Centralis : Flexible and Mobile Working Services

Flexible, Remote and Mobile Working

Established specialists with an excellent track record in the design and deployment of flexible and mobile working, Centralis consultants have the skills and experience necessary to find the right solution for each customer. Centralis offer independent advice based on top-tier partnership with the leading vendors to provide customers with solutions that best fit with their needs, existing investments and current budgets.

Flexibility and Mobility Solutions

Flexible & Mobile Working Case Studies

	The AA Centralis desktop solutions deliver reliable access to the AA at the roadside.
	Centrica Centralis provide standard builds to thousands of service engineers throughout the UK.
	Bracknell Forest Borough Council Flexible working at the council saves over £300,000 pa in direct costs.

Business Issues

Reduce Costs: Provide users with the computing power they need, where they need it, without the need for expensive installation to the client device
Improved Flexibility: Providing a secure, reliable, predictable and cost-effective way of delivering new applications to users
Business Continuity: An effective location independent working solution can also help meet business continuity requirements
Protect Corporate Data: Allow access from any device and any location, but retain the data securely within the organisation - increasing flexibility without compromising security

The rising costs of travel and accommodation, the need to provide business continuity, improve work-life balance and reduce carbon emissions all drive organisations to look at delivering applications to users in locations outside the standard workplace.

Centralis has a 12 year track record in providing solutions across every sector, from medium sized customers up to some of the UK's largest organisations. These have ranged in scope from the delivery of remote access to applications through to the build and management of access devices for multi-thousand user mobile workforces.

Drawing on product offerings from key partner vendors Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and AppSense, the Centralis Flexible and Mobile Working Service provides cost-effective application delivery to its point of use, whether that is home working, hot-desking, branch offices, mobile workers or internet cafes.

Application Delivery to The Point of Use

Centralis helps customers create highly flexible, secure, scalable and resilient application delivery environments. The results change the way an organisation delivers information services to its users and can make the dispersed operation of the whole organisation more flexible, while actually reducing operating costs.

Mobile workforces need more than just access to real-time systems. They need their device to be reliable and easy to use. Centralis has worked with mobile teams of many thousands of users to create standard builds and ensure that these are locked-down, secure and centrally managed.

Adding either virtualised applications or access to virtual desktops (VDI) increases the scope of the applications which can be delivered, without compromising the standard build or the security of the corporate data.

Hot Desking and Home Working

Creating a centralised application delivery model not only simplifies the operation for the I.T. team, it can have significant benefits for the organisation and staff too. Bracknell Forest Borough Council has appeared as a case study at two Citrix iForum conferences. Ian Slee, Assistant Borough IT Services Manager at the Council says "The Citrix implementation has enabled the Council to introduce hot desking and home working services. We are now able to rapidly deploy access to any back office application, independent of the end client desktop version or location. This environment also enables the team to rapidly rollout upgrades without the need to modify any client workstation configuration."

Many customers report that staff use flexible working solutions to improve work life balance by working from home, avoiding peak period travel and making use of more flexible office space through hot desking and drop-in centres. The result is typically happier staff and improved staff retention - together with reduced travel and accommodation costs.