Citrix today announced customers who are empowering a mobile workforce
with Citrix
Workspace Suite™, which unites its market-leading virtualization,
mobility, networking and cloud services technologies to make it even
easier for people to work anywhere. Since the launch of Citrix Workspace
Suite at Citrix Synergy™ in May 2014, customers around the world have
embraced mobile workspaces, enabling thousands of people to gain
instant, secure access to all apps, desktops, data and services from any
device over any network. Citrix Workspace Suite addresses a critical
industry need for a comprehensive and secure solution that integrates
app and desktop virtualization, mobile app and device management,
enterprise file sharing, WAN optimization and secure access to enable
people to choose when, where and how work gets done.
Accelerated globalization and the rapid proliferation of devices and app
platforms has made mobility in the workplace both an expectation and a
necessity, driving dramatic changes in how IT organizations respond.
Today, with 61 percent of information workers working outside the office1
and using an average of three or more devices daily for work purposes2,
businesses are struggling to embrace business mobility. However,
mobility is not just about improving IT – 67 percent of
organizations state that leveraging mobile to improve their business’
ability to innovate is a high or critical priority3. Until
now, organizations have had to rely on disparate technologies to support
their desktop, mobile and app infrastructure, but standalone products
are no longer meeting the requirements for a comprehensive business
mobility strategy.
“Different jobs will require different tools, and a worker’s technology
toolkit might include some permutation of a PC, tablet, smartphone, or
even a wearable device,” wrote Forrester analyst Christian Kane in a
recent report titled, The Future Of Mobile Device Management4.
“A siloed management system that only works for mobile devices and not
PCs will make it harder to take an employee-centric rather than a
device-centric view.”
Citrix Workspace Suite brings together app, desktop, mobile and data
services to provide people with a personalized mobile workspace that
follows them no matter where they go, what device they use or how they
are connected. This unique combination of Citrix technologies provides a
comprehensive employee-centric unified management system for today’s
evolving mobile workforce. Businesses are already leveraging the power
of the industry’s most complete mobile workspace solution to simplify IT
and reduce costs, while achieving increased business agility:
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Large healthcare network saves half a million dollars. A large
hospital network faced three challenges: efficiently integrating
acquired organizations and physicians, managing its Electronic Medical
Records system across multiple hospitals and devices, and improving
patient care by allowing doctors access to records and internal
applications on any device while ensuring any technology solution
would help the hospital maintain its HIPAA compliance. They found
Citrix Workspace Suite was the ideal solution as it provided them a
single, flexible solution to meet all of their needs, while providing
a projected savings of $500k by 2017.
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Law enforcement agency goes from 0 to 60 in mobility. A law
enforcement agency needed to address the costly management and support
of their physical desktop and application environments, archaic
methods of file sharing (e.g., burning to DVD and sending via postal
service), and the reality that they needed to provide field workers
with mobile devices and access to data. While evaluating solutions
from Citrix and a competing vendor, they chose Citrix Workspace Suite
because it is a complete mobility solution incorporating desktop and
application delivery, secure data sharing and enterprise mobility
management that can be used with any device.
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Energy company goes beyond mobile device management to fully
embrace BYOD. A large natural gas producer had a single objective:
move away from corporate-issued Blackberries to fully embrace BYOD. To
do this, they needed a solution that had the security of Blackberry,
while being able to deliver all of the mobile, web, SaaS and Windows
apps their workforce needed. They found Citrix Workspace Suite, which
includes secure email and web clients, would enable them to deliver a
complete mobility strategy with app and desktop virtualization, mobile
application management and access to enterprise-grade native mobile
apps, all with a consistent user experience.
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Manufacturer uses mobile workspace infrastructure to future-proof
their growing business. A rapidly growing manufacturer had an
immediate need: they had recently expanded from two to four sites,
with more growth expected, and needed to centralize IT and share data
between locations. They also had an aging PC population, as well as a
growing number of mobile devices coming into the environment. Given
the scope of this project, they looked at multiple solutions, but
found most were too expensive and did not have the complete set of
functionality they needed to address their requirements. With Citrix
Workspace Suite, they were able to accomplish all of their goals:
centralize desktop and application management and delivery, securely
share large files across sites, support the increasing number of
mobile users and establish an infrastructure that will support their
future growth.
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virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to
enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility
through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant
access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over
any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of
innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With
annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at
more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally.
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1 Forrester Research Inc., Business Technographics
Application and Collaboration Workforce Survey, Q4 2013
2 Forbes.com, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/02/18/one-in-five-americans-work-from-home-numbers-seen-rising-over-60/
3 Forrester Research Inc., Business Technographics Mobility
Survey, Q2 2014
4 Forrester Research Inc., Brief: The Future of Mobile Device
Management, June 2014
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