Situation Over 95 percent of Inacom's target environment is laptops, so it's no easy feat to manage secure remote access and communications. Inacom, a Fortune 500 systems integrator and e-business service provider, has about 12,000 employees. That's a lot of laptops, and a lot of remote employees. Adding to the challenge is the company's highly distributed environment, with employees based in over 66 locations worldwide, and often working on-site at client locations. The company relies on mobile and remote access technology to bring teams together quickly to collaborate on customer projects on-site.
Employees literally live and breathe with the customers' IT organization.
According to Walton, Windows 2000 delivers the platform Inacom needs, particularly the ability to rely on the Internet as a secure network. It's the life blood of our organization. The more information we can exchange rapidly, the better we can provide service to our customers. The ability to go from a dial-up connection to a network smoothly and quickly is also important. The advantages of the Windows 2000 operating system extend well beyond the realm of laptops.