AUDI AG is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium, technologically advanced cars. Worldwide, the group employs around 52,000 workers. Its strategic targets are supported by innovative IT technologies, and the group is currently adopting innovative concepts to ensure enhanced, cost-effective administration and maintenance for its 35,000 enterprise clients.
Challenge
- AUDI AG uses around 35,000 desktop PCs and notebooks. Since April 2007, these have gradually been phased out in favour of hardware incorporating Intel® Core™ 2 processor and Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology.
- The new hardware must be powerful enough to guarantee security of investment for the next three years.
- Network administration and maintenance for the 35,000 enterprise clients will be simplified thanks to remote manageability, in order to reduce desk-side visits and cut costs.
- The aims are enhanced data quality, since data can also be retrieved when PCs are powered off, efficient and centralized asset tracking with up-to-date information (PC configuration, software installed), and improved security functions.
Solution
- Hardware based on Intel® Core™ 2 processor and Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology, which support AUDI’s existing and future system administration software (currently Microsoft SMS* - Microsoft SCCM 2007* to be introduced from 2008).
- Additional functions offer optimised remote maintenance i.e. enhanced tracking of hard- and software assets in networked PCs.
- Intel® Core™ 2 processor and Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology offer comprehensive security functions to prevent attacks and protect critical data. The quarantine function enables virus-infected files to be isolated, thus protecting the network.
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