There are many reasons telling you to vote for thin clients, most of the reasons is to save time and money, some relates to enviromental considerations like power consumption and noice . We have made a 10 point list which covers the most obvious reasons

Less Maintanance

Thin Clients dosen’t have hard disk or any other moving parts which reduces the hardware faults to close to nothing. With NEXTerminal the software has been designed to be simple and with easy management. This can reduce the time spend on maintanance/upgrades to less than 10 secons a terminal a year!

Longer lifetime

A PC is expected to have a lifetime of 3-4 years. NEXTerminals is expected to last 5-7 years. Combined with a lower cost this makes the Thin client twich as cheap compared with a PC intrastructure (terminal server costs included).

Less power consumption

NEXTerminals consist of “low frequency cpu and chipsets” that do not require as much power as PC’s, Non moving parts also reduce power consumption. Thin clients can use as little as 8 watt an hour , and as a result pay its own investment back in power savings only.

Stable software & No downtime

The NEXTerminal software is writen to our hardware, and dosent consist of hundreds of drivers from different sources. The software is designed to do very few things. It is not possible to install extra softeware that can degrade the stability or performance. As a result you will get a very stable terminal with no downtime .

Better enviroment and zero noice

Have you ever entered a room with 30 PC’s running?, there is this “background noice” and it gets very hot bacause of the heat emmision from the PC’s. NEXTerminals make no sound and produces very little heat compared with a PC. This makes a better working enviroment ,and make the employes work more concentrated , faster and longer with out beeing tired or worn out during a workday. This gives the company a better bottom line and also saves the power used on aircoolers.

Fast application rollout

When you have NEXTerminals , you have a server based setup, as a result you will not have to set up applications on you PC’s anymore. Just install the application on the Server and NEXTerminal can access the application immediately. No more installting XYZ application 30 times on 30 pc’s.

And easy and fast upgrades

All upgrades are done centraly on the servers. This results in fast and easy upgrading schemes. It also makes the users run the same application everywhere reducing compatibility issues.

Better security

As with PC’s users tends to install unlicenced software , potential unsafe software , private banking software etc , they also tends to save data localy on the PC , which causes a security issue if the PC’s are stolen. Using NEXTerminals all these problems get solved , as it is not possible to install extra software on the terminal or store data localy.

Standard workplaces and roaming desktops.

You workplace/desktop will be equal between physical desktop/workplaces. You will allways be able to get you local desktop displayed on the screen nomatter where you are in the company ,as long as you have a terminal nearby. Roaming between desktops reduces the abount af physical workplaces needed and saves house rent , and / or makes “mission teams” easy to group together for a short period.

More safe and fast backup

With workstation spread all over the company inclusive remote locations backup becomes a problem. According to gartner group backup and maintanence make up 2/3 of the TCO costs. With NEXTerminal , incase of a terminal breakdown, the employee can continue on another terminal as if nothing was happened. No reinstallation and no data recovery is needed as the session, programs and data are safely stored on the central servers, greatly reducing TCO.

With VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) from Citrix ,VMware and IBM you will also be able to enjoy many of the advantages using thin clients. Powersavings , backups , hardware failures will all be reduced,- but the main thing is that the device you are sitting at, is always working.. and with NEXTerminal it is.