Virtual workspaces which stream desktop infrastructure to any location are changing the face of computing.
CEO Dominik Birgelen says his聽oneclick platform can solve the problem of accessing workplace systems remotely and save companies money.
Birgelen founded Zurich-based聽oneclick with CTO Mathias Meinke and CIO Florian Bodner.
He says the trio identified the problem of inefficient system and data access while working at enterprise-level firms in Germany such as IS4IT and Deutsche Telekom.
鈥淟arger businesses with locations across the world all have the same problems: how is it possible, without a lot of effort, to make data and applications accessible wherever you are?鈥� Birgelen told 老九品茶Cloud.
鈥渙neclick is a workspace in your browser which provides users with secure and mobile access to all applications and data.鈥�
The cloud-based nature of the technology means that there are no set-up costs, unlike desktop virtualisation, its traditional competitor.
鈥淭he classic approach of a VDI (desktop virtualisation) environment is to install the solutions locally and invest a lot of time in the set-up,鈥� explained Birgelen.
鈥淎s a cloud service,聽oneclick is instantly available to everybody who logs in and creates a virtual machine (VM). It鈥檚 very fast.
鈥淚t鈥檚 also possible with聽oneclick to work with single VMs, compared to shared environments, which would be the classic VDI approach.
鈥淭he big benefit there is that the single VMs can be switched off and turned on based on availability of the end user. If he or she is on holiday or in a meeting or on a flight then his or her dedicated single VM can be switched off and save a lot of costs.鈥�
Birgelen says the platform is extremely secure and 鈥渢he end user has no ability to install anything new in the workspace鈥�.
oneclick聽employs around 35 people in Zurich, its development base in Germany and account management bases in London and Florida.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 need much sales or marketing because we work with distributers and resellers. We manage to keep our workforce lean,鈥� he said.
鈥淚t is also difficult to find a good number of developers in Munich.鈥�
With seven-digit revenue, it seems that the future is bright: 鈥�
鈥淚n the coming years we are looking to achieve a worldwide footprint by finding partners and distributors in other areas of the world.鈥