PBI today announced a partnership with Bigleaf Networks, the performance control layer for the multi-carrier, multi-path enterprise. This addition further enhances PBI’s managed services portfolio and builds on its established approach to delivering consistent, high-performance connectivity for clients.
By incorporating Bigleaf’s solution into its service offering, PBI is adding a dedicated performance control layer to its connectivity strategy, helping clients deliver consistently high application performance and reliable uptime across their existing internet infrastructure.
In a cloud-first environment, business outcomes depend on application performance, not just connectivity. Connectivity itself has largely commoditized, and the dominant failure mode is no longer the hard outage, it is degraded experience. Bigleaf addresses this by continuously measuring performance in real time and steering traffic across all available connections to protect the experience of every application.
Delivering Measurable Client Value
With this addition, PBI clients benefit from continuously optimized application performance, along with greater resilience, visibility, and more efficient use of their existing connectivity investments, including:
- Continuous performance optimization: Traffic is steered across every circuit in real time to protect application experience — not only when a connection fails, but every second.
- Application-aware prioritization: Business-critical tools such as Microsoft Teams, VoIP, ERP systems, and cloud platforms are automatically prioritized across all available paths.
- Uninterrupted sessions: Multiple static IP addresses keep critical cloud applications running without disruption as traffic shifts between circuits.
- A faster path to the cloud: Bigleaf’s cloud access network provides a more direct, predictable path to major cloud providers for better application performance.
- Full visibility: Real-time and historical insights support proactive monitoring and informed decision-making.
“Reliable connectivity is essential to how our clients operate,” said Paul Goduco, CTO of PBI. “Adding Bigleaf to our managed services offering gives us another layer of intelligence to how we deliver network performance for our clients.”
A Performance Control Layer, Not Just Failover
Bigleaf sits between commodity connectivity and the applications that depend on it, continuously measuring, adapting, and making decisions. Rather than waiting for a circuit to fail and switching to an idle backup, Bigleaf runs an active-active model in which every connection operates simultaneously and traffic is optimized across all of them in real time. The result is better application performance, with clients making full use of the bandwidth they are already paying for instead of leaving a secondary circuit idle.
Traffic is dynamically steered based on real-time conditions such as latency, jitter, and packet loss, protecting application performance and making more efficient use of existing connectivity investments — all without manual intervention.
Bigleaf also operates a global private backbone that connects directly to major cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google. This creates a more efficient and predictable path for traffic, improving performance for distributed and hybrid workforces.
Supporting Client Outcomes
This partnership reflects PBI’s ongoing focus on evolving its services to meet the changing needs of clients. As reliance on cloud applications and distributed workforces grows, PBI continues to expand its capabilities to ensure clients have the connectivity performance required to operate effectively.
PBI has already begun deploying Bigleaf solutions for clients, helping organizations improve application performance, increase resilience, and gain greater visibility into network operations across distributed environments. With fast deployment and seamless integration into existing environments, clients can realize value quickly without disruption.
In addition to deployment and ongoing management, PBI takes a consultative approach by working closely with clients to evaluate their existing internet infrastructure and carrier spend. By reviewing current circuits, network usage, and provider performance, PBI helps clients identify opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize connectivity strategy, and maximize the value of their network investments.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the partnership between Portfolio BI and Bigleaf Networks?
Portfolio BI has partnered with Bigleaf Networks to enhance its managed services offering with continuous application performance optimization. By integrating Bigleaf’s performance control technology, Portfolio BI helps clients improve application reliability, optimize internet connectivity, and deliver a more consistent user experience across cloud environments.
How does Bigleaf Networks improve application performance?
Bigleaf Networks continuously monitors network conditions such as latency, jitter, and packet loss. It automatically steers traffic across multiple internet connections in real time to maintain optimal application performance. This helps ensure business-critical applications remain responsive even when network conditions fluctuate.
What are the benefits of the Portfolio BI and Bigleaf Networks partnership?
Clients benefit from continuous application performance optimization, intelligent traffic steering, improved network resilience, greater visibility into network performance, and more efficient use of existing internet connectivity. The solution also supports uninterrupted cloud application sessions and faster, more predictable access to major cloud providers.
Which applications benefit from Bigleaf’s technology?
Bigleaf helps improve the performance of business-critical applications including Microsoft Teams, VoIP platforms, ERP systems, virtual desktops, SaaS applications, and cloud services hosted on providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Does Bigleaf replace an organization’s existing internet providers?
No. Bigleaf works alongside existing internet service providers rather than replacing them. It adds a performance control layer that intelligently manages traffic across available connections, allowing organizations to maximize the value of their current connectivity investments.
How does Portfolio BI deploy and manage Bigleaf solutions?
Portfolio BI provides end-to-end deployment, ongoing management, and proactive monitoring of Bigleaf solutions as part of its managed services offering. The team also evaluates clients’ existing internet infrastructure and carrier usage to identify opportunities to improve performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Who can benefit from this managed services solution?
Organizations that rely on cloud applications, hybrid work environments, or distributed offices can benefit from the solution. It is particularly valuable for investment management firms and other businesses that require reliable, high-performance connectivity for mission-critical applications.
Why is continuous application performance important?
As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based applications, user experience depends on consistent application performance rather than simply having an internet connection. Continuous optimization helps reduce disruptions caused by latency, congestion, or packet loss, improving productivity and supporting business continuity.
What managed services does Portfolio BI provide?
Portfolio BI delivers managed cloud infrastructure, investment management technology solutions, network optimization services, cybersecurity, governed AI deployment and ongoing operational support. Its managed services are designed to help organizations improve security, governance, application performance, and the reliability of their technology environments.
How can organizations learn more about Portfolio BI’s managed services?
Organizations interested in improving cloud application performance and network resilience can contact Portfolio BI to discuss their existing infrastructure, evaluate connectivity performance, and explore managed services tailored to their operational requirements.
