Focused on providing a total solution, Lenovo has rounded out its offering by partnering with leaders in this space, such as IGEL, the very best OS for endpoints connecting to the Cloud. As IGEL is designed for the Cloud, security and data compliance are built right in. Enterprise-class management can support the ecosystem of solutions required to keep your users productive, regardless of where they are, securely without needing a VPN.
Lenovo powered by IGEL provides the ultimate cloud-connected device.
IGEL OS enables organizations to easily manage, protect, and control their endpoint devices, at a small fraction of the time and cost associated with Windows, while improving endpoint device performance and increasing efficiency. The result is greater security, much easier endpoint management and control (especially per SW updates and patches), and significant endpoint device and operational cost savings which can be in the millions in larger organizations.
- Simple and Scalable Endpoint Management
- Enhanced Endpoint Security Protection
- Richer Employee Experience
- Support Sustainability Strategies.
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SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
Financial institutions are at risk of cyber-attacks due to increased digitization and managing multiple endpoints across multiple locations. Additionally, complying with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX is challenging. (In 2022, the financial industry experienced a 4.4% increase in average cost from data breaches, from USD 5.72 million in 2021 to USD 5.97 million in 2022.)
SOLUTION
- Endpoint Security: IGEL's endpoint management software, integrated with Lenovo devices, provides robust security features such as secure boot, encryption, and multi-factor authentication. This helps safeguard endpoints and prevent unauthorized access, reducing the risk of data breaches.
- Simplified Management: IGEL's software allows for centralized management of diverse endpoints from different manufacturers. This streamlines the management process, ensuring consistent performance, security, and updates across all devices. It helps financial institutions maintain control and enforce security policies effectively.
- Integration with Cloud Platforms: IGEL's software supports multiple cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Citrix, VMware, and Amazon Web Services. This compatibility enables financial institutions to leverage their existing infrastructure and cloud investments while benefiting from IGEL's endpoint management capabilities.
- Secure Remote Work: With the rise of hybrid work environments, IGEL and Lenovo provide solutions that prioritize security. With its built-in security features, IGEL OS helps protect against ransomware attacks and other forms of malware. This ensures that remote workers can access company resources securely, reducing the risk of cyber threats.
- Compliance Support: Lenovo's partnership with IGEL allows financial institutions to meet evolving security needs and compliance requirements in hybrid work environments. The integration of hardware and software solutions ensures a seamless and secure user experience, empowering organizations to optimize IT resources, enhance security, and maintain regulatory compliance.
SCALABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY
Financial organizations must be able to scale their IT infrastructure efficiently in response to business growth and fluctuating market demands. This requires flexible, easy-to-deploy solutions.
SOLUTION
- Streamlined Endpoint Management: IGEL's endpoint management solutions, integrated with Lenovo devices, offer simplified and centralized management. This allows financial organizations to efficiently scale their IT infrastructure by easily deploying and managing a large number of endpoints. It enables IT teams to control and configure remote endpoints, ensuring consistent performance and security across the organization.
- Modular and Tamper-Resistant OS: IGEL OS, the operating system provided by IGEL, is modular and tamper-resistant. It allows organizations to optimize their endpoints by turning off unused features, reducing the attack surface, and enhancing security. The read-only file system of IGEL OS further strengthens its tamper resistance, ensuring the integrity of the endpoint devices.
- Compatibility with Cloud Platforms: IGEL's software supports multiple cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Citrix, VMware, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This compatibility enables financial organizations to leverage their existing cloud infrastructure and easily scale their IT resources based on business growth and market demands. It provides the flexibility needed to adapt to changing requirements.
- Secure and Productive End-User Experience: Lenovo's hardware and IGEL's OS ensure a secure and productive end-user experience. Features such as secure boot, encryption, multi-factor authentication, and shadowing enhance endpoint security. IGEL's partnerships with various technology providers also ensure compatibility with collaborative tools, multimedia applications, and unified communications platforms.
- Cost and Energy Efficiency: IGEL and Lenovo's collaboration promotes cost and energy efficiency. IGEL OS and Lenovo's efficient endpoint devices help reduce energy consumption, lower commuting emissions and optimize IT resources. This supports sustainable business practices while providing the scalability and flexibility required by financial organizations.
