Thin clients provide lower ownership costs and offer improved manageability for the enterprise.
Thin clients are ideal for companies looking to improve application deployment, decrease hardware maintenance, simplify their client architecture, and reduce the strains on their IT staff. Hospitals, insurance agencies, airline reservation centers, and hotels are typical businesses that fall into this category. Companies with departments that utilize highly standardized computing tasks, like sales or service call centers, data entry departments, or technical support desks can realize substantial cost savings from thin clients. The computing power and flexibility of a PC is often unnecessary and potentially undesirable as end-users can reconfigure, loads local applications or otherwise tamper with the PCs settings. Educational institutions are examples of a typical concern that requires more computing resources and an ever-shrinking budget.