuous packet capture appliances provide an effective option for retrospective network troubleshooting and forensic analysis.
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| Complex applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, SAP or Citrix, can be difficult to monitor because of the way they traverse the network, how they are architected or the way they are deployed. Regardless of the complexity, NetScout with its CDM port technology can monitor and analyze these, as well as custom, web-based, multimedia and well-known applications. |
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Enabling Products
To find out more information about NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer products click on the appropriate category links below:
- Network Analysis and Reporting – packet/flow-based analysis software for comprehensive network visibility
- Advanced Intelligence – early detection and in-depth analysis of complex or specialized application services
- Continuous Packet Capture – long-term packet capture for real-time and retrospective network troubleshooting
- Distributed Network Monitoring – robust, versatile monitoring devices for LAN and WAN environments
- NetFlow Collection – dedicated high-density NetFlow and IP SLA collection
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