COST AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Maintaining hardware, software licenses, and human resources for IT can be a significant expenditure. Therefore, cost-effective and efficient resource management solutions are necessary.
SOLUTION
- Efficient Endpoint Management: IGEL's endpoint management solutions, integrated with Lenovo devices, provide centralized management capabilities. This allows financial organizations to streamline their IT resources, reducing the time and effort required for hardware and software management. IT administrators can easily deploy, configure, and update endpoints, optimizing resource allocation and reducing costs associated with manual management processes.
- Cost Savings: By leveraging IGEL OS on Lenovo devices, financial organizations can achieve cost savings in multiple ways. IGEL OS is a modular and tamper-resistant operating system, allowing organizations to repurpose existing hardware and extend the lifespan of their endpoints. This reduces the need for frequent hardware upgrades, resulting in significant cost savings. Additionally, the centralized management capabilities of IGEL and Lenovo enable efficient license management, ensuring compliance and avoiding unnecessary expenses.
- Enhanced Security: IGEL's software solutions prioritize security, offering robust features such as secure boot, encryption, and multi-factor authentication. Paired with Lenovo's hardware security features, such as ThinkShield and ThinkShutter, financial organizations can ensure the protection of sensitive data and mitigate the risk of security breaches. This reduces the potential financial impact of security incidents and avoids costly remediation efforts.
- Resource Optimization: IGEL OS and Lenovo devices enable resource optimization in the financial industry. The integration of IGEL's software with Lenovo's hardware allows for the efficient utilization of IT resources, minimizing the need for excessive hardware investments. Additionally, the compatibility of IGEL OS with various cloud platforms enables financial organizations to leverage cloud resources effectively, optimizing scalability and reducing infrastructure costs.
- Streamlined Updates and Troubleshooting: IGEL's centralized management solutions, combined with Lenovo's devices, simplify the process of deploying updates and troubleshooting endpoints. IT administrators can push out updates and patches to endpoints efficiently, ensuring that all devices are updated with the latest software versions. This reduces the time and effort required for manual updates and minimizes disruptions caused by outdated software.
COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE
Many financial organizations have complex IT infrastructures due to mergers, acquisitions, or legacy systems. Managing these complexities can be a massive challenge for the IT department.
SOLUTION
- Unified Endpoint Management: IGEL's endpoint management solutions, integrated with Lenovo devices, offer centralized and unified management capabilities. This allows financial organizations to manage and control their diverse endpoints, including those resulting from mergers, acquisitions, or legacy systems. The ability to manage endpoints from a single platform simplifies the complexity of the IT infrastructure, ensuring consistent performance, security, and updates across all devices.
- Seamless Integration: The partnership between IGEL and Lenovo enables seamless integration of hardware and software solutions. IGEL's software-driven endpoint solutions and Lenovo's hardware excellence provide a reliable and user-friendly solution for managing complex IT infrastructures. This integration ensures compatibility and interoperability, allowing organizations to leverage their existing hardware investments while benefiting from IGEL's endpoint management capabilities.
- Standardization and Simplification: IGEL allows organizations to standardize their endpoint devices. By converting existing endpoints to IGEL OS, financial organizations can simplify their IT infrastructure and reduce the complexity associated with managing different hardware and software configurations. This standardization streamlines management processes, reduces costs, and improves overall efficiency.
- Scalability and Flexibility: IGEL and Lenovo's collaboration offers scalability and flexibility to financial organizations with complex IT infrastructures. IGEL's software supports multiple cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure, Citrix, VMware, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This compatibility allows organizations to leverage their existing cloud investments and easily scale their IT resources based on business growth and changing requirements. It provides the flexibility needed to adapt to the evolving needs of complex infrastructures.
- Enhanced Security and Compliance: IGEL's solutions prioritize security and compliance, addressing the challenges associated with complex infrastructures. Features such as secure boot, encryption, multi-factor authentication, and secure shadowing help safeguard endpoints and protect against data breaches. By partnering with IGEL, Lenovo can offer comprehensive endpoint management solutions that align with the evolving security needs of financial organizations.
- Is it difficult for you to control which apps & data employees/customer can and cannot access?
- If you use virtual desktops, how do you stay current with the latest client software from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft?
- What solutions are you using for single sign-on and multi-factor authentication? How do you ensure staying current with the latest SSO/MFA products?
- Are your employees demanding mobile/work-from-home options?
