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Server Based Thin Client Solutions

Profile is a well-established pioneer of designing and supporting server based thin client Computing environments. This model provides the security and manageability of a single data repository while provide a robust managed end user experience. Applications can be rolled out in hours not days, and end user support no longer centers on the desktop device, but on more pressing issues, like usability.

Unlike the “Fat Client or PC” which executes applications locally the Thin Client solution combines hardware and software to give users access to applications that are run entirely from more powerful servers or the Internet! Companies can maximize IT investments by utilizing both existing pc’s running terminal software and by running true thin client devices. Thin Client Solutions are easily scaleable and can support 1000’s of users at widely dispersed locations.

They are also affordable.

Networks of 3 to 5 workstations are highly cost effective, and virtually immune to obsolescence. Payback on a thin client network for a small business is generally less than a year. To learn more about thin client computing visit our White Paper Library, surf the Web, or contact us to learn more.

The Gartner Group says that Thin Client solutions can reduce total cost of ownership by as much as 80%.

IDC analyst Ann Bui states, “Not every employee needs a full-fledged PC when dozens can hop on buses, so to speak, and use thin clients connected to common servers. Why would anyone prefer coping with hard-drive crashes, e-mail viruses, lost CD's and Windows bugs in lieu of giving up desktop PCs?”

Some considerations for Thin Client Server Based Computing are:

HARD SAVINGS

  • Up to 80% decline in support costs (Gartner Group)

  • Elimination of PC upgrades

  • Elimination of contractors required to facilitate application upgrades

  • Reduction or elimination of remote office servers

  • Significant reduction in PC maintenance expense

  • Purchasing of less expensive Windows Terminals instead
    of new PCs

  • Slashing of training expense

  • Thin Clients are vastly less expensive to operate taking
    only a fraction of the power of the standard PC

SOFT SAVINGS

  • No user downtime while desktops are upgraded

  • No user downtime while new applications are loaded or old applications upgraded

  • Vastly reduced user downtime waiting for help desk response

  • Less system downtime through better redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities

  • Application support can be done remotely

  • Data security is greatly enhanced

STRATEGIC BENEFITS

  • Applications available to all users anytime, anywhere

  • Faster time to market

  • Better customer responsiveness

  • Better distributed decision making

  • Quick expansion through opening new offices and/or setting up new users

  • Quick assimilation of acquired companies or organizations

  • Quickly and inexpensively enables Webification of non-Web applications - your employees can access their desktops from home or on the road

  • Enables organization-wide  application standardization

OTHER BENEFITS

  • Productivity gains from telecommuting capabilities

  • Reduced risk of data loss (since data is centralized)

  • Homogenizing clients (UNIX, Mac, Linux, etc.)

  • Improves remote user support

  • Largely eliminates incentive to steal end-user devices (i.e. fat-client PCs)

  • Helps prevent theft of intellectual property (i.e. data)

  • Eliminates games & non-productive time

  • Eliminates PCs as status symbols

  • Virtually "Virus Free"

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