The document provides an overview of conducting a proof of concept (PoC) with ThousandEyes. It outlines the key stages of the PoC process, including preparation, trial active period, and go-forward planning. Success criteria for evaluating digital experience are also presented, such as correlating application performance with infrastructure issues, reducing troubleshooting time, and gaining proactive monitoring capabilities. The document emphasizes focusing the PoC on defined success criteria and having experts available for support during the trial period. A demo is also included to illustrate ThousandEyes capabilities.

1. Getting Started with
ThousandEyes
Proof of Concepts
Workforce Digital Experience

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Featured speakers
Ian Waters
Head of EMEA Marketing
Deepak Ravi
Technical Solutions Architect

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Agenda
• ThousandEyes Overview
• Identification & Qualification of
Opportunities
• Success Criteria
• Execution
• Demo
• Q&A
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The New Enterprise Reality
Internet is the new network
SaaS is the new app stack
Cloud is the new data center
Home is the new office

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Digital experience relies on service providers and networks outside of IT’s control
The New Enterprise Reality
SaaS
IaaS
CDN
DNS
DNS Provider
Security Provider
API
Customer
Data
Center

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ThousandEyes Agents
Globally distributed agents installed and
managed by ThousandEyes in 200+
cities around the world.
Cloud Agents
ISP | Broadband | Cloud Provider
Endpoint Agents
Browser-based plugins installed on
end-user laptops and desktops.
Apple | Microsoft
Enterprise Agents
Lightweight software-based agents easily installed
on your own network, in data centers, branch
offices and VPCs.
Cisco | Docker | Linux

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Apps
Customer
DX
Your
Deliver stellar digital
experiences to users
People
Workforce
DX
Your
Keep workers connected and enjoying
seamless app performance
Infrastructure
Enterprise
DX
Your
Optimize and sustain the flow of
your digital supply chain
Retention Satisfaction Time
32% of employees will be
permanently remote by 2022
Source: Gartner
Can cost organizations
$7,000/minute
Source: Atlassian
175 Enterprise & SaaS apps
deployed by IT
Source: Okta

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End-User Visibility
Network gateway
Web apps / SSH
SSO
Public / private apps
Remote access
VPN
DNS / HTTP / HTTPS
S E C U R I T Y A S A S E R V I C E
Cloud Proxy
SSO
Public cloud/
SaaS
Secure TLS
C I S C O S A S E
Optional
Internet
Private apps/nets
Co-location nets
All ports / protocols Gateway
ThousandEyes
Endpoint Agent
Application
performance
Proxy
performance
ISP network
performance
SaaS
performance
WiFi
parameters
Gateway and
DNS
performance
VPN Gateway
performance
Transit ISP
network
performance
ThousandEyes
End-to-end
Visibility & Actionable Insights

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• A ThousandEyes PoC is not
– A troubleshooting exercise
– An assessment
– For someone that says
"Let's do what you normally do.”
ThousandEyes PoC: What it Is and What it’s Not
• A ThousandEyes PoC is
– An in-depth evaluation of ThousandEyes
for a potential customer
– Used to demonstrate the business value
in the context of customers environment
with their data
– Used to arrive at the appropriate scope
of licenses customers require for
production monitoring
– An opportunity to differentiate the
unique value ThousandEyes provides

11. WDX Demo

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PoC Process
PREPARATION (2 weeks)
● Define Use Cases
● Assess Hardware/Resource Requirements
● Finalize Success Criteria
● Agree on MAP
● Verify Firewall Connectivity
● Deploy Endpoint Agents

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PoC Process
PREPARATION (2 weeks) TRIAL ACTIVE (4-6 weeks)
● Define Use Cases
● Assess Hardware/Resource Requirements
● Finalize Success Criteria
● Agree on MAP
● Install Enterprise Agents
● Verify Firewall Connectivity
● Deploy Endpoint Agents
● Create Tests
● Build Dashboards
● Configure Alerts
● Add User Accounts
● Continuously Monitor and
Optimize

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PoC Process
PREPARATION (2 weeks) TRIAL ACTIVE (4-6 weeks) GO-FORWARD PLAN (2 weeks)
● Define Use Cases
● Assess Hardware/Resource Requirements
● Finalize Success Criteria
● Agree on MAP
● Install Enterprise Agents
● Verify Firewall Connectivity
● Deploy Endpoint Agents
● Create Tests
● Build Dashboards
● Configure Alerts
● Add User Accounts
● Continuously Monitor and
Optimize
● Document Findings
● Develop Proof of Value
Summary
● Define Next Steps and
Implementation
Planning

15. Identification & Qualification of
Opportunities

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Third Party Dependency: The More The Better

17. Domain Search Tool
Demo

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The 3 Whys?
Why does the
customer care?
Why do
anything?
Why ThousandEyes?
The response must outline
the reason why this
customer’s problem is so
severe that it needs to be
solved now
The response should justify
why ThousandEyes is being
selected to solve this
problem and not any other
solution
The response should clearly
define the technical challenge
associated with the
customer’s infrastructure and
how it affects their business

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Register a PoC
You can register your ThousandEyes PoC by going to ThousandEyes Partners SalesConnect
page and clicking Register a PoC.

