Case Study: Bauli achieves simplified application management and secure mobile access with Citrix

Leading panettone producer Bauli beats complexity with Citrix solutions

Bauli S.p.A., a century-old Italian bakery group that sells millions of panettones, pandoros and croissants annually, grew rapidly through acquisitions to four manufacturing sites and 27 distribution centres. That expansion created a complex, hard-to-manage IT estate with difficult application installs and updates at remote depots, high network traffic from PC-based access, and rising demand for mobile working that was expensive and hard to secure.

Working with a Citrix partner, Bauli virtualised and centrally managed all applications using XenDesktop/XenApp, deployed Praim thin clients and XenMobile, and used NetScaler for secure remote access. The result: simplified IT with standardised desktop images, rapid onboarding of acquired employees, drastically reduced network traffic so depots can run on standard broadband, access to resource-intensive apps like SAP HANA across all sites, and secure, role‑based mobile access with no business data stored on devices—improving productivity and enabling further expansion.

Bauli

Pierangelo Chiappini

IT Systems Director