SVN MultiSite Benefits for Managers

WANdisco's multi-site solutions dramatically shorten development cycles and reduce costs

Forrester’s TEI study revealed a 167% ROI with an 8-month payback period. The subject of the study was a Global Fortune 1000 firm in the semiconductor industry. The study also showed that ROI went up as more sites and users were added.
Cost savings result from four main factors:
- Reduced development cycle time due to reductions in QA and rework.
- Reduced downtime.
- Reduced administrative overhead.
- Reduced network bandwidth usage costs.
WANdisco's multi-site solutions even deliver dramatic cost savings over operating with no multi-site solution and using a central Subversion server with remote developers connecting over the WAN.
WANdisco provides an ROI calculator to determine what cost savings can be expected in each customer's environment.

Development tasks no longer have to be partitioned on the basis of geography, or time zone constraints because of technical limitations.
The most talented resources for a given project or task can work together regardless of location. This in itself leads to shorter development cycles, reduced costs, and higher quality.

Subversion functionality doesn't change after WANdisco's solutions are implemented.
Developers and administrators continue to use the clients and tools they're familiar with.

Recovery and failover are automatic and transparent after a network outage or server crash.
The risk of human error from manual recovery procedures is completely eliminated.
Backup servers can be at the same site as the primary server, or at a remote location thousands of miles away.
Expensive third party disk mirroring solutions for backup and recovery are not required.

Prevents unauthorized access attempts and alerts security administrators immediately when they occur.
Extensive audit reports provide detailed tracking of every user access to the source code repository, as well as any access violations. This eliminates the time-consuming manual data collection and reporting efforts that would otherwise be required during an audit.
When WANdisco's access control and multi-site solutions are implemented in combination, the security configuration is replicated to all sites automatically as are any changes. This insures that access control is enforced consistently across a distributed development organization.

Firms such as AT&T, Motorola, Avaya, Verisign, Lockheed Martin, Bally Technologies, John Deere, Honda, Cirrus Logic and others rely on WANdisco's technology.
Even smaller organizations outsourcing for the first time find that WANdisco's MultiSite, High Availability, Access Control and Clustering solutions pay for themselves many times over during just the first year of use.