Schneider Electrics FZE opts for Citrix for an effective application delivery

Schneider Electrics is a global specialist in energy management and offers integrated solutions for Energy & Infrastructure, Industry, Data Centers & Networks, Buildings and Residential markets. With local presences in 190 countries and revenue of €17.3 billion in 2007, Schneider Electrics is surely a recognized world leader in Electricity and Automation management vertical.

Schneider Electrics FZE is one of the local presences in the Middle East region and had planned a new branch office setup. This new office will have 100 plus users. They wanted a solution that will enable these users to access all applications across the enterprise and geographies. This persuaded them to look out for an efficient technology partner who would understand their requirement and provide consultation for the best suited option as well as help them delpoy the system.

Solutions ME, one of the elite names in Middle East offering IT and technology solutions assisted Schneider. Vijay Kumar, Citrix Consultant at SME acted as the consultant/project manager. His foremost task at hand was to understand Schneider's requirement and then suggest a robust and reliable solution. Vijay proposed them to go ahead with the Citrix Platform as their requirement was secure and immediate access to applications.

Citrix as the solution is an end-to-end Windows application delivery system that offers both client-side and server-side application virtualization, for optimal application performance and flexible delivery options. Its deployment will help the business to move fast, by reducing time and cost of delivering Windows applications from months to days or hours. It would also ensure optimum productivity with instant application availability, by simply creating new user accounts, with role-based access to all Windows applications. The Windows applications would be centralized on servers managed by IT, making it easy and cost-effective to update applications at all branch offices and other distant locations.