Value of access: Revealing the success of Health Care giants

To adapt to the increasingly complex business environment and cope with future changes, enterprises must have collaborative, real-time, and agile business capabilities. With the deepening of Enterprise Informatization, "access capability" is becoming a key capability of enterprises. Only "connection" can maximize the value of enterprise information systems, in order to establish a sustainable competitive advantage for enterprises.

The Hong Kong dashun Group, an international healthcare giant, announced that its nationwide remote office system was officially put into use to address the increasingly complex remote access problems faced by group companies. It is reported that the system is built by www.kouton.com, a leading provider of remote access platform in China, using CTBS, the first remote access platform suite in China.

Customer requirements
As an internationally renowned health care product group, dashun attaches great importance to the informatization of enterprises. With the rapid expansion of business scale, the company has successively applied ERP, financial system, HR and other application software, and should gradually expand the enterprise information management to the sales branch in 18 provinces and municipalities, this greatly improves internal communication efficiency.
However, the CIO Mo manager of the Group Company was not relaxed. Although both the Headquarters and branch offices use the ERP system, they encounter problems during Remote use. On the one hand, the new medium and large ERP systems are the C/S model enterprise resource management software platform, it is designed for LAN and cannot be used remotely. Centralized data management cannot be implemented, and the ERP system cannot be effectively used, resulting in a great waste of company resources.
On the other hand, the higher-level departments cannot monitor the company's business data, financial status and human resources in real time due to the inability to centrally manage ERP business data, financial data, and HR, at the same time, business data, financial vulnerabilities and errors cannot be modified and remedied in real time, and the company's human resource scheduling is also greatly affected.
Furthermore, xinzhongda ERP is a typical fat client. Each client must have a client installed, and the client Configuration Requirements are high. The company's investment in computer maintenance and upgrade is huge.
Manager Mo felt a great deal of pressure when he spent a huge amount of money on the ERP system, but could not make full use of the value of ERP.
Traditional access methods cannot meet requirements

When looking for a remote access solution, Mo manager first considered using the ddnleased line, but after demonstration, he found that this technology had a series of shortcomings. The first phase of leased line cost investment and daily cost are high, especially for nationwide network deployment. In addition, leased lines have poor mobility and cannot be upgraded, and management costs are high. This double pressure leads to a high "total cost of ownership TCO )".

Another traditional solution is VPN. VPN uses the public network as a cheap bridge, eliminating the communication cost of using the leased line network. Using a virtual "channel" on the Internet, remote users can be securely connected to internal network resources and provide security and related features that were previously only available on the leased line network. However, traditional VPN is far from an ideal remote access policy, especially when you access application resources in a centralized manner.

First, the client must be configured for the Traditional VPN and various applications must be installed on the client. During enterprise applications, the client and data center must transmit various application data over the network, greatly increasing the network load. These data packets make the network egress of the data center crowded and occupy a large amount of bandwidth, and may even affect the normal use of enterprise internal applications, such as the OA system.

Second, Traditional VPN is not good at deploying shared application services or centralized databases to provide immediate and efficient access. Instead, each customer application must be purchased and installed on each remote machine. In addition, synchronous data update is usually uploaded from each remote site to the central site through insecure operations, which not only reduces the information reliability, but also wastes valuable bandwidth resources. The Traditional VPN needs to be configured for each client, greatly increasing the maintenance workload of the enterprise IT department.

Once again, although the Traditional VPN can meet the security problem of data transmission over the Internet, the data itself is distributed on laptops and other remote devices, it is difficult to achieve centralized management and at the same time, it is easy to lose and stolen. According to statistics, more than 1 million of laptops are lost or stolen every year, if a bank keeps its key business data and key applications on each PC, the bank will have to bear the resulting risks.

