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Onan Corporation |
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Solution Categories
- Better internal communications
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Company Profile
Since its beginning in 1920, the Onan Corporation has been a
leading producer of energy generation and conversion equipment with
an established reputation for the quality and reliability of its
products. Onan Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cummins
Engine Company, Inc. of Columbus, Indiana. Cummins has annual
revenues in excess of $4.5 billion and is listed on the New York
Stock Exchange (NYSE: CUM). Cummins Engine Company is well known
throughout the world for its diesel engine products.
Business Situation
Onan Corporation, a leading producer of
energy generation and conversion equipment, had significant pains.
As a large corporation, application deployment was a daunting task: they had Oracle applications
that were not running properly on their Sun SCO Unix
workstations, and they had acquired another company and were faced
with trying to communicate to remote offices over narrow bandwidth. To
make things more complicated, hiring IS people to manage the remote sites
was an inefficient and costly solution at best.
Alto's Solution
Windows Terminal Server, in conjunction with Citrix
MetaFrame was the perfect solution. Alto approached the problem by conducting
a careful examination of Onan’s current situation and goals, then worked with
Onan senior management to create project constraints, timeincludes, and
budget considerations for the new system. Alto then installed
and configured Windows Terminal Server in conjunction with MetaFrame
Business Benefit
Onan is now able to communicate effectively
with remote locations using Thin-Client technology, and is saving
money because they don’t have the worry of upgrading their systems.
They can distribute and run 32-bit Windows applications even in their Unix
environment, using a Citrix ICA client. Distribution and maintenance of applications
to the remote offices is no problem because configuration, security, and
application access is handled from a single location, the
server at the main headquarters.
Technologies Used
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