- How do you ensure business continuity in case of crisis situations?
- Do you need support and stay current with a wide range of displays and peripherals?
Based on the end-user, find Primary Challenges and how IGEL and Lenovo can improve their working lives.
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IT Team:
IT Director or VP of IT and staff, including endpoint administrator(s)
- Difficult to protect the organization from malware/ ransomware
- Managing and controlling of-network at-home or mobile workers or working in branches
- Responsible for adhering to client information confidentiality mandates like GDPR
- Shrinking or static IT budget
- Economic and disruption burden of regular endpoint hardware refreshes
- Lots of time wasted configuring and maintaining fat client endpoints
- Too many trouble tickets from unhappy end-users
- Onboarding service
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Shared Workplace
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Use small, efficient, cost-effective thin clients
- AIT and OS12 Insight Service
- App and Services HUB
- 125+ IGEL Ready integrations
- More secure endpoints, reduced malware exposure
- Offer choice of preferred endpoint devices
- More effective end-users (Insight Service)
- Less end-user IT dependency
- Use energy-efficient thin clients
- Self-service kiosks with good performance and zero trouble tickets
- Excellent insight into remote users and devices
- Strong troubleshooting and helpdesk support for home/remote staff
Banking Organization:
CIO and C-level Exec Team
- Constant threat of malware/ransomware
- Budget and staffing management, always need to “do more with less”
- Need to make most effective, efficient use of cloud technologies, and migrating to the cloud
- Must lower carbon footprint and be a good global energy conservation contributor
- Onboarding service
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Shared Workplace
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Energy-efficient endpoints, greater IT efficiency, OS12 Insight Service
- Reduced threat of malware/ransomware
- Easier to maintain GDPR and other compliance
- Reduced HW CAPEX as people use energy-efficient devices with extended life
- Reduced OPEX
- Happier, more productive end-users
- Lower carbon footprint
- Faster and easier M&A transactions
Employee at Bank Counter
People and/or process at bank counters.
- Idle time logging into admin/ banking system & other key apps
- Peripheral compatibility issues
- New HW replacement downtime
- Endpoint device outdated and slow or disruption of hardware refresh
- Angry customers unhappy with wait
- Fast onboarding
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Support of fingerprint scanner & digital signage devices
- Shared Workplace
- Self-service for app updates
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Fast and easy onboarding
- Fast & reliable multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Easily switch between endpoint devices
- Fast & easy tech integrations
- Less HW refresh disruption
- Faster, more efficient customer processing
Consultant:
People who advise and conduct individual customer discussions
- Not able to work at home or use personal device(s) per security and compliance
- Idle time logging into admin/ banking system & other key apps
- New HW replacement downtime
- Peripheral compatibility issues
- Multi-cloud SSO
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Self-service for app updates
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Fast and easy onboarding
- Fast & reliable multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Fast & easy tech integrations
- Less HW refresh disruption
- Faster, more efficient customer processing
Trader:
Employees who buy and sell stocks and bonds
- Idle time logging into admin/ banking system & other key apps
- Peripheral compatibility issues
- New HW replacement downtime
- Endpoint device slow or disruption of hardware refresh
- Network delays unacceptable
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Support up to 8 displays
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Self-service for app updates
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Support of latest endpoint devices
- Excellent performance and support of latest endpoint devices
- Fast & reliable multi-cloud SSO
- Fast & easy tech integrations
- Less HW refresh disruption
Back Office:
Employees who handle requests and contracts, next step to consultant
- Restrictions in work from home or use personal device(s) per security and compliance
- Idle time logging into admin/ banking system & other key apps
- New HW replacement downtime
- Peripheral compatibility issues
- Desktop sharing
- Onboarding service
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Fast onboarding
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- HW platform independent
- BYOD
- Work from home scenario
- Fast and easy onboarding
- Fast & reliable multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- ICG for remote work
- Shared Workplace
- Support of context and control solutions
- Fast & easy tech integrations
- Less HW refresh disruption
- Faster, more efficient customer processing
Hot Line / Call Center
Call center employees who handle urgent telephone inquiries
- Need to work from anywhere
- Must support BYOD
- Desktop sharing
- Idle time logging into admin/ banking system & other key apps
- Peripheral compatibility issues
- Angry customers unhappy with wait
- Onboarding service
- Multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- Fast onboarding
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- HW platform independent
- BYOD
- Work from home scenario
- Fast and easy onboarding
- Fast & reliable multi-cloud SSO
- Self-service for app updates
- ICG
- Shared Workplace
- Support of context and control solutions
- Fast & easy tech integrations
- Less HW refresh disruption
- Faster, more efficient customer processing
Self Service Terminal
Grant access to special areas
- “Always on” access to banking system
- Only limited use allowed
- Touch functionality
- Card reader/bio scanner support
- Network delays unacceptable
- IGEL Ready with fast & easy tech integrations
- Fast and easy onboarding
- Less HW refresh disruption
Based on the audience, find Primary Challenges and how IGEL and Lenovo can improve their jobs.
