Today, enterprise organizations are leveraging cloud-based services across many facets of their business. Everything from telephony to accounting, to the operation of a building, is now available as a cloud-based service. Previously, these services would all have been located on premise. With the growing adoption of cloud-based services and an organization’s reliance on these services, performance and security are critical to ensuring the continued operation and success of a business—not only over the short term, but also over the long term. This white paper examines the use of software-defined technology throughout a business and highlights the key considerations when investigating SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) solutions.