Forrester Report Reveals 167% ROI and Payback Period of 9 Months for WANdisco’s Subversion MultiSite

San Ramon, CA November 5, 2009 – WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability and high availability, today announced the results of Forrester’s Total Economic Impact (TEI) Report for WANdisco’s Subversion MultiSite.   Forrester concluded that Subversion MultiSite generated a return on investment (ROI) of 167% with a payback period of 9 months.

The subject of the study was a Global Fortune 1000 firm in the semiconductor industry that had Subversion MultiSite in production for approximately one year at sites in the US and Asia. 

Significant benefits and cost savings were found in a broad range of areas that Forrester attributed to Subversion MultiSite’s ability to provide remote users with real time access to Subversion repositories, redundancy and elimination of downtime.

Among the key benefits highlighted in the Forrester TEI Report were the following:

• Two man-days of developer idle time eliminated each day.
• Increased developer productivity due to improved network performance.
• Reduction of build time from 16 hours to 1.5 hours.
• Ongoing maintenance costs effectively zero.
• Twice as many builds completed on a daily basis.
• 30% increase in bug fix rates.
• Elimination of downtime for maintenance.
• Ability to support twice as many software releases and products.
• ROI goes up as the number of developers and sites increases.

According to the Forrester TEI Report, “Companies using WANdisco’s Subversion MultiSite will see significant improvements in developer productivity. ROI will be even greater for organizations with more sites and developers than the customer used for the study. Using the TEI framework, many companies will find a compelling business case to make such an investment.”

Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology not only measures costs and cost reduction, but also weighs the enabling value of a technology in increasing the effectiveness of overall business processes.

“We are delighted with the results of this independent study,” said David Richards, President and CEO of WANdisco.

“This report proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that WANdisco provides real, tangible value for our customers. In difficult economic times WANdisco is saving its customers huge sums of money within the first year or purchase.”
The report is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.wandisco.com/forrester_tei

Free Webinar Featuring Forrester Analyst Jeffrey Hammond:
On December 3, 2009, a free webinar will be broadcast featuring Jeffery Hammond, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research covering the Software Configuration Management (SCM) space. Mr. Hammond and members of Forrester Research's consulting team will explain the reasons behind Subversion's rapid ascent to the leadership position in the SCM space, and discuss the findings of the TEI study.

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