India, August 22, 2013: Citrix announced the deployment of XenDesktop®, its desktop virtualisation solution at Bharat Forge Ltd, a global provider of critical components to automotive & industrial sectors and the flagship company of $2.5 billion Kalyani Group. The implementation has resulted in improved efficiency and manageability and increased data security for Bharat Forge as the solution utilizing a scalable building-block approach which can deliver applications to any device in any workplace environment.
Through the years, Kalyani Group has been on a fast-track course of growth, by means of acquisitions and resultant geographical expansion initiatives. The widespread nature of business operations created systemic IT issues such as a thick client architecture posing a bandwidth issue to render applications as well as sub optimal support & security for company sites in remote areas. To address these concerns, the company decided to use a progressive technology like desktop virtualisation and selected Citrix as its preferred solution.
“Citrix’s XenDesktop® has proven to be a compelling strategy to increasing employee productivity, IT manageability and better security of data in the context of a far-flung location base of our organisation.” said Yogesh Zope, Group CIO at Bharat Forge elaborating on the benefits augured by the solution. “We plan to replicate this success by scaling up the deployment to 400 licenses by the end of the year.”
“Increasingly, conglomerates are recognizing the business transformational capabilities of technologies such as desktop virtualisation and mobility solutions towards increased productivity and better IT manageability. We are pleased to partner with Bharat Forge by providing our desktop virtualisation solution in empowering them to increase business productivity, enable secure access of enterprise data, and attain their strategic growth objectives.” said Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice President, India Subcontinent, Citrix.
Through a phased manner, the implementation began with virtualising the applications that were used by IT and was then extended to ERP, Tally and other business critical applications in the group. Although, the solution was implemented across multiple geographies, the consolidation of all its servers at one central location ensured manageability and better control. The implementation also augured well from a security and manageability standpoint. With the applications now hosted at the central servers, the company is now able to stream a single desktop image over the local area network to be accessed by thin clients. For home and remote users, the solution has empowered employees to access any data from anywhere with complete freedom of device choice.
About Bharat Forge Limited
Bharat Forge Limited (BFL), the Pune based Indian multinational is a technology driven global leader in metal forming having trans-continental presence across a dozen manufacturing locations, serving several sectors including automotive, power, oil and gas, locomotive & marine, aerospace and construction & mining.
Part of Kalyani Group – a US $ 2.5 billion conglomerate with 10,000 global work force; BFL today has the largest repository of metallurgical knowledge in the region and offers full service supply capability to its geographically dispersed marquee customers from concept to product design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and validation.
The world’s largest forging company with manufacturing facilities spread across India, Germany, Sweden and China, Bharat Forge manufactures a wide range of high performance, critical & safety components for the automotive & non-automotive sector. It is India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of automotive components and leading power train & chassis component manufacturer in the world. BFL’s customer base includes virtually every global automotive OEM and Tier 1 supplier. It takes pride in being at the forefront of a globalizing India and to contribute in making “Made in India’ a global brand in manufacturing industry.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.