EGS-Groupe Laurent finds mobile connectivity, thin client computing support, and a secure, fast, and cost-effective remote access solution in NX.

About the Company

This leading trader of Automotive and Industrial technical spare parts, EGS-Groupe Laurent, with more than 900 employees dispersed among 100 remote offices and affiliates throughout France, uses NX Enterprise Server to provide on-demand access to centralized application servers.

The Challenge

EGS has a host of Windows and Linux-based applications that their 900 employees need to access remotely and securely, including Windows Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Business Objects, Firefox, Open Office and desktop environments hosted centrally on IBM Blade Centers. When EGS first began investigating ways to offer remote access to all these applications, they considered traditional solutions such as ICA-connected Windows Terminal Server, but were dissuaded by the cost. Licensing fees for Windows Terminal Server were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, too much for EGS to connect their 900 employees. In addition, EGS was concerned that some of their slower, outdated, and more intensive-bandwidth applications would not have ideal response time remotely.

The Solution

With its low subscription cost of only $1494.50 and total cost of $10,000 in licensing fees, NX Enterprise Server was able to save EGS significantly more than the estimated $100,000 they would have spent in WTS licensing fees and support. EGS Project Manager, Damien Chambe, said, "NoMachine costs a tenth of what we would have spent with Windows Terminal Server, licenses and support included."

In addition, with NX, EGS found a remote access solution for their outdated and more intensive-bandwidth applications that they were concerned would run too slowly through traditional remote access connections. With NX's unique display protocol, NX was able to offer EGS a much faster, real-time remote access connection than competing solutions.

Because EGS runs both Windows and Linux-based applications, they were challenged to find a solution that would support both platforms. NX's thin client computing capabilities gave them remote access from and to all platforms and application types.

While NX's cost effectiveness, speed, improved response time, and session reliability were all selling points, security was critical. Because NX can retrieve and share data securely over the Internet by means of industry-standard SSH encryption, it offers secure data transmission over any link, and the best the market has to offer in secure remote access.

Results

Now, all EGS employees are able to access both Windows and Linux-based applications from anywhere. Furthermore, NX's disconnect/resume feature provides complete mobile connectivity, allowing employees to be in the middle of work at one location, disconnect their NX sessions, travel to a different location, resume the same session, and continue their work right where they left off.

Caroline Seroux, of IT Maintenance for EGS, said, "NoMachine offers improved response time in performance. We can now deliver bandwidth intensive applications, including those few crucial outdated applications that employees still need, much faster and at a fraction of the cost of what we were originally going to spend."

About NoMachine NX Enterprise Server

A fully-featured Unix terminal server and desktop consolidation tool allowing users to create, manage and operate an unlimited number of virtual desktop sessions on a single server. Perfect for companies which need to offer a complete set of corporate services to all mobile and on-site employees.

NX security is guaranteed at every layer involved in the communication process. NX uses SSH public-key encryption and 128 bit volatile random cookie generation.