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Engineer:
EUC Architect, Senior Technician, Systems Engineer, Consultant
- Difficult to protect the organization from malware/ ransomware
- Must enable and maintain work-from-anywhere
- Need to maintain high performance end-user experiences
- EUC products and technologies must easily integrate with existing and future products and technologies
- Endpoint strategy must be multi-cloud ready
- IGEL OS security: Linux, tiny attack surface, read-only, modular, chain of trust
- IGEL Ready & Day One integrations
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Use small, efficient, cost-effective thin clients
- 110+ IGEL Ready integrations
- Best route to the cloud: IGEL OS 12 with multi-cloud, SSO, fast onboarding, self-service app store, etc.
- More secure endpoints, reduced malware exposure
- Offer choice of preferred endpoint devices
- More effective end-users
- Less end-user dependency on IT
- Consistently excellent end-user experiences
- Confidence that IGEL OS is multi-cloud and cloud era ready – “future proof”
Manager
VP, Director, Senior Manager of EUC / Windows / Platforms
- Difficult to protect the organization from malware/ ransomware
- Managing and controlling off-network at-home or mobile workers
- Shrinking or static IT budget
- Economic and disruption burden of regular endpoint hardware refreshes
- Lots of time wasted configuring and maintaining fat client endpoints
- Too many trouble tickets from unhappy end-users
- IGEL OS security: Linux, tiny attack surface, read-only, modular, chain of trust
- Platform independent, use any x86-64 endpoints
- Ease and scalability of UMS
- Manage and control users anywhere with ICG without VPNs
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Use small, efficient, cost-effective thin clients
- 110+ IGEL Ready and Day One integrations
- Best route to the cloud: IGEL OS 12 with multi-cloud, SSO, fast onboarding, self-service app store, etc.
- More secure endpoints, reduced malware exposure
- Offer choice of preferred endpoint devices, easy M&A transactions
- Happier, more effective end-users
- Less end-user dependency on IT, many fewer trouble tickets
- Use energy-efficient thin clients
- Self-service kiosks with good performance
- Full mgmt & control of remote users and devices
- Strong troubleshooting and helpdesk support for home/remote staff
CIO
Member of C-level Exec Team
- Security: difficult to protect the organization from malware/ ransomware
- Managing and controlling off-network at-home or mobile workers
- Must adhere to patient information confidentiality mandates like HIPAA/GDPR
- Shrinking or static IT budget – must do more with less
- Must meet “green IT” sustainability goals
- Must take advantage of cloud technologies as makes sense – need to make sure EUC strategy is “cloud era ready”
- IGEL OS security: Linux, tiny attack surface, read-only, modular, chain of trust
- Platform independent, use any x86-64 endpoints
- Manage and control users anywhere with ICG without VPNs
- Extend endpoint HW life; improve performance & efficiency
- Best route to the cloud: IGEL OS 12 with multi-cloud, SSO, fast onboarding, self-service app store, etc.
- More secure endpoints, reduced malware exposure
- Broad choice of preferred endpoint devices, easy M&A transactions
- Full mgmt & control of remote users and devices
- Offer all end-users a great experience while increasing efficiency and lowering costs
- Confidence that IGEL OS is multi-cloud and cloud era ready – “future proof”
“We like the IGEL UMS because it is easy to configure and makes the management of our endpoint devices virtually hands-free for our IT team. Previous to IGEL, some of our processes were manual, and often required an on-site technician to troubleshoot or configure desktop clients. Now we can do this from one central location, which saves time and reduces costs.” ~ Marc Dell, Engineering Manager, Fulton Financial Corporation
IGEL helps 4,500 staff from Standard Life Assurance, part of Phoenix Group, to work from home | IGEL
Standard Life Assurance Case Study
…Office in a Box’ project completed in weeks, in light of COVID-19 thereby ensuring customer service responsiveness…
The bottom line is we delivered a two-year project in weeks. That’s because of IGEL OS, the ease of management of the whole environment, plus the hard work of our IT department and logistics teams. People have been able to work pretty much as normal offering the kind of customer service that our clients expect. It’s been fabulous.
