ONDEO Nalco

Naperville, Illinois

With annual revenues of $8.5 billion in 2000 and more than 60,000 employees, ONDEO Nalco offers a full range of solutions to meet the water-related needs of cities and industries. ONDEO Nalco, a subsidiary of Suez, is the worldwide leader in water treatment and process chemicals with annual revenues of $2.4 billion. ONDEO Nalco's 9600 employees work with more than 60,000 customers in 130 countries in industry, government and institutions to solve and prevent problems, protect the environment, decrease costs and increase productivity and profitability. ONDEO Nalco's mission is to serve industries where water, energy and efficiency are of primary importance.

ONDEO Nalco Senior Network Specialist Deborah Croyle was faced with accelerated network growth in traffic and end-users. Bandwidth resources were being depleted and collaborative sales groups using Lotus Notes were using valuable time in the field to access mission-critical information.

"The increase in data transfer and replication in our daily sales operations has been growing exponentially," Croyle said. "But with that growth comes spiraling telecommunications costs. TurboGold 4.0 has allowed us to contain connection costs while managing more users and traffic within the existing network."

TurboGold controls soaring connection costs and deploys quickly and transparently to clients. Savings are felt immediately in terms of time, network resources and ROI. TurboGold software uses patented compression, streaming and caching techniques to accelerate the transfer of Lotus Notes databases. The software adapts to different workloads and incorporates the ability to grow with ONDEO Nalco's network as new clients and servers are added. As it does so, TurboGold enhances the flow of Lotus Notes information throughout the network.

"We experienced 50 percent overall network bandwidth savings and a 40 percent improvement for database replication right out of the box," said Croyle. She also cites TurboGold's clean installation as a key attribute. "It's extremely easy to deliver transparently to the end-user via e-mail with auto install."

ONDEO Nalco is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ondeonalco.com