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To support the growth of the insurance business happens constantly. Bangkok Insurance is focused on the development of IT systems to date. With the introduction of new technologies that deploy with both internal and external system. To increase the efficiencyof the service, and facilitate clients in insurance quickly. Anddeveloped front-end IT system to support the needs of our customers in the future.
Bangkok Insurance Developed private cloud computing to accommodate future expansion
Bangkok Insurance Public Company Limited (Thailand ) began
operations on April 15, 2490 currently operates with a steady pace
to year 67 with registered capital of 760.5 million baht under the
management of Mr. Chai Sophonpanich Chairman and CEO with a
comprehensive range of insurance products of all types. Honor and
pride with quality guarantees by the company received “The First
Outstanding Non-Life Insurance Company of the Year 2011” award
from the Office of Insurance Commission. Company that have been
awarded “The First Outstanding Non-Life Insurance Company for
Three Consecutive Years” (2002-2004) award.
Challenges Now, insurance business are group of business that is highly
competitive in terms of product and new service model. To expand
new customer base coupled with keeping existing customers.
Moreover, the flood occurred in late 2554, making the most of
their attention to the insurance to secure their lives and property
even more. By competing with foreign insurance companies today,
and are expected to increase further after the ASEAN Economic
Community (AEC), which All these factors make the insurance
industry has to adapt to time. In particular, the introduction of new
technology into use in order to raise service standards and prepare
to support business growth in the future.
From various challenges that make Bangkok Insurance to provides
IT systems to support the expansion and coming fully. By looking
for new technology that can meet the challenges that exist. Be
efficient, flexible, able to manage easily and reasonable costs, so
the company decided to deploy a private cloud computing to
organization and implement VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure),
which is part of the private cloud.
The customer
Bangkok Insurance Public Company Limited (Thailand) Leaders in Thailand
,s non-life insurance business to operated for over
66 years.
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The challenge
The solution
Zero Client Solution and Storage Solution from Fujitsu System. • Zero Client workstations 500 units • 2- processor server PRIMERGY RX300S7 9 units • ETERNUS DX440S2 storage systems 70 terabytes
New technologies that can meet the demand for scaled IT systems and supports the business needs of both present and future. It will be powerful, flexible, easy to manage and reasonable cost.
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Dr. Aphisit Anantanatrat Assistant General Director.
Bangkok Insurance shown that virtual technology is applied to the
system that is appropriate to the needs of the organization in terms of
increased convenience to users. And enhance service levels to
customers. The choice of technologies like VDI (Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure) was used instead of the PC original concept of the
Zero Client makes employees can operate a wide range of mobility
and flexibility as the system behind the selected server. and storage
systems used in applications that help Bangkok Insurance can
cope with both the demands of modern applications that are prepared
for customer service. And more importantly, can accommodate
large database grows, the number of customers both old and new.
Including better performance in data analysis leading to decisions
based on the effectively information.
Technology and solution selection Virtual technology is not a new issue for large corporations. Bangkok
Insurance to bring these technologies to transform their IT
infrastructure for achieve maximum efficiency in the functioning of
the organization.
Bangkok Insurance has selected Zero Client solution that is VDI
infrastructure from Fujitsu and virtualization platform from VMWare,
which integrates dual-processor server PRIMERGY RX300S7 9 units
with storage systems ETERNUS DX440S2 70 terabytes for support
500 clients that will be able to monitor the performance through
the VMware virtual control system, which allows management
applications as well.
• Zero Client workstations 500 units
• 2-processor server PRIMERGY RX300S7 9 units
• ETERNUS DX440S2 storage systems 70 terabytes
Problems during the transformation As with any organization that faced roblems and barriers during
the IT transformation. Especially when adopting new technologies.
Bangkok Insurance was met with some trouble and frustration. But
the problem is not a technical problem or technology. It,s about
understanding the users who are not familiar with the new system.
Fujitsu, which was to help install the system, including consulting
in preparation for the users in the organization. It makes changes
to the user as needed.
Meet the Need Bangkok Insurance scrambling to change the system that the front
office staff use by VDI technologies with not only to adapt tools to
use to a Zero Client, but also look at ways of doing business in the
future that employees need to connect with customers outside the
workplace.Enabling those employees to access applications from
anywhere, at any time, so it is important.
After Bangkok Insurance switching to VDI solutions from Fujitsu
that makes now Bangkok Insurance to manage a client,s employees
are more efficient, flexible and cost reasonable. It also makes
employees begin to understand the concept of a virtual environment
and applied to actual practice.
It also enables Bangkok Insurance ready for the future. The
introduction of mobile devices, be it a smartphone ro tablet to
allow employees to work off-site to provide access to information
and applications from anywhere, anytime.
In the modern business world, The use of appropriate technology
to help streamline business operations smoothly. Bangkok Insurance
as well as the chosen to develop IT systems under private cloud
platform that can support the growth of both today and the future.
Because the availability will only cause success.
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VDI
VDI is that virtual technology to create a virtual workstation, instead of buying a new high performance computer. However, each user is unavailable to perform. Under the concept of server consolidation by virtual systems to reduce the amount of hardware and increase the utilized existing hardware. Each client will be modeled on a virtual infrastructure and the use of shared resources on the system, such as CPUs, memory and hard drive. Users can access their own resources through connection software, which will vary according to the use of each.