Take It With You: Session Mobility and Wyse Thin Clients

A Wyse White Paper, June 2004

Easy access to information is not only expected in today’s work environment, it is essential for productivity. While wireless devices can assist, in many cases full-size displays and keyboards are required, or it is not possible to carry a mobile device at all times. In environments such as hospitals, factories, warehouses, and maintenance bays, it is common to have computing devices located at convenient access locations where appropriate applications are made available to multiple personnel, based on their log-in credentials. However, for the on-the-go worker, this creates the need not only to log on at each access point, but also to open the appropriate applications and files to get to where they left off during a previous session.

In the case of a hospital clinical environment, this is very much the case. A doctor or nurse may need to go through this process in every room they visit. At a VA hospital facility, it was determined that this process added an average of four minutes to every visit. Although it is tempting to leave applications open if the user is leaving for a short amount of time, it is important for security and privacy issues to ensure that the user closes their session before leaving.

The ideal solution would be for the user to have the ability to take a session with them, and pick up where they left off, whether they come back to that specific workstation or go to a different workstation. Wyse Technology has developed such a solution which leverages thin-client computing.