SUMMARY
The customer
- Part of the Phoenix Group, Standard Life Assurance customers include individual savers, large UK employers, and independent financial advisors
- With its operational headquarters in Edinburgh, Phoenix Group, is a member of the FTSE100 Index and has 13.8 million policies and £323 billion of assets under administration
The challenge
- Deliver a Work from Home (WFH) solution quickly for the entire business in light of the Coronavirus pandemic
- How to manage the build, security and application delivery while deploying a standard endpoint for 4,500 staff
- Ensure the solution was easy for staff to set up and use
- IGEL OS – used to convert and repurpose Dell PCs and laptops which were sitting idle in the office
- IGEL Cloud Gateway
- IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS)
- IGEL UD Pocket
- Citrix Workspace
- Low OPEX cost to deliver the project – just 5 minutes to reflash each desktop
- Management of the entire WFH estate easy via IGEL UMS and IGEL Cloud Gateway
- Collaboration tools like Skype for Business offered because IGEL OS has built-in support for Citrix HDX
- A two-year project delivered in weeks such that customer service excellence has been maintained
- Simple for staff to access corporate applications, with hardware remaining at employees’ homes to provide a long-lasting WFH solution
Standard Life Assurance, part of the Phoenix Group, has empowered 4,500 staff in Scotland to efficiently work from home (WFH) due to the Coronavirus pandemic, by providing them with a complete desktop system – a project called ‘Office in a Box.’
Taking just weeks to roll out in full – an amazing achievement given the scale – the IT team has implemented an easy to use, secure and centrally managed solution utilising IGEL’s comprehensive suite of EUC technology. Staff then access their normal CRM applications to support customers.
With an operational headquarters in Edinburgh, Phoenix Group, is a member of the FTSE100 index and has 13.8 million policies and £323 billion of assets under administration.
Standard Life Assurance customers include individual savers, some of the largest employers in the UK as well as independent financial advisors. Most of its customer-facing operations teams are office-based and use desktop PCs with dual monitors to deal with everything from pension and investment queries to account administration. In response to the pandemic, it was vital to get the Edinburgh teams quickly set up to work effectively from home.
John Kerr, Senior Delivery Manager, IT Service Operations, Phoenix Group says, “Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. It was vital to us that we ensured continuity of service for our customers and ensured that all our teams were set up for success, to work from home. With normal large scale IT projects, we may take several months to agree requirements, review the market, build a solution and undertake operational and end-user testing. Responding to Coronavirus, we knew we had just weeks to be ready to ‘go live’ which is why we came up with the ‘Office in a Box’ idea.”
McVitie adds, “To facilitate our WFH deployment, IGEL Cloud Gateway is used, to connect and manage all the home-based devices not on our corporate network. We’ve used Cloud Gateway before so we knew the platform worked well and, in conjunction with IGEL OS, that’s why we were confident we could implement ‘Office in a Box’ so fast and reliably for the business.”
Delivering WFH also highlighted that some colleagues didn’t have fast enough broadband to underpin a stable service. For those needing it, a dongle providing 4G mobile broadband was also provided.
IGEL OS has delivered immediate benefits
- This was a cost effective and fast solution. It avoided buying new laptop or PC hardware to deliver WFH, meaning the solution could be put in place quickly. IGEL OS has been an inexpensive way to repurpose existing PCs – equipment which employees are familiar with and comfortable using, too. They were able to just plug in and turn their PC on at home, login and can get on and work as normal, without requiring extensive training and support.
- The OPEX cost to deliver the project was also low. Many man hours have been saved as it takes just five minutes to reflash each desktop and configure the security settings. It meant equipment could be delivered to staff really quickly.
- IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) is used to manage everything, providing visibility about who’s logged in and, if there are subsequent system changes, this is done easily via IGEL UMS and IGEL Cloud Gateway.
