How Lumen Solutions Can Boost Your Application Performance

Learn how Lumen can help you deliver faster, more reliable and more secure applications to your customers and employees.

As an information technology (IT) leader, you understand the importance of having high-performing applications that meet—and succeed—the needs of your customers and employees. Whether you are running eCommerce, cloud or enterprise applications, you need them to be fast, reliable and secure. If you’re a growing business, scalability, adaptability and cost-effectiveness are equally important. But where do you start?

As a global leader in network, edge cloud, security, and communication and collaboration solutions, Lumen can help you optimize your application performance. The bottom line: You’ll be empowered to transform your application delivery and improve your business outcomes.

What Application Performance Means for Your Business

Application performance is not just a technical issue. It is a business issue. Creating tomorrow’s digital ecosystem of on-demand and real-time applications is key to enhancing overall application performance and creating meaningful customer experiences and business resiliency.

IDC conducted research that explores the value and benefits for organizations using Lumen® Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and Wavelength Solutions to securely provide high-bandwidth internet connections to meet complex business needs. Utilizing Lumen IP Solutions to provide high‑bandwidth internet connections with continuous threat monitoring and mitigation can help secure your data, optimize application performance and improve digital experiences. This study found that after adoption, application performance increased 40% for Lumen customers.

“If my organization had not added the Lumen circuits, network performance would have gone down. As a result, I believe end users would have been less productive. We’ve avoided a 10% decrease in employee productivity.”
– Study participant, Financial Services

Digital transformation, operational efficiency and business resiliency are key factors driving organizations to embark upon new journeys with their digital infrastructure transformation. But what are the challenges and opportunities midsize businesses encounter when trying to improve their application performance by undergoing these digital transformations?

Challenges and Opportunities for Midsized Businesses

One of the main challenges companies face is ensuring that their applications perform well and deliver a consistent, secure and reliable user experience. Businesses need to adopt a holistic and strategic approach to application performance. It’s important to consider the performance of your applications and underlying infrastructure, such as network, cloud and edge. You need to leverage the latest technologies and innovations, like artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation, to optimize application delivery and management. Partnering with a trusted and experienced provider like Lumen can enhance your reputation and trust by protecting your applications and data. Lumen can help you transform your application delivery and improve your business outcomes by providing access to Lumen’s best solutions and services for your company’s specific needs.

What Can We Do for You?

Lumen offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that can help you:

• Scale your application and business growth. Lumen Managed and Professional Services can help optimize your application performance and efficiency while helping to reduce your operational complexity and costs. Our expertise and best practices can help accelerate your digital transformation and innovation.
• Maximize your application speed and responsiveness. Lumen has solutions that can help deliver your applications closer to your end users to help you reduce latency and improve performance.
• Enhance your application reliability and availability. Lumen network and cloud solutions can provide your applications with a robust and resilient infrastructure that can handle any traffic spikes, failures or disasters. Lumen customers have reported the time required to resolve disruptions (when they did occur) was reduced by 66% after adopting Lumen IP Solutions.
• Protect your application and data from cyber threats. Lumen Security Solutions can offer your applications a comprehensive and proactive defense against malicious attacks, data breaches and compliance risks.
• Free up time for staff to focus on key business priorities. Lumen has over 20 years of experience in delivering network, cloud and edge solutions to businesses of all sizes and industries. With a team of experts and professionals helping you with design, implementation and management of your applications to improve performance, your employees can prioritize critical business objectives. Another Lumen customer told IDC, “Lumen IP Solutions has enabled my organization’s network management team to focus on other aspects of the company that are of interest, such as moving into eDiscovery. Lumen has freed up time for my organization to focus on other activities like never before.”
• Receive responsive and proactive support. Lumen is committed to providing you with the best customer service and satisfaction by listening to your needs and expectations, and tailoring solutions and services to your specific requirements and goals. Receive transparent and flexible pricing, billing and contracts to optimize your costs and value.

To improve your application performance, you need to partner with a provider that can offer you the best solutions and services for your specific needs. Lumen can help you optimize your network, cloud and edge performance to help boost your application speed, reliability and security—while also helping you leverage the latest technologies and innovations to maximize your application scalability, adaptability and cost-effectiveness. Protect your applications and data, which can enhance your reputation and trust.  

To find out more about how Lumen solutions can enhance your application performance, contact us today and speak to one of our experts.

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