Central Server Farm for 17,000 Users at BARMER

challenge

With continuously increasing requirements as a service provider, Germany's largest health insurer BARMER was faced with the challenge of introducing a new, flexible application system, and opted for an SAP-based insurance solution. The existing infrastructure was not sufficiently equipped for the new application system and the provision to 17,000 users.

sepago`s tasks

• Implementation of the feasibility study
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Tender support
• Documentation
• Design of an innovative IT architecture based on Citrix Presentation Server
• Design of a printing concept
• Client strategy development
• Design of the operations concept
• Quality assurance
• Knowledge transfer

solution

Based on a quality-assured concept, sepago implemented an automated server farm for BARMER using Citrix technology. For the server setup, an installation process on a sepagoINSTALLER basis was implemented. This process permits each server to be installed and configured automatically, parameter-controlled and under consideration of the respective hardware – including all applications. With the large number of servers operated by BARMER, this constitutes a major simplification of the work.