The Berlin administrative authorities have around 75,000 PC workplaces which are very complicated to maintain due to a variety of non-homogeneous regional solutions. A standardized IT workplace (BerlinPC) should help establish a modern, secure, powerful and cost-efficient software, services and system architecture. BerlinPC is the central platform for running the special applications of each department. It enables location-independent access to applications and data, reduces the number of fault-prone interfaces and the amount effort expended on IT measures, and will make it easier to automate IT operations in the future.