As part of our agile strategy to untether users from their desks, assist with an upcoming office move and to better enable flexible working, I engaged Exponential-e to partner on a complete VDI project. We already had an outdated Citrix farm serving our 150-user Manchester office, so the first step was to upgrade this office to Citrix Workspace, leveraging Citrix Cloud and Exponential-e’s expertise. This was delivered at the end of 2019 before we moved on to our core London office, housing a further 300 users. This stage kicked off in early 2020, and we were around half-way through when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

Exponential-e stepped in and accelerated the rollout of the additional resource needed to bring this onstream at a pace that enabled each and every user to work from home on what was meant to be a test day. This test day was actually the last day we were all in the office. As a result of the pace of Exponential-e’s response, there has been no impact to our business or clients.