Fourth, the client uses a Traditional VPN to connect to the data center for remote office. If there is a dial-up Internet or the client does not have a fixed IP address, the VPN will assign a new IP address to overwrite the original IP address on the client machine, this client PC is part of the idc lan. In this way, all network resources of the client pc in the Internet are unavailable, such as network printers.
Fifth, compatibility issues. Traditional VPN software can only target VPN hardware of the same manufacturer and cannot be compatible with VPN products of other manufacturers. Enterprise Use and existing investment cannot be guaranteed. For example, when two companies or branches merge, if VPN products of different vendors are used, the VPN cannot run normally, and some VPN devices need to be purchased again.
In addition, VPN still has some problems, such as unexpected interruptions, failure to connect to the port, and failure to connect to the port in some places.
The disadvantages of traditional solutions make Mo manager difficult to choose. He urgently needs a solution that can be centrally managed to save the trouble of maintaining the client, and the price is within the acceptable range. After learning about it, he found a new solution based on the server computing model-communication technology CTBS remote access platform. Through further authentication, he was pleasantly surprised to find that this is the fundamental solution he was struggling to find.

The ultimate replacement for CTBS--VPN

Communication technology www.kouton.com) CTBS is an integrated access platform suite developed based on the server computing mode based on the advantages of similar products in the world based on the actual network conditions and application system status in China. The server computing mode is a computing mode for 100% installation, management, support, and execution of applications on the server. The application logic is displayed separately from the user interface, only keyboard information, mouse clicks, and screen updates are transmitted over the network. Client devices can access key applications in real time through servers, without rewriting or downloading applications or changing the existing network structure.
As a brand new integrated access solution, CTBS can solve many key issues that cannot be solved by VPN and become the ultimate replacement for VPN. Specifically, CTBS can easily solve the following three core problems of remote access for enterprises:
Deploy the application. CTBS can easily and quickly release applications. From office OA systems to financial software, CRM and ERP systems, the entire application deployment process can be greatly shortened.
Remote Office connection. It ensures that branches, plant workshops, remote warehouses, and partners can quickly and securely access key applications and information resources of the headquarters in real time, and easily add and expand new or remote access. CTBS solves network congestion, latency, and security risks once.
Mobile Office. You can access your office in any network connection mode anywhere. If you are on a business trip or on vacation outside China, you can obtain the desired information like a colleague working at the headquarters.

Solution value and customer evaluation

After strict tests and field tests on several major communication technology projects, manager Mo was very satisfied with the CTBS performance and decided to use it nationwide immediately.

Figure: Remote Access Solution Diagram

 
Although it is a big project connecting 10 provinces and 18 cities across the country, it is understood that the entire system is very simple to deploy, just need to set up a server in the data center of the headquarters, you can also install the new medium and large ERP systems. You do not need to install any clients or set up your computer in other places. You can easily access the ERP system through the WEB. The deployment of the entire project took less than two days.
It is reported that after implementation, the CTBS remote access platform has brought the following benefits to dashun group:
Fast deployment and implementation
The installation, configuration, and debugging work is simplified. You can quickly deploy ERP on the central CTBS server without installing each computer one by one. The implementation cycle is greatly shortened.
Access anytime, anywhere
Remote and travel staff can access the ERP system using any device, operating system, and Connection Methods
Efficient use of network bandwidth
In normal CTBS applications, each user occupies only about 20 kbps of bandwidth on average. Therefore, many users use Telephone Dialing or Internet to implement remote applications, achieving satisfactory speed and performance, saves a lot of leased line costs.
Reduce TCO total cost of ownership)
IT can effectively manage and support the U8 GUI on the server side, saving the time and energy of IT staff and saving the cost of on-site support. After verification, the CTBS solution system can save about 30% ~ 50%. Over time, this proportion will be higher.
Protect original investment
Make full use of existing devices and connection methods to provide high-performance ERP access and prolong the lifecycle 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 the system using effective control tools.
And supervise the normal work of all links.
A problem that had plagued him for a long time was solved in just two days. manager Mo seemed a little unbelievable and he was excited to say: "I did not expect such a complicated problem to have such a simple solution, and the access speed of CTBS is really too fast, even exceeding my expectation. We are currently developing overseas markets and will soon establish branches in Europe. We will also use CTBS to help us solve the problem of cross-country access ."