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The advantages of DeskFlex
 


Your programs, messaging tools and data are located on our servers in our Secure Technical Centre. Your work is always highly protected. Your work station does not use any of its own resources and you interact directly with the server remotely.
 

Inside your company:

Connect with a simple Internet connection.

No need for an internal server; you thus minimise acquisition, maintenance and energy costs. You keep the advantages of a standard local network.
 

Do you want to work from home and share data with your colleagues?

Connect simply via your Internet connection; there is no need for any other installation.
 

Are you on the move, abroad or at a customer’s site?

Connect via a xDSL, cable, WIFI, 3G or EDGE Internet connection from your laptop, Smartphone pocket PC or Netbook; your work environment is always at hand and completely secure.


Mobility: From one or more user accounts, your work environment is always at hand.

In a meeting

Using your laptop, Netbook, Smartphone, pocket PC, etc. connect to a WIFI, 3G, EDGE, or other Internet connection. Directly access the applications in your work environment, share your diary, receive and send e-mails, etc. Your contacts will have the information they need, directl

At home

Use your work environment all over the world with the same principles. Connect from your hotel or your customer's site with your 3G, wifi, xDSL, etc. connection; your virtual desktop is within reach! Have you lost your laptop or has it been stolen? Use another work station, connect to your DeskFlex remotely and continue to work as normal. With DeskFlex, your contracts and other sensitive documents are always protected and never lost in space.

Abroad

Utilisez votre environnement de travail partout dans le monde selon les mêmes principes. Connectez-vous depuis l'hôtel, chez vos clients à l'aide de votre connexion 3G, wifi, xDSL,… votre bureau virtuel est à portée de main ! Votre ordinateur portable a été égaré ou volé ? Utilisez un autre poste de travail, connectez-vous sur votre DeskFlex à distance, vous pourrez continuer à travailler. Avec DeskFlex, vos contrats et autres documents sensibles sont toujours protégés et ne se retrouvent pas égarés dans la nature.

A multi-site solution

With no additional investment, you can extend your activities to several sites. Equip your work stations, activate new DeskFlex users, set their privileges and the different applications to use so that each person can then access their environment. You keep all the advantages of a standard local network.


Security: Your work is always highly protected. Your environment is located on our servers in a highly secure technical room. When you do anything on DeskFlex, your data are automatically backed up, protected against IT viruses and intrusion attempts.

Backup

DeskFlex has an externalised backup system. Your data, applications, office programs, e-mails and file exchanges are automatically backed up.

Security of confidential data

Centralising data in one place provides the advantage of not having folders distributed over several PCs, which are often poorly protected and easily accessible by third parties. Data in your profile cannot be accessed by your colleagues. If you want to share data, you can do so with a sharing folder. This system offers the guarantee of total confidentiality.

Security against IT viruses

DeskFlex is protected against IT viruses. Your data are protected and you can work in total serenity.

Security against manipulation errors

To guarantee that your work environment runs optimally, we install a particular application so that any error of manipulation is reduced to the maximum!


Secure technical centre

Access security

Multiple anti-intrusion systems to protect your data: external protection of the site, surveillance cameras, metal covered doors and windows, access control by secure entrance card, etc.

Redundant electrical power supply

Two separate high-voltage electrical power supplies, battery backup (UPS) and backup generators guarantee your electrical power supply in all circumstances!

Air conditioning

Cooling cabinets fed by a system of iced water chilled by multiple redundant refrigerators, ventilation and fresh air intake controlled by hygrometry sensors guarantee longer life for your servers!

Fire protection

To stop any fire, a very powerful system using inert gas is sprayed directly onto the fire. An additional guarantee for your work environment!

Redundancy of Internet connections

Multiple broadband optical fibre inputs arriving in the technical room guarantee optimal accessibility of your work environment!


Parameter setting: The DeskFlex concept allows for customised parameters to be set. A new user can be created in just a few minutes; all compatible software can be added in just a few moments and available at once.

Installation

DeskFlex contains effective office automation software, a messaging solution and data volume from 5 to 20 GB, which can optionally be extended.

Software upgrades

With DeskFlex, the latest software versions are always available! We can adapt them to your profile at your request. Would you prefer to work with a previous version? We can adapt your profile to the software versions that you want to use.

You take on a new employee

We can create a profile in just a few minutes. We add the different applications and other sharing files according to your requirements. Your employee is ready to get to work at once!

Data transfer

Is your data located on a local terminal, a removable medium or external hard drive? From your local terminal, you can copy your data to your work environment and vice-versa. If you want to share your data, we can quickly add a sharing file and administrate it with other people according to your requirements.

