HYDERABAD: Eicher Group, one of the leading automobile company is using
Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server to improve productivity, reduce costs
and enhance information access across its countrywide business.
Prior to adopting Citrix, the remote offices at the Eicher Group shared
information via e-mail and mobile users accessed information from Eicher's
network via designated Web pages. The company needed an efficient way to
collect and disseminate information across the organization, including its
mobile sales staff. Besides, they wanted help in managing application
deployment at remote locations.
According to the Eicher Group
IT head Rajesh Mishra, Citrix provided Eicher Group a technology solution to
orchestrate its information flow from factories to offices and vice versa.
"Apart from enabling uniform information access, Citrix helped improve
productivity and reduce IT infrastructure and management costs. Citrix
software today plays a strategic role in Eicher's information management,"
said Mishra.
According to him currently all business applications at Eicher are being
managed through the centralized administration capabilities of Citrix
MetaFrame Presentation Server. The task of deploying new applications and
upgrades has been reduced from a weeklong affair to a couple of hours. It
has enabled the company to maintain zero escalation in its bandwidth budget
for the last two years -- translating into a 35 to 40 percent savings on
communication expenses.
Said Eicher Group technology solutions senior manager Manoj Gautam, "Citrix
has not only helped us in making important information available to all
users irrespective of location and time, but has also aided in eliminating
delays in updates and inter-office communication, thereby making it
real-time information."