Centralis Customers & Solutions: Government & Housing Sectors
		Central government, local government and housing associations are under huge pressure to reduce overall costs and yet still deliver essential services to demanding users. Centralis has helped many organisations reduce costs and increase productivity by increasing the use of flexible working and shared services -  transformation projects which have shown the true value of working in partnership. To ensure our customers get best value for their budgets Centralis combines strategic advice and independence, allowing us to design and deploy truly effective solutions.

	Customer References
	" The project’s fixed timescales meant that particularly close collaboration was required between the in-house team and Centralis. Excellent working relationships were established right from the off. "	Tina Hughes, ICT Manager, the Homes & Communities Agency
	" Centralising all our servers and file storage in one place will improve accessibility and productivity levels – Centralis’ proven track record in delivering Citrix-based solutions in complex environments was key to the success of the project.”	Peter Sullivan, Technical Architect, Surrey County Council

Centralis has worked closely with government and housing sector clients for many years, with flexible desktop and application delivery featuring strongly across both.

With large numbers of small offices, often over wide geographical areas, managing desktop estates and deploying applications over slow links is a constant challenge for most organisations.

Our clients range from the smaller local authorities to multi-billion pound central organisations.  Strong partnership and customer satisfaction are central themes to our customer references, and central to our commitment to best practice methodology.

Services available include:

• Branch Office Optimisation - Allow users high performance access to systems and data even over low bandwidth links

• Transform Desktops - Deliver existing desktops and complete new environments to users inside and outside the network

• Shared Services - Consolidate multiple environments into a resilient shared service, cutting costs, administration time and overheads

• Reduce Costs - Use our support and managed services to provide fixed cost, highly responsive services to keep your application and desktop delivery healthy

• Meet "Green" Directives - reduce energy use at the desktop and support flexible working initiatives

If you would like to find out more about working with Centralis as your partner in government or housing, please click here and we will contact you.

Centralis local government customers in England include Surrey County Council, Essex County Council, Leeds City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Council, Elmbridge Borough Council, Horsham District Council, Wealden District Council and Mid Sussex District Council.

In Scotland, Centralis has provided Citrix solutions for Fife Council and South Ayrshire Council.

Case Study - Surrey County Council
Surrey County Council worked with Centralis to provide a new application & desktop strategy for 8,000 users, replacing more than 3,000 desktop PCs across 300 sites with thin-clients- click here to read the case study.
 

Case Study - Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Solihull Community Housing Association in collaboration with Solihull MBC has deployed a Citrix XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to support independent working for a key group of staff -
click here to read the case study.

	Customer References
	" Centralis have been an excellent partner to work with on this project, like us they really understand the importance of establishing and following clearly defined best practice approaches to the design and implementation of modern day solutions."	Barry Foster, I.T. Manager, Moat Housing Group

In the housing sector, the Centralis case study and reference portfolio in the health sector now includes work for The Homes & Communities Agency, Moat Housing Group, Gallions Housing Association and Sanctuary Housing.

Case Study - Homes & Communities Agency
Centralis worked with the newly formed Homes & Communities Agency to deliver a shared service to allow staff from multiple housing agencies to access their centralised systems - click here to read the case study.
 

Case Study - Moat Housing Group
Moat Housing selected Centralis to help them deliver their centralised systems to staff throughout the South East of England - click here to read the case study.