When Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications hit the scene, many organizations had mixed emotions about what this would mean for their data. On-premises environments were all they knew, and the idea of connecting to something seemingly so intangible felt disjointed, dangerous, and inefficient. But thankfully, time has proven SaaS applications to be as connected, trustworthy, and efficient as promised.
This shift to the cloud has been great for enterprises everywhere – reducing operating costs and creating a virtual omnipresence that only SaaS applications can provide. The only thing that they truly require is fast and secure network connectivity. Legacy WAN architecture takes traffic from branches to data centers and then to the internet, which poses major problems in this new cloud paradigm, such as inefficiency, high costs due to expensive links, and performance degradation caused by latency – all of which can impact the user experience.
That’s why Cisco created Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp as part of our Cisco SD-WAN solution – to simplify and automate the process of connecting on-premises environments to the cloud, and to help ensure that the customer experience and security are the same in the cloud as they are on-premises.
Support for SaaS applications
Cisco SDWAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS supports top business productivity and collaboration applications, like Webex, Microsoft 365, AWS, Google Apps, Salesforce, Dropbox, SAP Concur, Intuit, Box, Oracle, Zendesk, Zoho, SugarCRM and GoToMeeting. The solution also automates best path selection for custom and standard NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition) applications, allowing enterprises to enable Cloud OnRamp for SaaS capabilities with the application of their choice.
And, with deeper integrations with Webex and Microsoft 365, Cisco SDWAN Cloud OnRamp can further enhance the selection of best-performing path and provide an optimal user experience for these applications.
Prioritizing and optimizing connectivity
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp delivers unified policy across all major cloud providers, optimal application experience with SaaS optimization, and automated, cloud-agnostic branch connectivity with Cloud Interconnect. And, by using informed network routing and URL categorization, it delivers path optimization, deeper analytics with telemetry, and policy automation for Microsoft 365.
And, thanks to Cisco SD-WAN technology, enterprises can build a scalable and carrier-neutral WAN infrastructure – allowing them to reduce WAN transport costs and network operational expenses. They can also leverage Cisco SD-WAN’s Cloud OnRamp for SaaS capabilities to intelligently route Microsoft 365 traffic, providing a fast, secure, and reliable end-user experience.
All paths to Microsoft 365 from each circuit at the branch, regional hub, and data center will be monitored continuously for performance, and the application traffic will be dynamically routed to the best-performing path – without requiring human intervention.
Empowering quality experience
Cisco SD-WAN empowers customers to apply business-centric, application-aware, and differentiated routing policies – providing end users at the branch direct connectivity to performance-intensive trusted applications, such as Microsoft 365, while routing generic Internet traffic via SWGs, CASBs, or the customer’s data center.
And, with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS, network administrators have superior real-time and historical visibility into application performance through a quality-of-experience metric score ranging from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best performance. This score gives network administrators visibility into never-before-seen application performance.
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Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp prioritizes reliability, visibility, and automation – all to streamline the process of connecting on-premises environments to the cloud and to ensure that customer cloud experience and security are the same as they are on-premises.
Learn more about optimizing SaaS connectivity using Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp by reviewing this white paper or get started today by reviewing the Cloud OnRamp Configuration Guide.
With unique capabilities to enhance the workforce productivity and network efficiency of their business, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp makes SaaS easy from anywhere and everywhere – so, don’t delay, get started now!