- Collaboration tools like Skype for Business are also offered, because IGEL OS has built-in support for Citrix HDX – the display protocol required to stream HD film and audio over a network.
McVitie adds, “IGEL is also assisting us from an ongoing business resilience perspective. We work with a third-party workspace supplier who provide physical desktops, chairs, phones and shared PCs for business continuity purposes. IGEL’s UD Pocket is a simple solution – which comes on a thumb size USB drive – to get around the security issues of using shared equipment. In the event of an outage, we provide colleagues with a UD Pocket each which they insert into a PC, IGEL OS boots up directly, with a network connection then established to our datacenter, so Citrix can be accessed.”
Moving forward, ‘Office in Box’ hardware will remain with employees, irrespective of whether they work at home in the future or come into the office, they’ll have access to the same applications.
Kerr says, “The bottom line is we delivered a two-year project in weeks. That’s because of IGEL OS, the ease of management of the whole environment, plus the hard work of our IT department and logistics teams. People have been able to work pretty much as normal offering the kind of customer service that our clients expect. It’s been fabulous.”
Ken Dougan, IGEL’s Regional Sales Manager for Scotland, says, “The whole idea behind delivering an IGEL OS-powered PC was simplicity – the user can’t get anything wrong. They don’t have to worry about installing Citrix, thinking about what version they have and there’s nothing to break either because all the endpoint does is present them with a familiar login screen.”
Title: Manage and secure your cloud-connected Devices with Lenovo and IGEL
Dear [Prospect],
We recommend Lenovo powered by IGEL as a solution for your organization. IGEL is the best operating system for endpoints connecting to the cloud, with built-in security and data compliance. Lenovo and IGEL offer a total solution for enterprise-class management, supporting the ecosystem of solutions needed to keep your users productive, and secure, wherever they are, all without a VPN.
In addition, IGEL OS offers several benefits specifically relevant to the financial sector, including:
- Security and compliance: IGEL OS is modular and tamper resistant, at its heart, it is a Read Only OS that incorporates a "chain of trust" to verify the boot-up to Application sequence. IGEL also offers secure shadowing and central management through the IGEL Cloud Gateway and Universal Management Suite.
- Mergers, acquisitions, and collaboration: IGEL OS streamlines onboarding and provides a consistent end-user experience during mergers, acquisitions, and other disruptions. It's flexible and supports multiple protocols, helping accelerate technology adoption for business continuity.
- Simplified central management: The IGEL UMS and ICG centralize endpoint management and control, allowing for easy endpoint updates and extensive support for third party vendors and troubleshooting capabilities. The Shared Workplace functionality allows for user-dependent configuration based on setting profiles.
We believe that Lenovo powered by IGEL is an excellent solution for organizations in the financial sector looking to improve security, management, and efficiency. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any further questions or to discuss how this solution can benefit your organization.
Sincerely, [Your Name]
Title: User Experience AND Security and Management - Don’t Compromise!
Hi NAME,
Focused on providing a total solution, Lenovo has rounded out its offering by partnering with leaders in this space, such as IGEL, the very best OS for endpoints connecting to the Cloud. As IGEL is designed for the Cloud, security and data compliance are built right in. Enterprise-class management can support the ecosystem of solutions required to keep your users productive, regardless of where they are, securely without needing a VPN.
Unified Communications is an integral part of this ecosystem; For many organizations, it is the primary means of collaboration. However, due to the heavy resource requirements needed to support these applications, virtual desktops from a private or public cloud have been problematic—both from a user experience and an economic point of view.
IGEL has become the only non-windows OS to be certified and supported by Microsoft to deliver an Optimized TEAMS experience from AVD and CloudPC. This means that regardless of whether you use TEAMS, Zoom, or WebEx provided by Microsoft, Citrix, or VMware, we can utilize the abundant resource from the Lenovo Cloud Client and not from the Cloud. This has significant benefits:
- USER EXPERIENCE - By offloading the resource utilization and video and audio rendering to the endpoints, user experience goes way up.
- DENSITY - As the CPU/RAM load at the virtual desktop or session host is reduced, it increases the density of desktop images.
- COST - Higher density on multi-user instances requires fewer instances running, directly leading to lower workloads costs.
Let’s set a time to talk about your Cloud Connected strategy and how Lenovo and IGEL can help you accomplish your goals.