3,650 remote connections, live in seven days.
Get thousands of people working remotely - in a single week.
CLAAS builds agricultural machines and has grown from a 1913 family workshop into an international company with over 11,400 employees worldwide. When its workforce had to move home, CLAAS needed to connect 3,650 new remote employees across three continents and 165 locations in seven days. Wherever people worked, the connection had to be secure.
3,650 people, remote, fast
Thousands of employees suddenly needed secure access from home, all at once.
Spanning 165 locations
Sites across three continents - Germany, Hungary, the US, Russia, India and Argentina - had to be covered.
Secure by default
No matter where an employee worked, every new connection needed to be protected from day one.
All 3,650 connections, rolled out in one week.
CLAAS was already an Open Systems customer, having chosen it for the simplicity and high degree of standardization that comes with an experienced managed-services provider. That foundation paid off: the remote access gateways were activated on the existing Open Systems hardware appliances already installed at CLAAS locations in Germany, Hungary, the United States, Russia, India and Argentina.
Open Systems rolled out all the connections on time and in exactly one week - a stable, secure solution for remote connectivity, run for CLAAS so its lean IT team could stay focused on keeping the business moving.
Solutions in play
A global remote rollout, in a single week.
Rolling out secure remote access at this scale usually takes months. For CLAAS it took a week - thousands of people back online across three continents, all on one standardized platform.
Other customers, same pattern.
Different industries, one move: fewer people running more network and security, with the numbers to show for it.
90 sites in six months, run by two people.
MPLS replaced, one view across 62 countries.
Secure access for 8,000 staff, 90% less firefighting.
The thinking behind the move.
Why a standardized, managed platform - and getting Zero Trust right - is what lets a rollout like CLAAS's happen in days, not months.
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