The largest family owned and operated specialty gift business in the northeastern U.S., The Paper Store employs more than 4,000 people at nearly 90 stores across six states, and in the company’s 500,000-square-foot distribution center. With frequent new store launches, technology management grew more complex, and wide area networking costs soared.
The company sought to consolidate security and networking functions into fewer devices. Leveraging a software-defined branch (SD Branch) approach—including next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), secure in-store Ethernet switching, wireless access points, and software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) at the edge—The Paper Store was able to reduce complexity and rationalize costs. As one of the numerous measured business impacts, the retailer’s improved connection reliability alone helps avoid $13,000 in lost monthly revenue per store.
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The largest family owned and operated specialty gift business in the northeastern U.S., The Paper Store employs more than 4,000 people at nearly 90 stores across six states, and in the company’s 500,000-square-foot distribution center. With frequent new store launches, technology management grew more complex, and wide area networking costs soared.
Watch Now“Several stores—including our highest-performing store—had some level of primary circuit failure during a period when the company typically generates more than a quarter of its annual revenue. With the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution in place, those stores stayed online. In fact, they were not even aware of the outage.”
– Ken Guild, IT Systems Security Manager, The Paper Store
Maximize revenues in peak sales seasons by ensuring that network outages do not affect in-store transaction processing
20% cost savings on network management, monitoring services, and equipment leases
Sixfold increase in WAN bandwidth
Greater visibility into, and control of, all nodes in the security infrastructure
15x faster deployment of new stores helps avoid $52,000 in lost monthly revenue per store setup
Up to 480% improvement in branch connection reliability helps avoid $13,000 in lost monthly revenue per store
Streamline management of outages with significantly reduced IT staff time
We can take a more proactive stance to manage security. This gives us confidence that we are equipped to manage security threats for the next 5 to 7 years.”
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As of today, we have implemented the Fortinet solution in 70 restaurants and set the standard for all new restaurants (BURGER KING® and POPEYES®) to use this model. The Fortinet solutions we deployed are already enabling simpler processes. This allows us to evaluate existing risks and to provide better visibility into the volume and types of attacks in our data centers, thus guaranteeing greater control over our environment.”
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