Case Study: Israel Electric Corporation achieves faster Windows 7 migration and secure, standardized virtual desktops with Citrix

Large electric utility optimizes performance with Citrix virtualized desktops

Israel Electric Corporation, Israel’s primary electric utility with 13,500 employees serving over 2.5 million customers, needed to upgrade roughly 8,000 desktops to Windows 7 and Office 2010 while managing a chaotic environment of some 4,000 applications maintained locally. Inconsistent local administration produced poor desktop performance, cumbersome IT management and unreliable security patching—putting corporate data and service delivery at risk.

The company implemented Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and Receiver to deliver standardized virtual desktops, centrally managed application catalogs and secure remote access. The VDI rollout sped the Windows 7 migration, reduced applications to about 700, improved stability and performance, cut field IT service time by 50%, strengthened patch management, enabled widespread remote work (critical during severe weather), and simplified future upgrades such as CAD users and a move to 64-bit images.

Israel Electric Corporation

Shai Levi

Desktop Virtualization Project Manager