BMW Group Financial Services UK Selects Ericom Blaze(TM) to Improve Terminal Server 2003 Performance and User Productivity

DROITWICH, England, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericom, a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualisation and RDP acceleration solutions, announced today that BMW Group Financial Services UK, has chosen Ericom Blaze to improve the display performance of their Terminal Server based applications used by their call centre employees. Ericom Blaze addresses the usability and deployment challenges presented by slow, remote desktop connections by delivering a superior local PC-like experience and fast remote desktop connections at speeds up to 10 times that of RDP - across WANs and congested LANs.

BMW Group Financial Services UK, based in Hook, Hampshire, offers a wide range of options for financing the purchase of BMW and MINI vehicles to both private and corporate buyers. In addition, BMW Group Financial Services UK also offers a selection of insurance products to cover car, home and travel.

Ericom Managing Director for the UK, Ian Platt, commented, "We are delighted that BMW Group Financial Services UK has chosen Ericom Blaze as their solution for accelerating their RDP based infrastructure. Ericom Blaze is one of the most cost effective ways to address performance issues when attempting to deliver applications, PDFs and graphics across networks with high latency and low bandwidth. Ericom Blaze delivers a faster, more productive user experience."

Poor network performance due to latency and bandwidth restrictions impacts negatively both on the employee's experience and productivity, which ultimately results in user frustration and potential project failure.

    
    Ericom Blaze delivers:

    - A software only solution for accelerating RDP based network traffic
      across any network, such as LAN, WAN, Wireless, 3G, ADLS, GPRS
    - Integrates seamlessly into both Remote Desktop Services / Terminal
      Server and Virtual Desktop infrastructures
    - No minimum bandwidth requirement
    - Strengthens security with in-built SSL encryption
    - Ideal for PDFs, graphic rich documents, PowerPoint, Flash based 
      video etc.
    - Supports, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, CE and other mobile platforms

You can learn more about Ericom's secure remote access and virtual desktop solutions by visiting http://www.ericom.com

About Ericom Software

Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access and Virtualisation Solutions. Ericom has been helping organisations access enterprise business-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. With offices in the US, UK, EMEA, India and China, Ericom also has an extensive worldwide network of distributors and partners. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 7 million installations. For more information about Ericom and to evaluate the solution, please visit: http://www.ericom.com

    
    Contact:
    Ian Platt
    Ericom Software
    +44-0845-6443597
    Ian.platt@ericom.com
    www.ericom.com

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