Reece Group is a market leader in the distribution of plumbing, waterworks, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration products in Australia and New Zealand. To improve their customers’ lives, staff members at Reece Group strive for greatness every day. But with 5,000 employees working across 500 sites—all with their own application requirements—the team at Reece Group knew greatness was impossible to achieve without digital transformation.
An inefficient use of available bandwidth at Reece Group’s branches meant staff members were finding it difficult to connect to the applications they needed to service customers. Meanwhile, the resources it took to manage multiple data services in each location was leading to high overheads. So, Reece Group deployed Cisco’s software-defined WAN solution.
With faster connections and better application performance, Cisco SD–WAN has helped Reece Group provide always-connected workplaces for its staff members, who in turn can give better, speedier service to customers. New application features can be deployed and distributed seamlessly, new branches can come online faster, and Reece Group’s returns on its investments in networks and technical staff are growing.
Network administrator Peter Castle explains that in future, Reece Group wants to create a cloud-ready application environment. Cisco SD–WAN has helped the company move towards this goal by enabling it to prioritize cloud applications.