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Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company
(Arkansas Operation) Improves Productivity and ROI with its New Access Strategy
Second Largest P&C Insurer in Arkansas
Standardizes on Provision Networks Access Solutions
May 9th, 2006 – Washington, DC. Provision Networks, the global provider
of server-based access infrastructure solutions for the Microsoft (NASDAQ:
MSFT) Windows Terminal Server platform, today announced , that Southern Farm
Bureau Casualty Insurance Company’s Arkansas operation (SFBCIC) has deployed
the Provision Management Framework® for its enterprise application deployment,
provisioning and access.
The Provision Management Framework (PMF), Enterprise Edition is a full-featured
access infrastructure solution that leverages the Microsoft Windows Server 2003
platform, and delivers anywhere, anytime access to applications and network
resources. Enterprise features such as Seamless Windows, Application
Publishing, Load Balancing, Access Control, a Web Portal and an SSL Gateway
embrace the RDP protocol and enhance the deployment, manageability,
performance, and security of Terminal Services environments of all sizes.
As the second largest provider of property and casualty insurance in the state
of Arkansas, with 106 offices in 75 counties, supporting 381 agents and over
100 adjusters, SFBCIC was faced with the challenging task of supporting a wide
variety of users and computing environments needing access to corporate
applications and resources over low bandwidth and high latency connections.
“From previous experience, we knew that a server-based computing implementation
would achieve our goal of seamlessly connecting our dispersed user community,”
said Pat Kinnison, Network Server Administrator with SFBCIC.
SFBCIC implemented side-by-side proofs of concept utilizing Citrix MetaFrame
Presentation Server 4.0 and the Provision Management Framework, to deploy a
variety of applications including Mainframe access, Homeland Tracker and a
graphically intensive high resolution document imaging application. The
resulting outcome led the insurer to choose the Provision Networks solution,
and cited the following as the primary reasons:
- Ease of installation
- Better performance for LAN and WAN users
- Richness of features
- Outstanding support
- Printing flexibility and performance
- Appropriately priced
“We have been extremely pleased with the solution and are finding excellent
success,” continued Mr. Kinnison. “It just works. Even over low bandwidth
connections, users experience on-the-LAN results.”
About Provision Networks
Provision Networks is a global provider of server-based access infrastructure
provisioning, management, optimization and security. Provision Networks
solutions embrace and extend the Citrix MetaFrame® and Microsoft Terminal
Services platforms, delivering resilient and scalable on-demand access for
enterprises worldwide.
The Enterprise Edition of the Provision Management Framework® is
designed to extend the native (RDP) functionality of Windows Terminal Services
with important features such as Seamless Windows, Session-Sharing, Intelligent
Load Balancing, Application Publishing, a Web-based interface, and an
integrated SSL Gateway (RDP over SSL).
Included in the Enterprise Edition, the Provision Management
Framework, Standard Edition is a comprehensive access management solution
designed to improve and enhance the provisioning, performance, manageability,
and security of your terminal server access infrastructure.
In a single package, you get:
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Provide printing support for any client or network printer with a single
universal print driver; Print-IT®
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Allow users to compute in their own time zones, regardless of the server's time
zone; TimeZones-IT®
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Automate several time-consuming session configuration and lockdown tasks;
Manage-IT®
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Enforce granular firewall access rules and exercise schedule-aware application
execution control, all on a session-by-session basis, and without disrupting
corporate security policies; Block-IT®
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Enhance application compatibility by enabling single-user applications to
execute reliably in multi-user mode in a Terminal Server environment;
Redirect-IT®
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Enhance the mobility of an access infrastructure by allowing users to fully
synchronize their USB-based BlackBerry and Palm devices over RDP and ICA
connections; USB-IT®
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Achieve unprecedented logon speeds and stability levels of user profiles by
implementing new profile management techniques; MetaProfiles-IT®
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Improve application response times and expand overall server capacity by
streamlining and optimizing the use of CPU and virtual memory resources;
Max-IT®
With a world-class client list, comprised of some of the world’s
largest commercial enterprises, and government organizations, Provision
Networks is the most trusted name in access infrastructure management,
security, and optimization.
To learn more about Provision Networks and our enterprise access solutions,
please visit us at
www.ProvisionNetworks.com.
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