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Customer Story: How a Leading Retailer Got Its Engineering Hours Back

  • October 7, 2026
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Managing network changes across a massive retail environment can quickly eat up engineering time.

One leading global retailer was handling Cisco IOS upgrades largely by hand, with engineers completing just one device per hour. NetBrain helped automate the validation work using its Triple Defense methodology, with checks before, during, and after changes. How-a-Leading-Retailer-Got-Its-…

The results:

  • 8x engineer throughput — from 1 to 8 devices per hour
  • Zero failures since implementation
  • $2.14M estimated ROI per year
  • Automated workflows that continue to run daily ahead of IOS upgrades

As one senior engineer shared:

“If we didn’t have NetBrain to automate that, we wouldn’t have finished this year.” How-a-Leading-Retailer-Got-Its-…

See how NetBrain is helping retail network teams reduce manual work, improve change confidence, and give valuable engineering hours back to their teams.

Read the customer story: https://www.netbrain.com/solution/network-automation-for-retail/