Citrix Systems Case Study Sample

The Challenge: Securely delivering Oracle to brokers and co-manufacturers

Welch’s originally implemented Citrix Presentation Server™ for application delivery to remote employees. However, when the company embarked on a four-year project to replace its existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution with Oracle’s E-Business 11i Web application suite, it became clear that an expanded application delivery solution was needed.

“Our vision was to enable our 250 external brokers and co-manufacturers to work directly with the Oracle system to put in an order, get a packing list or print an invoice,” explained George Scangas, IT infrastructure manager. “We were concerned about data security and also efficiency, since we have a very small infrastructure staff of three. We wanted to avoid having to create VPN tunnels for all these users or having to publish Oracle externally.”

Welch’s IT staff also wanted to ensure exceptionally high availability, speed and reliability of the Oracle suite. The company was looking for a replacement to its outdated server load-balancing solution that could offer compression, caching, TCP offload and other sophisticated optimization technologies.