See how the IT Force Desktop Virtualization solution benefits Mercury Engineering.

1. CITRIX CASE STUDY
Mercury
engineering
Citrix saves €500,000 per annum
for Mercury Engineering
Background
Mercury Engineering is a world-class
Irish company specialising in mechanical
engineering, engineering management
and information technology services
for the construction industry. Recent
projects include Dublin Airport’s Terminal
2 and the Aviva Stadium. It also supplied
the cooling and air conditioning system for
a 500 seat showcase stadium which was
an integral part of Qatar’s presentation to
secure the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The need
Pictured at Mercury Engineering’s head office in Dublin, discussing the benefits of desktop
Mercury Engineering supports 530
virtualisation for a global workforce, are Niall Gilmore, Country Manager, Citrix; Derek Mizak,
Group IT Manager, Mercury Engineering, and Joe O’Reilly, Head of IT Contracting, IT Force. users and 800 client machines on three
continents. It identified that it could no
longer effectively support, integrate and
efficiently manage projects in diverse and
often geographically remote environments
based on its existing network. This was
the impetus behind Mercury Engineering’s
decision to implement Citrix XenDesktop
and Branch Repeaters.

2. The Solution
BenefiTS
IT Force implemented the virtualisation
solution for Mercury Engineering Citrix XenDesktop serves
and provided Citrix XenDesktop and applications to 800
Branch Repeaters to keep the 530 client machines on three
users worldwide connected to critical continents
applications.
The whole solution has
Citrix XenDesktop provides high saved Mercury Engineering
performance access to applications up to €500,000 per annum
around the clock, no matter where
Mercury Engineering’s employees “We also see from the IT department System to pay for itself in
are based. It optimises the groups IT and central support units that they are under a year
resources and ensures effective controls able to support a much larger user pool
at all times thus integrating the global in much more remote regions. All of this Citrix Branch Repeaters
organisation and keeping costs down. together marks Citrix XenDesktop as a accelerate and optimise
cost saving tool.” desktops and applications
Every part of Mercury Engineering’s
business is managed through its ERP As employees are based across three
system, from construction jobs, to finance, continents they often work in very different
procurement and HR. This system is time zones to head office. For those based
delivered to all Mercury Engineering at the head office in Ireland, being able
employees through Citrix XenDesktop. to work remotely in the evenings has
given them great flexibility. They can now
Citrix XenDesktop allows Mercury communicate effectively and provide correct
Engineering to rapidly deploy any project, information to employees in other countries,
in any region, and have information whenever it is needed. Without Citrix
flowing almost immediately from when XenDesktop this would not be possible.
the engineers arrive on site. All essential
applications are centrally managed and Conclusion
accessed by users globally, with the same Derek Mizak, IT manager, Mercury
experience as if they were on the local Engineering said “We needed to be able to
network. standardise the quality of service for all our
users, no matter where they are based.
Using Citrix Branch Repeaters Mercury
Engineering can accelerate and optimise “Citrix XenDesktop and Branch Repeaters
all desktops and applications delivered deliver agility so that we can complete
to its remote users around the world. projects successfully, on budget and
As it includes proven WAN optimisation on time. They provide all our employees
technology it minimises the impact of with access to the information they need,
latency on application performance and when they need it and in the manner in
maximises WAN capacity. which they need it wherever in the world
they may be.”
With the implementation of Citrix
technology this has saved Mercury Joe O’Reilly, IT Force implemented the
Engineering up to €500,000 per annum Citrix solution, “Before Mercury upgraded,
and is expected to pay for itself in under its systems ran relatively slowly. This
a year. Savings include €150,000 in challenge varied by locations, but in some,
support costs, as everything is centrally it was painstakingly slow and this made
supported from one location; network it very difficult for the engineers to work
savings of €200,000 with the introduction efficiently. Now remote users have the
of Citrix Branch Repeaters; and power exact same experience when they log onto Contact Details
savings from implementing virtualisation their desktops as users in head office, IT Force
technology of around €70,000 per which in turn makes them more effective.” T: +353 (0) 1 4109 777
annum.
E: info@itforce.ie
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Mercury Engineering commented, “The
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flexibility of Citrix XenDesktop has huge
advantages for us as it allows us to report
immediately on the progress of projects. Citrix is distributed in
Ireland by DataSolutions
It also facilitates effective deployment on
projects which in turn leads to efficiencies
across the projects.