CDU digitizes desktops with deskMate Cloud

The Christian Democratic Union is digitizing its employee workstations with the desktop-as-a-service product deskMate from the Stuttgart-based manufacturer Kivito GmbH.

Like commercial enterprises, political organizations must also be times of the corona pandemic, the smoothest possible operation of the Realize employees from home. In a pilot project Within a few days the jobs of the CDU Enzkreis/Pforzheim digitized and made available via cloud desktops.
Cloud desktops (also known as cloud PCs) are virtual desktops. PC workstations, which are located in the data center of the service provider Kivito and which can be accessed from anywhere and almost any end device. can be used.


Advantages for the CDU and its employees include

-secure encrypted access with multifactor authentication

-Sensitive data never leaves the secure data center

-Employees can securely access the CDU environment from private devices even when working from home

-Easy centralized management of all virtual workstations

The decision to use cloud desktops from the German manufacturer and provider Kivito GmbH has, according to the Internet / Alexander Kirbis, the CDU’s digitization commissioner, has several reasons. “With deskMate, both our decentralized, sometimes very small, and our of our district association, as well as large transnational organizational units can be mapped very well. Additionally subject to Kivito as a German manufacturer with German corporate and data location is subject to German laws and does not have to be American subsidiaries from access by other governments,” says Alexander Kirbis.

Cloud desktops are an important step towards digitalization within of the CDU organization, which will thus be more flexible, dynamic and can react more quickly to changes in the world of work. “Particularly in times of the Covid19 pandemic, our office was able to carry out all activities within the scope of Mobile Working to maintain our success,” adds Markus Bechtle, Managing Director of the CDU District Association Enzkreis/Pforzheim