PXES Universal Linux Thin Client

Our goal in Cencosud was to achieve a total flexibility for the opening of new stores or operation centers, allowing a fast deployment of multiple work positions. In addition, Cencosud obtained an important reduction of its TCO mantaining -and even improving- the existing applications and resources.
PXES Enterprise Edition has been implemented in 30 stores of Easy (home improvement chain) and Jumbo (supermarket chain) with a server farm (Windows 2000) hosted in Argentina which provide a Windows 2000 desktop to approximately 2000 work positions deployed en different cities of both countries.
The cities where the solution is working are: Buenos Aires city roundabout (multiple locations), San Juan, Cordoba, Rosario, Santiago de Chile (multiple locations), Quilin, Temuco, Curico, Talca, Chillan, Los Angeles, Linares, Osorno.
The communications protocol is Microsoft Terminal Services using RDP.
The working applications are: ERP SAP, Business Warehouse from SAP, the Office suite, several proprietary applications of the stores, Internet Explorer.
The used communication links are transparent, 384 kbps. VPN and ISDN backups.
www.cencosud.com.ar / www.cencosud.cl

Results:
- Simplified Operation and Support.
- Increased systems availability.
- Reduction of Total Operative Costs and Investments (TCO)
- Lowered roll-out and upgrades time.
- Improved security.

Implementation details:

No. of stores / locations	30
No. of work positions	2,000
Countries	Argentina - Chile
Cities	More than 13
Communications Protocol	Microsoft Terminal Services using RDP
Applications	ERP SAP, Business Warehouse from SAP, Office suite, stores proprietary applications, Internet Explorer
Communications links	Transparent, 384 kbps

Garden currently boasts 18 hotels spread across the Balearic Islands, Tunis, and Malta. New destinations are expected to open soon in Andalusia, the Canaries, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. A total of thirty establishments are expected for 2005 in national and international locations, all with the high quality offered up to now by the Garden Brand.
In order to simplify the operations and management tasks of this complex network, Garden decided to implement a PXES EE based solution.
With PXES Enterprise Edition,15 geographic locations where consolidated: 7 in Mallorca, 4 in Menorca, 1 in Malta, 1 in Andalucia -under implementation-, 1 in Ibiza y 1 in Tunez. Every location includes hotel, restaurant and supermarket, and and average of 15 PC's.
Communications protocol: Microsoft RDP
Desktop: Windows 2003.
Applications: POS for supermarkets; Reception and different application for hotels, Restaurants administration.
www.gardenhotels.com / www.gardengrup.com.

Implementation details:

No. of stores / locations	15
No. of work positions	aprox. 15 per location
Countries	Spain - Malta - Tunisia
Cities	6
Communications Protocol	Microsoft RDP
Applications	POS for supermarket / Reception and other hotel applications / Restaurants' administration