20. Success Criteria

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Use Case Discovery
• How do you differentiate performance related
issues on the laptop vs network vs application?
• How effective are your existing monitoring
tools for detecting an incident caused by a 3rd
party provider?
• When is the last time you had an outage with
your ISP? SaaS provider? How long did it take
them to respond?
• How much time do you spend triaging
issue between end-user vs ISP vs SECaaS vs
SaaS?

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End-User Digital Experience Success Criteria
Drive increased visibility into networks and bridge visibility gaps
● Correlate application performance with infrastructure issues.
● Visualize the end-to-end route users traverse when accessing critical applications, eliminating visibility blind spots.
● The ability to show end to end connectivity, highlighting where connectivity issues lie within the remote workers responsibility
(wifi, PC, ISP, SECaaS).

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End-User Digital Experience Success Criteria
Drive increased visibility into networks and bridge visibility gaps
● Correlate application performance with infrastructure issues.
● Visualize the end-to-end route users traverse when accessing critical applications, eliminating visibility blind spots.
● The ability to show end to end connectivity, highlighting where connectivity issues lie within the remote workers responsibility
(wifi, PC, ISP, SECaaS).
Demonstrate the ability to lower triage time and accelerate root cause analysis
● Enable rapid identification of an issue and the responsible party.
● Reduce MTTI and MTTR, helping to improve the user experience and perception of IT.

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End-User Digital Experience Success Criteria
Drive increased visibility into networks and bridge visibility gaps
● Correlate application performance with infrastructure issues.
● Visualize the end-to-end route users traverse when accessing critical applications, eliminating visibility blind spots.
● The ability to show end to end connectivity, highlighting where connectivity issues lie within the remote workers responsibility
(wifi, PC, ISP, SECaaS).
Demonstrate the ability to lower triage time and accelerate root cause analysis
● Enable rapid identification of an issue and the responsible party.
● Reduce MTTI and MTTR, helping to improve the user experience and perception of IT.
Move from a reactive to a proactive monitoring state
● Proactive alerting to problems based on defined thresholds before users are impacted.
● Provide interactive dashboards and reporting for individual teams, stakeholders and 3rd party providers to build a collaborative operational
model.
● Service assurance and verifying change, identifying if anything is broken during routine changes with before and after snapshots.

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End-User Digital Experience Success Criteria
Drive increased visibility into networks and bridge visibility gaps
● Correlate application performance with infrastructure issues.
● Visualize the end-to-end route users traverse when accessing critical applications, eliminating visibility blind spots.
● The ability to show end to end connectivity, highlighting where connectivity issues lie within the remote workers responsibility
(wifi, PC, ISP, SECaaS).
Demonstrate the ability to lower triage time and accelerate root cause analysis
● Enable rapid identification of an issue and the responsible party.
● Reduce MTTI and MTTR, helping to improve the user experience and perception of IT.
Move from a reactive to a proactive monitoring state
● Proactive alerting to problems based on defined thresholds before users are impacted.
● Provide interactive dashboards and reporting for individual teams, stakeholders and 3rd party providers to build a collaborative operational
model.
● Service assurance and verifying change, identifying if anything is broken during routine changes with before and after snapshots.
The ability to gather shareable evidence to hold Third parties accountable for performance
● Visibility of networks outside of customer control, and understand customer experience across domains and locations.
● The ability to easily generate shareable data for troubleshooting with all stakeholders.

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Before You Continue to Execution
• Does the customer understand what a PoC is & what a PoC is not?
• Did we clearly define & validate Success Criteria?
• Has the timeline been approved?
• Has the scope of the PoC been defined?
• Do we have statistics of current MTTI/MTTR to compare against?

27. Execution

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Executing the PoC
● Continuously save, document, and share interesting events
● Scope Creep - Focus can be lost when customer says “I didn't
know you can do this and that”. Push Back - First get through all
items included in the Success Criteria.
● Instantly access ThousandEyes experts (NOT Cisco TAC) 24x7 via
live chat from within the product

29. Demo

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Resources
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