Back to the standard server

Do you want to go back to an internal server? We install all your DeskFlex user accounts on your new server. Migration takes place smoothly, and you keep your work environment with your data, applications, e-mails, software, etc.

 

Economic: TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in IT for a company is estimated taking into account several parameters.

Hardware

The advantage of DeskFlex is that the capacity of the local PC has little impact on its use. An older PC or a thin client is enough. The entire processing power is taken care of by the remote server. It is not necessary to continually invest in IT hardware to adapt to changing software. There is no need for a local server, which is a major financial saving: no server and no surrounding infrastructure (dedicated parts, network and electrical cabling, air conditioning, etc.).

Roll-out

As soon as the hardware factor is reduced, roll-out becomes much simpler. No particular local installation is required. Roll-out involves just a small company network with a simple Internet connection.

Maintenance

Reduced hardware equals reduced maintenance! No server interruptions for maintenance purposes. This represents a gain in terms of cost and productivity! With DeskFlex, work station maintenance is a thing of the past. Everything is managed on our servers, by us!

Save time

You will save time. Installation of applications on each work station, verification of updates, maintenance, licence inventory, backup verification, solving critical failures, etc.: these worries are all a thing of the past with DeskFlex, because we take care of everything! With DeskFlex, you concentrate on your core activities rather than on your IT equipment!


View the comparative study IT infrastructure costs


Ecological: simplification of work stations, pooling of servers and reduction of technicians’ trips all help to minimise energy consumption and to reduce CO2 emissions.

Servers are often under-used in companies. They use barely 20% of their capacities while generating a huge amount of heat, which in turn requires an air conditioning system.

With DeskFlex, you don’t need a server anymore because it is placed in our secure Technical Centre. This means considerably less energy consumption for the server itself and less energy to cool the server.


Just one of our servers can host one hundred DeskFlex profiles and guarantee the confidentiality of the data of each one, along with the guarantee of optimal functioning.

Let’s take the example of car pooling: before, employees used to travel to work alone in their car. Today, to protect the environment and make savings, they travel four or five to a car.

This is the same for servers. If we consider that a small & medium company has 20 people, then 5 companies share the same server. One company shares a bit of the server with other companies. Each of these companies makes considerable energy savings and minimises the cost of investment of their IT infrastructures.

 

Compare your energy requirements
The table that opens when you click on the link below shows the energy requirements of one company with a classic IT infrastructure including a data server, a backup server, several classic computers and an air conditioning system. We have compared it to a DeskFlex structure made up of thin client appliances or laptops.

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As you can see, using DeskFlex with simplified work stations uses up to 95% less energy than a traditional IT infrastructure. If we project this principle on the scale of several companies, they will protect the environment and make energy savings, as well as saving on the cost of acquisition of their IT infrastructures.

Reduce technicians’ site trips

With the server pooling principle, actions are mainly carried out remotely. As with car pooling, if we project this principle to several companies, then technicians’ trips will be largely reduced. This implies a vast quantity less of CO2 rejected into the environment!

Give your hardware a second life

Some companies regularly have to change their work stations to benefit from the latest functionalities. However, a computer contains a number of toxic products (lead, mercury, etc.). It is very complex to recycle this material, and it can be a danger for our planet. With DeskFlex, you give your hardware a second life and help to protect the environment!

Lower your costs!

Estimation of the cost of a server in a company.

The table below takes the main costs observed when buying a server, its maintenance, its different licences, its backup power supply, its different backup systems, as well as charges for the Internet line and electricity. We have compared them to DeskFlex based on a 3-year amortization; your financial gain can reach up to 50%.

 

Added to this are the costs of a classic infrastructure:

Costs for a technical room for your server: air conditioning, rack, shelves, etc.

Security equipment: alarm system, secure entry, etc.

An increase in your insurance policy fees: theft, fire, etc.

 

Up to 85% savings on the acquisition of your work stations.

The purchase price of a traditional, low-end computer is around € 450 (operating system included), added to which are licences and maintenance costs.  

The purchase price of a thin client is around € 250. No particular licence has to be added as the software is included in your DeskFlex subscription. This is the same for maintenance.

The table below shows the costs observed when setting up a classic IT infrastructure, taking into account hardware acquisition, its maintenance and its energy consumption. We have compared this to the use of thin clients. Based on a 3-year amortization, your financial gain can reach up to 85%.

Save up to 50% on your new, complete infrastructure.

Based on all of these elements, compare the cost of a new, classic infrastructure with our solution.

 

Video presentation :

This video shows you the method to connect to your virtual office using the connection tool on a remote desktop
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