Bachmann Megafreight
Bachmann Megafreight manages incremental migration with IGEL
The battle against maintenance-intensive workplace environments has long ago become a global trend. Even in South Africa, there are increasingly more centralized computing architectures. The international logistics service provider Bachmann Megafreight already began unification of software and hardware in 2002. But that was not enough. Currently the mid-sized company is migrating to terminal server computing under Linux. Flexible thin client technology from Germany makes the gradual conversion possible.
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Exel Group: Make one out of two
The global logistic group Exel consolidates two country wide server based computing infrastructures at the South Africa site. IGEL Technology makes possible the necessary standardization of the IT environment.
The British Exel group is a global enterprise par excellence. With a turnover of 6.3 Billion British Pounds and 111,000 employees, the logistic giant operates 2.000 branches in 135 countries. Exel’s clients unify more than 75 percent of the worldwide largest enterprises outside the finance sector.
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Lamprecht Transport AG: Reduce to the Max
The logistics company Lamprecht integrates its desktop environment with IGEL Technology smart clients and subsequently cuts its total IT costs in half.
When Lamprecht Transport AG converted to server-based computing five years, it was one of the first transportation companies in Switzerland to consistently do so, and IT executives did not yet know the fundamental course that this would entail. “Except for the prognosis of consulting firms and manufacturers, there were no clues as to what extent the final savings potential was,” recalls Reto Spörri, IT director at Lamprecht. “Although there were no experience values, we nevertheless dared to take the step into the new technology.”
