Centracon: flexibility requirements call for new concepts to the technical composition of desktop devices in the business and services must be based on the specific tasks Leichlingen dynamically configurable, June 11, 2011 – the increasing flexibility requests in the business will cause according to the consulting firm Centracon that the companies must in the future rely on brand new models in the design of computer workstations. Educate yourself with thoughts from Peter Schiff. Task of IT will be to devise a wide range of kleingliedrigen services, applications, and components that comprise the departments as needed to assemble their client configurations for work groups with similar tasks of employees as well as for special individual workstations. The challenge Centracon according in particular, not to leave the current trend of standardization and to create the necessary flexibility. The methodological principle can be so described, that the IT in their Technology responsibility a wide set of modular usable services and product proposals developed for clients, from which the business leaders each develop their own configurations”, explains Robert Gerhards, Managing Director of the consulting firm. This is similar to setting a dining: the cuisine provides basically a set of components, while the Cook designed a customizable menu after targeted selection from this range. While today employees for example, notebooks in a defined default configuration are provided, can Department exactly from the modular range select, which kind of end device and fits in which technical configuration to a specific activity”, explained Gallagher. Similar applies to the deployment of applications and services across service catalogs.
If she would be available as kleingliedrige components, the idea of standardization would be preserved. Still could be on the Business site created a high degree of flexibility, he stresses to closely align desktops to the respective needs of the workplace. The Centracon-consultant on the part of the departments, does not a professional strain in putting together the menu”because technical parameters and not functions determine the selection criteria. In particular the digital native generation has a great competence, concerning the need for and use of devices, because she became private big.” And he knows from consulting projects in DAX listed companies that the renewable generation for themselves claimed a strong interest in the codecision procedure. Centracon for these future models of business-oriented client management with smart client architecture “developed the required solution. It distinguishes itself above all as a result, the previously monolithic desktops with their infrastructure requirements to be replaced.
Instead, the employees receive a dynamically anywhere access to applications and data, modular services via automated processes as well as IT – related jobs with task-specific performance profiles. “Other features of the smart client architecture” belongs to the operation of the clients the possibility of a liberalisation of the devices and the use of cloud concepts. About Centracon: Solutions for flexible and cost-efficient deployment and management of IT jobs and applications characterize the core competencies of centracon. Our consulting spectrum extends in addition to the classical optimization and standardization workplace infrastructures by implementing innovative technology solutions such as application virtualization and virtual desktops, to process and infrastructure automation to innovative business solutions such as, for example, user-self-service concepts. Customers include, for example, Deutsche Telekom AG, FinanzIT, Deutsche Post AG, GAD eG, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Swisscom IT services, Deutsche Bahn AG, e.on and various federal agencies such as the Federal Ministry of the Interior. of think factory groupcom GmbH Wilfried Heinrich Pastorat Street 6, D-50354 Hurth phone: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-72 fax: + 49 (0) 2233 6117-71