Charting a Web Course

摘要

Redline Networks helps medical records management firm ChartOne cure network pains and boost the business case for its Web-enabled ERP apps. ChartOne, based in San Jose, California, sells technology and services that help health care institutions easily and cost-effectively access and manage patient records. To better serve its customers, which represent 20% of hospitals in the U.S., and to ease the burden on its own IT staff, the company wanted to migrate its ERP applications to the Web. Like many companies transitioning to Web-based applications, ChartOne hit performance snags that no amount of application tuning and new hardware could cure. Only after two years of trial and error did ChartOne find a cure in Redline Networks, which makes a family of appliances that deliver a broad set of capabilities to ease the network burdens and boost the business case for Web-enabled applications. With Redline's E|X 3250 enterprise application processor handling I/O processing, connection management, compression, load balancing and SSL processing, ChartOne customers and internal users are now experiencing the performance they require — and the company's IT group is realizing the administrative benefits that Web-enabled applications can bring.