Introduction:

Calor Gas have spent over 85 years supplying energy to off-grid homes and businesses across the UK. Calor have sustainable energy available now, and working towards decarbonising rural Britain with simple and straight forward
energy solutions.

With so many years of providing IT services to the user base around the country, it meant that a number of key applications that had been developed over that time were still critical to the business but were not capable of being
installed on a modern desktop.

Utilising appCURE’s unique running capture capability, Calor was able to successfully move their applications to a new Citrix infrastructure supporting the latest versions and Citrix Cloud. By successfully moving to the new Citrix
platform, Calor were able to avoid redevelopment of some of the applications which would have been costly and time consuming. It also allowed the IT team to reduce the number of different operating systems that they maintained, which both reduces maintenance time but more importantly improves the security.

User experience and customer service

Once all the legacy applications were captured, they were tested on the new Citrix infrastructure. Not only did the applications work as well as on the legacy servers but they actually were faster! These key applications will
improve the customer service that Calor provides without the need for a complex redevelopment
Calor said “To go from applications that could not install on a modern Operating System to working seamlessly and faster was incredible to see”

Advantage of appCURE

appCURE Studio is unique because of its ‘running capture’ enabling a running application to be captured, packaged and provisioned using Microsoft (MS) standard formats, without the need for install media, documentation or specific application knowledge. With appCURE Studio an organisation can quickly move applications to new supported platforms on cloud, virtual or physical.

Calor believed that moving the applications to the new platform was impossible, but with the help of the Citrix technical team they were introduced to appCURE Studio

 The future

Calor continue their rollout of the Citrix platform and will look at appCURE to deliver more functionality around automation and managing the applications.

Customer support and services

The appCURE team have years of experience assessing, packaging and remediating applications across both server and desktops. Calor said “appCURE have been brilliant, we just would not have done this without them”