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Independent Bank invests in Citrix end-to-end virtualization

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Independent Bank is an Ionia, Michigan based bank holding company with total assets of approximately $3 billion and about 1,300 employees. Founded as First National Bank of Ionia in 1864, Independent Bank now operates more than 100 offices across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It provides a full range of financial services including retail and commercial banking, mortgage lending, investments and title services. Find out:

  • The challenges – Ensure a consistent user experience and improve IT operations
  • Expanding and enhancing the Citrix environment 
  • Benefiting users and IT with OS provisioning
  • Seeing what users see 
  • Enabling employees to keep working during an interruption 
  • Consolidating to cut IT requirements
    Key Benefits
  • Improves the user experience
  • Increases IT efficiency and flexibility
  • Provides a platform for business continuity
  • Avoids expenditures for bandwidth and hardware

       Applications delivered
  • More than 120 applications, including:
    • Consumer and commercial loan platforms
    • Banking services platform
    • Microsoft® Office Suite 2007
       Networking Environment
  • Citrix® XenApp™, Platinum Edition running on six Dell R900 servers
  • Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer™, Platinum Edition
  • Citrix XenDesktop, Enterprise Edition
  • Citrix Access Gateway, Enterprise Edition
  • Citrix® XenServer™, Platinum Edition
  • Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003
  • PCs and Wyse thin-client appliances

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DWA – Virtual teamwork on multiple locations

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DWA is an ambitious installation and energy consulting firm that develops building installations for cooling, heating and isolation, among other things. More than 100 employees support projects in the area of environmental awareness, sustainable construction and energy efficiency. The DWA headquarters is located in Bodegraven in the Netherlands. Find out:
  • The challenge – Enable employees to work together from different locations
  • Implementing Citrix virtualization 
  • Local teams work together with a centralized
    graphical AutoCAD application 
  • Freedom and control come together

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2012: Virtual Desktops Are All the Rage

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As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand server virtualization, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider virtual desktops.

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Citrix: Desktop Virtualization Makes Good Security Sense

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Network World — One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualization is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to Citrix.

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Seminar - Financial Consolidation: leaping to success - 15 Feb 2012

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Are spreadsheets wearing you out?

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Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

Why You Can Never Stop Perfecting Your Business

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The most successful owners, like the best athletes, know there's no reaching the top. There's only working harder and learning faster than the next guy.

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Blog Topics: Talent Management

Citrix: Desktop Virtualization Makes Good Security Sense

Posted by Rick Yvanovich on

Network World — One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualization is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to Citrix.

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Seminar - Financial Consolidation: leaping to success - 15 Feb 2012

Posted by Rick Yvanovich on

Are spreadsheets wearing you out?

Read More…

Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

2012: Virtual Desktops Are All the Rage

Posted by Rick Yvanovich on

As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand server virtualization, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider virtual desktops.

Read More…

DWA – Virtual teamwork on multiple locations

Posted by Rick Yvanovich on

DWA is an ambitious installation and energy consulting firm that develops building installations for cooling, heating and isolation, among other things. More than 100 employees support projects in the area of environmental awareness, sustainable construction and energy efficiency. The DWA headquarters is located in Bodegraven in the Netherlands. Find out:
  • The challenge – Enable employees to work together from different locations
  • Implementing Citrix virtualization 
  • Local teams work together with a centralized
    graphical AutoCAD application 
  • Freedom and control come together

Read More…

Blog Topics: Cloud Computing

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