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Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server. From then on, the 
user can go anywhere in the system in the same Citrix 
session, and does not have to log in again.” 
• “With easy to use HP Thin Clients, workers in branches 
can concentrate on their job, which is selling products 
to customers, not doing PC maintenance. Before, they 
had to worry about application installation, backups, 
and all that technical stuff. Now they don’t!” 
“We chose HP on the basis of the 
performance of HP BladeSystem servers 
running Citrix, the power of the HP Thin 
Client technology, and our previous good 
experience with HP products and service.” 
– Lahouari Bouhjar, System Architect and Branch of Tomorrow 
Project Manager, Dexia Bank 
• Before we had technicians going to the branches. Now 
if there is a problem with a Thin Client, someone 
unplugs it and plugs in another one…that’s it. No tech 
visit, no down time.” 
• “When we receive the Thin Client it is ready for us to 
do a few settings and plug and play.” HP Services pre-
stages the Thin Clients, delivering them with the 
Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system and, the 
Citrix client software installed, along with other specific 
components and changes required by Dexia on the 
standard HP XPe image. 
HP Infrastructure pays excellent rate of return 
The Branch of Tomorrow project has already delivered 
hard savings in terms of reduced support costs, and Dexia 
anticipates further savings in the future. Bouhjar reports: 
• “Thin Clients have no fans and no disks, which are the 
two largest sources of problems for PCs. Therefore we 
expect a large reduction in the number of problems.” 
Calls from the branches to the internal Dexia Help desk 
will decrease substantially, allowing Dexia to reduce 
Help desk staff. 
• “In the past, if a server went down it was usually down 
for hours. The resiliency and redundancy built into the 
HP BladeSystem technology make these potential 
business continuity problems disappear.” 
• “We expect savings benefits in IT costs.” Because the 
infrastructure in the branches is now very simple, Dexia 
has re-negotiated their current contract and cut costs. 
When the current contract ends, the bank will negotiate 
an entirely new contract (with no severs in the 
branches). After that, Dexia anticipates savings that will 
allow them to invest in new functionalities in the 
branches -- without new budget. 
About Dexia Bank 
Dexia Bank was created in 1996 through the alliance of 
the two major European players in local public finance: 
Crédit Local in France and Crédit Communal in Belgium. 
Dexia was one of the first cross-border mergers in the 
European banking sector and, by 2005, was one of the 
top 15 banking groups in the Eurozone. Dexia operates in 
three principal markets: local public institutions, the retail 
market, and the financial market. In local public finance, 
the bank occupies a leading position on a world scale. In 
the retail market, Dexia is a first-class retail bank in 
Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, and now Turkey, offering 
a complete range of banking services to its domestic 
clientele. In the financial market, Dexia is a major player, 
through its joint venture with Royal Bank of Canada, and 
in the top 10 worldwide for fund administration.