Communication with CTBS to help zhenke electronic cross-platform access

Italy zhenke Electronics Co., Ltd. is a well-known supplier of auto electronics and accessories. Its headquarters is in Rome, Italy, Asia Pacific is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, and a global procurement center in Yiwu, Zhejiang, the auto electronics accessories produced by the company sell well all over the world.

Challenges

In order to better manage the inventory, zhenke Electronics has applied Kingdee K/3 ERP system to the Asia Pacific headquarters in Shenzhen. However, Kingdee K/3 is an internal LAN application system, and the Italian headquarters and Yiwu procurement center cannot access it directly, and the company's resources cannot be shared, the business personnel of the Yiwu procurement center should regularly send the inventory and procurement data back to the servers of The Shenzhen Branch, and the Shenzhen headquarters should summarize the data and then regularly transmit the data to the Italian headquarters for decision-making. This traditional operation method not only greatly affects work efficiency, but also delays the decision-making cycle of the headquarters. With the increasingly fierce market competition, a good solution is urgently needed to completely reverse this passive situation.

Solution

In response to the above challenges, the company's CIO, Miss Elizabeth, demanded that the ideal solution be of the following values:

Convenient remote access. Ensure that branches and staff on business trips can access the applications at the headquarters anytime and anywhere to obtain the required information.
The access speed should be fast enough. To ensure that remote users can access applications in the headquarters at a fast speed, the access speed should be the same as that of applications in the Headquarters LAN.
You can access the Headquarters applications on any network. Even if you access the Internet through GPRS or CDMA mobile phones, you can access the Headquarters applications at a fast speed.

For this reason, Miss Elizabeth tried to adopt a VPN solution. At the beginning, we used a low-cost software VPN. However, during the test, we found that the network environment in China is very different from that in Italy. It not only has low bandwidth, but also has a headache for North-South communication, this greatly limits the performance of VPN. Software VPN could not solve the problem of remote access speed. Later, I turned to the hardware VPN solution, but found that the access speed of the hardware VPN was not ideal, and I had to install the client on each client, the maintenance work in the later stage is very complicated. It will be used at the Italian headquarters and involve transnational maintenance issues.

After giving up the VPN, Miss Elizabeth began to look at the CITRIX solution. Although the CITRIX solution solves the troubles of VPN speed and distributed deployment, it is still not the best solution in Miss Elizabeth's mind. Because CITRIX has a high price and complicated operations, the most important thing is that CITRIX cannot be applied on the Linux platform. Zhenke Electronics uses the Linux Redhat platform at its headquarters in Italy and the Windows 2003 server Platform at its headquarters in Shenzhen. cross-platform applications cannot be implemented if the CITRIX solution is used.

"Isn't there a solution that really fits our company ?" Miss Elizabeth was so anxious. At this moment, Miss Elizabeth's colleagues at the Shenzhen headquarters recommended the CTBS solution to him. "Almost all CITRIX functions are available and can be used across platforms." Ms. Elizabeth was deeply touched by this in her colleagues' recommendations and decided to test it.

During the test phase, the CTBS conducted a multi-point simultaneous operation test in a bandwidth environment of 28.8kbps, which not only ensured the normal operation of the application system across platforms, moreover, remote access is faster than Miss Elizabeth's expectation. To achieve this at such a low bandwidth, traditional solutions such as VPN are simply unimaginable.

After nearly rigorous tests, Miss Elizabeth believes that the CTBS remote access platform solution provided by communication technology is the most cost-effective and can best meet the company's specific requirements.

Network Environment

The communication CTBS platform is installed on an HP Server Pentium IIII2.0GHz/M memory) and the operating system is a Windows Server Enterprise Server;

1 Kingdee K/3 server;
20 General dedicated pc terminals without configuration requirements;
10 normal PCs with Linux Redhat Operating Systems
5 laptops for mobile office;
From dial-up access to leased line and other network environments

CTBS solution value of communication technology

Communication CTBS is China's first remote access platform Suite, which is recognized by many users as "a remote access solution tailored to Chinese users ". It helps zhenke electronics easily realize the following values:

Branch Remote Access
After communication with CTBS, The Kingdee K/3 system deployed by zhenke electronics is no longer limited to Shenzhen headquarters, Italy headquarters, Yiwu procurement center, and traveling staff, no matter how you access the Internet or how the client is configured, you can easily access the Headquarters application. There is no boundaries between communication.

Fast Access
The communication CTBS suite is used for remote access. Only the mouse and keyboard and screen update information are transmitted between networks. The bandwidth usage is less than 28.8 K/S and any network connection mode is supported.

Quick deployment
To communicate with CTBS, clients no longer need to install Kingdee K/3 clients. Client upgrades, patching, and other maintenance tasks are all completed on the CTBS server, greatly reducing the IT Department's workload, the response speed is improved.
　
High Security
Communication CTBS itself provides encrypted transmission and provides higher-level security protection.

Stable connection
The CTBS connection is very stable. Even if the connection is closed, the information of the disconnection point is set to be retained. After the next connection is successful, the data operation will not be affected.

High reliability
When a large customer involves multiple concurrent user applications, multiple CTBS servers can be used to achieve high performance and high reliability through network load balancing.

Reduce TCO total cost of ownership)
CTBS can effectively manage and support Kingdee K/3 on the server side, saving IT staff time and energy, and saving on-site support costs. After verification, the system adopting the CTBS solution can save about 50% in two years. This proportion will be higher as the time goes on.

Protect original investment
By using the communication CTBS, enterprises can make full use of existing devices and connection methods to provide high-performance Kingdee K/3 access, extending the life cycle of network and computer hardware.

Centralized system deployment and management
The system administrator can control the process, resources, and status of the entire system at a single point, and deploy and supervise the normal operation of all links through effective control tools.

Customer rating

"In the past, when VPN was used, our Italian headquarters and Yiwu procurement center could not access the K/3 system in Shenzhen at all. When the network was busy, they could not even save the next file for half an hour. After communication with CTBS, all these troubles no longer exist, and most importantly, communication with CTBS solves cross-platform usage problems that cannot be solved by other solutions, A real-time information sharing platform is built for us."
-- Mary Elizabeth, CIO of zhenke electronics, Italy

"In the past, business data in the China region was always unable to be delivered to me in time. It was only collected by the finance staff at the Shenzhen headquarters every month. I was unable to keep up with the latest information on this site. Communication CTBS adopts the real-time data aggregation operation mode, and all data is input on the server of the Shenzhen headquarters. Our Italian headquarters can access the data through the WEB at any time to get the latest information ."
-- Mariano Boccafoli, CEO of zhenke electronics, Italy