Company Overview the Challenge the Solution Key Benefits
CASE STUDY KingsGate Community Church uses Parallels 2X Remote Application Server to provide a BYOD environment for its users. A scalable, low-cost, high-security solution. Company Overview In September 1988, Dave and Karen Smith left the city of Oxford, where Business Situation Dave was completing a doctoral thesis on the 18th century evangelist George Summary Whitefield, and moved to the city of Peterborough. They had a mandate to - Typical office administration build a local church that would impact the city, the region, the nation, operations with Microsoft Office and beyond. and finance applications - Significant number of users with In 2006, the Peterborough congregation moved into a brand new, Mac laptops purpose-built facility: KingsGate. In 2010, a second center was launched in - Cost of purchasing new PCs and Cambridge, and a vibrant, growing community is now being established. devices, and maintaining hardware was not scalable The Challenge KingsGate Community Church has typical office administration operations, which include extensive use of Microsoft® Office, Microsoft® Project, and Sage Solution Summary Line 50 for Finance. The church also has a significant number of - Turned to Parallels 2X users with Mac® laptops, so the ability to offer them simple integration into Remote Application Server for the system was nearly impossible without a server-based computing solution. virtual desktop and application Likewise, the costs associated with purchasing new PCs and devices, along delivery with maintaining hardware, was not scalable with the church’s growth. Finally, - One Gateway server and one and most importantly, KingsGate wanted to ensure that its IT infrastructure Windows server was secure.
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