HDFC Bank Selected For Citrix 2009 Innovation Award

HDFC Bank, Emory Healthcare and Tesco have been announced as the finalists for the 2009 Citrix Innovation Award. These finalists were chosen for their innovative use of Citrix virtualisation and networking solutions to simplify their IT businesses. The three finalists will be recognised at the upcoming Citrix Synergy 2009 conference, to be held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas from May 4-7, 2009, for the way they used Citrix technology to simplify IT, transform their businesses and better serve users.

HDFC Bank’s Journey

HDFC Bank is India’s second largest private bank with more than 37,000 employees, 1,400 branches throughout India and approximately $3 billion in revenue.

HDFC Bank used Citrix solutions to cut system installation time at new branch locations to three working days from 10 working days, enabling more rapid branch expansion and a 30 percent reduction in IT expenditures. Using XenApp and Citrix NetScaler, key components of the Citrix Delivery Center, HDFC Bank is continuing to expand delivery of commercial banking services to India’s underserved geographical areas that lack traditional communications infrastructure.

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Specifically, the company used XenApp to deliver 45 core banking, treasury and cash management applications to branch employees. To load balance Web servers for high availability, and to optimise delivery of its Web applications, including the key Internet banking solution for customers, HDFC Bank installed NetScaler appliances. NetScaler was chosen for its ability to provide a high level of security and protection against Internet threats, a vital feature for customers sharing financial information.

Emory Healthcare Heals with IT

Emory Healthcare leveraged Citrix solutions to build an extremely agile IT environment that delivers an electronic patient medical record to doctors and nurses, while optimising IT staff and minimising expenses. Implementing the Citrix Delivery Center has enabled Emory Healthcare to cut server and application administration costs in half, deliver applications anywhere with great performance, reduce server count by 60 percent, and offer a personalised desktop to its 10,000 users in medical facilities across the USA.

Tesco Boosts Efficiency With IT

Tesco is Britain’s leading supermarket chain and the world’s third largest grocer with nearly 4,000 stores and 440,000 employees worldwide. Tesco needed to increase operational efficiency, and drive growth and expansion, while maintaining competitive pricing for shoppers already cash-strapped due to current economic conditions. To achieve this goal, Tesco instituted updates to its mission-critical Real Time Sales (RTS) systems, virtualising key business applications with XenServer.

Emory Healthcare, HDFC Bank and Tesco were chosen for their use of virtualisation and networking technologies as a way to gain competitive advantage, expand their businesses into new markets utilising state-of-the-art IT architectures. The 2009 Innovation Award winner will be announced live at Citrix Synergy 2009.