Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), a wholly owned company of the Dubai government, has selected Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to enhance customer experience and improve operational efficiency.
ENOC has over 30 subsidiaries involved in refining, lubricant blending, storage, aviation, and retail, employing more than 9,000 people across 400+ locations to serve customers across 60 global markets.
To facilitate the organisation’s extensive business operations, a secure, fast, and reliable company-wide access to various IT applications and services is necessary. ENOC had been using a managed networking service based on MPLS until 2021, which became challenging to manage as the group’s critical applications and services moved to the cloud.
ENOC chose the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution to address this challenge, preserving the privacy of its MPLS network while enabling faster, more cost-effective internet and direct cloud access at each of its remote sites. The deployment of FortiManager provided a single-pane-of-glass view of the infrastructure, simplifying management and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The inclusion of FortiAnalyzer provided actionable insights into web traffic, applications, users, and threats to ease regulatory compliance.
Mohammed Al Rais, CIO, Emirates National Oil Company, said, “We needed a faster, more resilient infrastructure with deeply embedded advanced security. We also needed to do this within budget and without increasing management complexity. There were several product combinations that might have met most of the technical feature requirements on our list, but only Fortinet had the deep integration to create a single, secure, and manageable SD-WAN infrastructure.”
According to ENOC, with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN it benefits from enhanced security controls, increased operational efficiency, and improved customer service levels. The network’s reliability has increased, latency has decreased, and speed and performance have improved by four times, enabling ENOC to transform the customer service experience at its numerous filling stations, safeguarding its reputation and assets, and paving the way for continued revenue growth.
“We are pleased that ENOC is achieving its ROI and business acceleration goals. This is a demonstration that Fortinet meets the needs of organisations looking to enable digital transformation. This is possible only because Fortinet has converged critical security and network functions into a single and expansive platform,” said John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet.
