Centralis Customers & Solutions: Finance Sector
		The banking, finance and insurance sector demands the highest standards of security and performance - and value for money. As well as providing application and desktop solutions for some of the leading names in the sector, Centralis software plays an important role in managing some of the largest Citrix farms. In 2010 Centralis opened its new offices in Bishopsgate to better support its City of London clients.

	Customer References
	" Everyone was very impressed by the progress Centralis has made over the last year in developing a working infrastructure model combining conditional access with virtual desktops and application streaming. It was particularly useful to see the disparate products coming together into a logical and clear operating model; something that's been lacking from the vendors themselves for quite some time.  "	Ewen Bruce, Mobility & Desktop Architect
	"At every stage Centralis demonstrated a professional approach to planning and implementing the virtualised solution, overcoming any technical challenge presented to them and delivering to a tight timescale."	Steve Conway, IT Manager, Permal Investment Management Services Ltd

With top level accreditation from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, Centralis works to the enterprise methodologies of their Consulting Services, ensuring high quality, scalable designs for secure, mission critical environments scaling from tactical deployments to multi-thousand user solutions.

Centralis solutions within the sector have included strategic Citrix architecture designs, many based on VMware virtualisation platforms, application virtualisation projects and the use of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop to deliver systems to a wide range of users from mobile sales teams to offshore call centres.

Services recently supplied to Finance sector customers include:

• Desktop Virtualisation - Advising on options for moving to desktop virtualisation

• Design - Designing enterprise class application and desktop delivery solutions

• Health checks - assessing the best practice compliance of hundreds of Citrix servers

• Personalisation - Using AppSense to improve end-user experience, login times and reduce application overheads

• Secure Remote Access - Ensuring that flexible working provision is both effective and highly secure to ensure regulatory compliance

• Centralis Harvester - Supply of market-leading Citrix farm management automation and auditing software

f you would like to find out more about working with Centralis in the Finance sector, please click here and we will contact you.

	Customer References
	" We initially engaged Centralis to undertake a review of our Citrix-based remote access solution. We were impressed by their structured approach that demonstrated a clear knowledge and expertise, together with an ability to deliver. "	Andrew Gordon, Senior Architect, Standard Life

Standard Life presented a case study on their Citrix “Access Strategy” project at Citrix iForum 2007. 

Key Centralis customers in the sector also include Barclays Bank, AXA Insurance, Dresdner Kleinwort, HBOS, RBS, Lloyds Bank, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re, Swinton Insurance, Mourant, Barclaycard, Budget Group, Rathbones, 3i, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, F&C Asset Management, Standard Life Ireland, Firstplus Financial Group, Medicapital Bank, Permal, and Catlin.

Case Study - Standard Life
Centralis worked in partnership with Standard Life to deliver a secure remote access and mobile working solution for employees in the UK that is credited with raising both employee productivity and staff retention.
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