What Our Customers Say

"This is the most effective service we've ever put in. Illinois Tool Works is very decentralized, with more than 625 business units in 44 countries. A lot of these businesses came through acquisitions made over the last 10 years, and each one has its own software and systems. Through this managed service, Corente provides us with a secured network and lets us push out any new IT applications that we need to provide to the business units around the world, and lets them manage the applications that run their business either locally or remotely."

—Gary Anton, Strategic Sourcing and IT, Illinois Tool Works

 

"The network has become the lifeline of our operation... Today, I have a highly secure, reliable network [via Corente] that not only boots up by itself, but monitors and updates itself as well."

—Jon Miller, Chief Information Officer, Reilly Mortgage Group

 

"Corente saves us time by providing the latest software patches and feature enhancesments that the business units need. We started using this in 2001, and it has enabled us to seamlessly connect a wide array of disparate systems and provide a secure network infrastructure. That infrastrcuture lets us send secure financial information, email, voice, video, and other data throughout the global enterprise...

"Previously, we used multiple frame relay services from a variety of providers to connect our business units, which was very expensive. During these last few years of cost containment, we replaced the majority of frame relay connections with Corente at an estimated savings of $5.5 million. The service also was very easy to deploy..."

—Gary Anton, Strategic Sourcing and IT, Illinois Tool Works

 

"Other alternatives [to Corente's Applications Without Boundaries™] were either more expensive or would have required my team to install, configure and operate separate services. This is turnkey."

—Peter Gottschalk, Director of IT, Barnes Aerospace

 

"With Corente, we can cost-effectively reach [emerging markets in remote locations], securely handle our clients' trading requirements and provide continuous monitoring. There are no upfront costs for us. We just pay Corente a fixed monthly fee for each connection."

—Steven Sales, Chief Information Officer, Marco Polo Network

 

"Our partnership [with Corente] grew out of the need for Prescient to provide secure connectivity between customer sites. Installing Corente's software was as easy as plug and play... We've never had anybody say this implementation hasn't worked, so take it out...

"By partnering with Corente, Prescient has been able to operate with a smaller staff than it would have to have without the remote capabilities... From my perspective, any company's biggest expense is going to be labor or revenue. This helps us to expand our reach without necessarily adding resources to do so."

—Marc Palano, Vice President, Prescient Development, Inc.

"To ensure the highest quality service possible, all of our properties—many in far reaching corners of the globe—require real-time access to a central reservation system, making always-on, reliable applications networking mission-critical. Corente eliminates the geographic and technological issues that previously vexed us; it does so with greater flexibility and performance, and significantly reduced costs."

—CIO, Leading Luxury Hotel Group

 

"Our partnership with Corente extends Tivoli-compatible management capabilities deep into the network fabric and allows data center managers to manage their networked applications using a single set of tools that are akin to the advanced data center automation tools that they already use."

—Mickey Nix, Sr. Tech. Architect, IBM Tivoli

 

"As the largest federated intelligent applications network in the world, we face many challenges in deploying applications and networking technologies. Implementing Corente across our entire global infrastructure has enabled us to deliver mission-critical applications and advanced services even where locations lack experienced IT staff. The ease of Corente's extranet capabilities has allowed our business units to deploy sophisticated supply chain application networks, and we have realized dramatic drops in our infrastructure costs and have achieved as much as 300% increase in performance on several applications."

—John Klein, Director of Telecom, Illinois Tool Works