Case Studies

Learn how today's leading mid market and enterprise organizations are leveraging Skytap Cloud as a scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud technology.



  • Case Study: Serena Software
    Case Study: Serena Software

    Serena Software is the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions for the Global 2000. The company’s software products help IT organizations deliver on business needs faster, cheaper, and more predictably. Whether developing custom applications for the mainframe or delivering IT services in the cloud, Serena Software products offer comprehensive capabilities for both application development and IT operations.

    The Silicon Valley-based software provider is using Skytap Cloud to drive software development and testing, technical training, and sales enablement across multiple countries and hundreds of users. Serena has transitioned its most dynamic workloads into Skytap Cloud, providing its IT department with a powerful solution that enables self-service for users across multiple business units within the organization, including teams collaborating across the United States, Ukraine and United Kingdom. As a result, Serena has shortened its software development and test cycles, streamlined its internal and external training processes, and increased the quality of its next generation software products.

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  • Case Study: Tenable Network Security
    Case Study: Tenable Network Security

    Tenable Network Security is the de facto standard for vulnerability and compliance management solutions with over 15,000 customers worldwide.Tenable’s real-time vulnerability and threat management technologies are used by the most demanding security professionals, compliance auditors, and executive risk managers to reduce the risk from mobile, cloud and virtual technologies.

    Tenable selected Skytap Cloud to support the virtual labs it required to meet growing demands for its virtual instructor-led training and to offer self-paced training resources for users to access on demand.

    Download: Tenable Network Security

  • Case Study: OSIsoft
    Case Study: OSIsoft

    OSIsoft™ delivers the PI System™, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events. With installations in 110 countries spanning the globe, the PI System is used in manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences, data centers, facilities, and the process industries. This global-installed base relies upon the PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational, manufacturing, and business data.

    OSIsoft selected Skytap to support the ability to easily provision virtual environments to meet a spectrum of needs, including those of its development and test, virtual training, and technical support functional groups.

    Download: OSIsoft

  • Case Study: Trek Bicycles
    Case Study: Trek Bicycles

    Trek Bicycle Corporation is one of the biggest bicycle manufacturers in the world with its products marketed through 1,700 dealers across North America, subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, and distributors in 90 countries around the globe. Trek selected Skytap Cloud for its application development and testing environments.

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  • Case Study: Ellie Mae
    Case Study: Ellie Mae

    Ellie Mae is the leading provider of software and services for the mortgage industry, and loan originators, lenders, underwriters, and service providers depend on Ellie Mae’s solutions every day to complete real estate transactions. Ellie Mae’s global application development and testing team is responsible for delivering multiple software releases a year and implementing new integrations and business process functionality to keep their customers competitive. Ellie Mae adopted Skytap to enable a more efficient and collaborative global development process and reduce IT infrastructure bottlenecks in its development process.

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  • Case Study: OpenText
    Case Study: OpenText

    OpenText is a provider of Enterprise Content Management software for the world’s largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text chose Skytap Cloud to improve the delivery of its complex software demos, and now uses Skytap Cloud across its worldwide sales activities and proof-of-concept (POC) deployments.

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  • Case Study: Vertex
    Case Study: Vertex

    Vertex provides tax technology solutions to increase efficiency, control, transparency and strategic decision making for Tax and Finance departments. The company has more than 10,000 customers—including SAP America, Inc., Toyota Financial Services, True Value Company, AEGON, ING Financial Holdings Corporation, and Olympus Corporate of the Americas. Vertex selected Skytap to provide a cloud-based training solution to expand, enhance, and scale its online training offerings.

    Download: Vertex

  • Case Study: Calypso
    Case Study: Calypso

    Calypso provides software for financial institutions and corporate treasuries. With more than 550 employees, 130 customers and 18,000 users worldwide, Calpyso has development offices in the most influential financial hubs in the world, including San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Calypso selected Skytap Cloud to create agile IT environments for its development, QA and support teams.

    Download: Calypso

  • Case Study: Binary Tree
    Case Study: Binary Tree

    Binary Tree is a leading provider of software for migrating from Exchange 2003/2007 and Lotus Notes to on-premises and online versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Binary Tree selected Skytap to accelerate and improve the delivery of its partner certification courses, and provide instant access to demos and proof-of-concept projects.

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  • Case Study: Nuance Communications
    Case Study: Nuance Communications

    Nuance Communications, Inc. is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its voice recognition technology and products are deployed at thousands of customer care sites globally, automating billions of calls in over 50 languages. Nuance Speech University is the company’s training organization for enterprise customers and channel partners. Nuance selected Skytap Cloud to expand, enhance and scale its online training offerings globally.

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  • Case Study: Cushman and Wakefield
    Case Study: Cushman and Wakefield

    Cushman & Wakefield is the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm, with 14,000 employees working throughout 63 countries. The firm offers a range of services, and represents a diverse customer base ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Cushman & Wakefield selected to move its application development and test environments to Skytap Cloud.

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  • Case Study: Buildingi
    Case Study: Buildingi

    Buildingi adopted Skytap for its development and test labs and discovered a new level of customer interaction was possible during their agile development process.

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