Windows Thin PC Customer Solution Case Study Financial Services and Marketing Solutions Firm Boosts Productivity with Thin Computing “We’re helping employees do their jobs better by Overview Country or Region: United States giving them access to their virtual desktop [regardless Industry: Financial services of where they’re working]…. Based on what we’ve seen Customer Profile so far, Windows Thin PC is a godsend.” Headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota, Deluxe provides business and financial Scott Valeri, Manager for Enterprise Desktop and services to corporate customers and is a Mobile Architecture and Engineering, Deluxe leading printer of personal and business In a bid to reduce excessive IT support costs for PCs, Deluxe checks. It has 7,100 employees. recognized the need to adopt a more advanced client operating Business Situation system such as thin client computing. Deluxe determined that a Deluxe needed to update its aging PCs to a virtual desktop environment to provide full refresh of its traditional PCs would be too expensive, and higher reliability and performance and to thin-client devices running an embedded operating system did lower IT support requirements. not offer the performance that the company needed. To address Solution these challenges, Deluxe became an early adopter of Windows To boost performance and lower costs, Deluxe began transitioning older PCs and Thin PC—a version of Windows 7 that helps repurpose PCs as newly purchased Intel Atom–based thin thin clients and requires less disk space and locked down to PCs to the Windows Thin PC operating system. prevent user changes. Deluxe began deploying it on both older PCs and newly purchased customized thin PCs from Intel. Now, Benefits Lower costs Deluxe has streamlined IT tasks, reducing PC setup time from Improved system performance hours to minutes, and taken advantage of higher performance Streamlined IT operations Preserved IT investments, extended PC and reliability to extend the PC lifecycle. lifecycle
Windows Thin PC Customer Solution Case Study Financial Services and Marketing Solutions Firm Boosts Productivity with Thin Computing Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Financial services Customer Profile Headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota, Deluxe provides business and financial services to corporate customers and is a leading printer of personal and business checks. It has 7,100 employees. Business Situation Deluxe needed to update its aging PCs to a virtual desktop environment to provide higher reliability and performance and to lower IT support requirements. Solution To boost performance and lower costs, Deluxe began transitioning older PCs and newly purchased Intel Atom–based thin PCs to the Windows Thin PC operating system. Benefits Lower costs Improved system performance Streamlined IT operations Preserved IT investments, extended PC lifecycle “We’re helping employees do their jobs better by giving them access to their virtual desktop [regardless of where they’re working]…. Based on what we’ve seen so far, Windows Thin PC is a godsend.” Scott Valeri, Manager for Enterprise Desktop and Mobile Architecture and Engineering, Deluxe In a bid to reduce excessive IT support costs for PCs, Deluxe recognized the need to adopt a more advanced client operating system such as thin client computing. Deluxe determined that a full refresh of its traditional PCs would be too expensive, and thin-client devices running an embedded operating system did not offer the performance that the company needed. To address these challenges, Deluxe became an early adopter of Windows Thin PC—a version of Windows 7 that helps repurpose PCs as thin clients and requires less disk space and locked down to prevent user changes. Deluxe began deploying it on both older PCs and newly purchased customized thin PCs from Intel. Now, Deluxe has streamlined IT tasks, reducing PC setup time from hours to minutes, and taken advantage of higher performance and reliability to extend the PC lifecycle.