LeasePlan Infrastructure Services

LeasePlan is a Dutch financial services company focused on fleet management. Established more than 45 years ago, the company has grown to become the world’s leading provider of fleet management services and is now active in 30 countries. LeasePlan employs more than 6,000 people.

Eight years ago, LeasePlan wished to consolidate all IT infrastructures to a centralized location. Consequently, a new company, LeasePlan Infrastructure Services, was created in Dublin. The IT staff is responsible for managing the company’s “Wintel” services, including networking and technical architects and services over 5,000 users in 26 different countries. They wanted to expand their server capabilities to a complete end-to-end service for their customers.

They needed a solution that would control Citrix end-to-end and integrate well with App-V. RES Workspace Manager provides them the flexibility to centralize and control all our Citrix published desktops and virtualized applications and provides them with the highest level of security. IP based security is a key functionality that LeasePlan required, this was requested and is now included in Workspace Manager.

One of the biggest challenges was around functional requirements, such as people being able to use USB ports. Clearly, this involved a need for security. Workspace Manager provides complete control of the Citrix desktop, plus the operational management, such as what applications are published on which desktop, group based deployment and how various different versions of the same application are dealt with. Workspace Manager also runs seamlessly with App-V.

LeasePlan IS can now have centralized control over their entire and ever-growing Citrix XenApp estate, enabling their users to have a personalized workspace that is provisioned based upon the applications and printers they need to be productive.

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