Citrix Unveils Innovations at Citrix Synergy to Power the Future of Work
Secure Digital Workspace, New Cloud Services, Powerful Security and Analytics Deliver Greater Productivity,
Insight and Security
Organizations that harness the full potential of their people will drive business success that will power the future of work. According to a recent Oxford Economic Research study, executives who supported virtual work and
mobile business strategies outperformed their peers across a wide range of business metrics, including higher revenue growth and
profits, reduced expenses, increased employee retention and better customer satisfaction.1
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Executives who supported virtual work and mobile business strategies outperformed their peers across a wide range
of business metrics. (Graphic: Business Wire)
To help businesses drive transformational performance and greater employee engagement, Citrix is announcing new secure digital
workspace offerings at Citrix Synergy that will power the future of work, enabling customers to reimagine where and how work
happens – and what connected ‘things’ are involved.
New Citrix innovations include enhanced user experience capabilities in a unified, secure digital workspace; new mobile,
software-defined networking and analytics services in the Citrix Cloud and advanced document workflows. In addition, Citrix is introducing a new intelligent security framework geared to
secure and simplify access and control of the apps and data people need to work.
“The industry continues its rapid shift toward cloud and mobile-first strategies to boost workforce productivity and drive end
user satisfaction. In fact, recent IDC research shows that in 2019 enterprises will spend $2.1 trillion on technology and services
to implement and manage digital transformation initiatives,” said Robert Young, research director, IT Service Management and Client
Virtualization Software, IDC. “To help drive customer success in the future of work, Citrix has an opportunity to create
exceptional end user experiences while providing IT with empowering tools to drive change, processes and policies.”
Simplifying the User Experience to Fuel Productivity
Gartner says organizations currently using cloud services indicate they are allocating 40 percent of their IT budget to
cloud-related spending (including cloud-related services). Seventy-eight percent of these organizations plan to increase their
spending on cloud through 2017.2 This proliferation of cloud technologies is frustrating end users that must navigate
multiple cloud services, apps, and data sources as well as disparate access methods and credentials. Meanwhile, shadow IT increases
these challenges by adding even more unsanctioned apps and tools. This, in turn, increases service complexity and the risk of
security breaches as users circumvent IT standards.
To fuel productivity, Citrix is introducing an enhanced secure digital workspace user experience, which unifies access and management of mobile, SaaS, web and
Windows apps and documents, and consolidates access, control and workflows in one, easy-to-use solution. With a single sign-on
using any federated identity, employees gain simple, secure access to a seamless, consistent experience on any device. Unlike other
solutions, the Citrix secure digital workspace is designed to be contextual, ensuring employees have the optimal balance of
security, productivity and performance based on location, device, identity and other analytics.
The new workspace experience is also the only solution to include advanced content collaboration, information rights management
and business workflow capabilities. From directly within the secure digital workspace, users can create, edit and collaborate on
Office 365 online documents. They can then initiate a custom workflow and approval process with colleagues – all without leaving
the workspace, and without having to re-authenticate as they switch between SaaS applications.
Providing Enhanced Security and Analytics
As organizations plan for their future, security continues to be a top priority. A recent global survey focused on security and
IT professional found that 73 percent say data management, 76 percent say configuration management and 72 percent say app
management are the keys to reducing the security risk over the next two years in building a new IT infrastructure.3
The expanding and changing enterprise security perimeter – with new endpoints, locations, data sources, networks and clouds – is
creating the need for more intelligence in orchestrating security policies across this new security perimeter. In addition, IT
organizations need the ability to enforce those policies. Citrix addresses these evolving security needs with a new and unique
approach that’s built around the reality of how people work. This approach provides expanded controls to form the basis for a new
software-defined perimeter of the digital workspace, and complements other layers of defense in a multi-layer approach to security.
In addition, to provide security-focused offerings to help Citrix customers better protect their Citrix environments, Citrix
Consulting Services is formalizing a Security Practice.
Today, Citrix is unveiling Citrix Analytics, a new, holistic security and behavior analytics offering that extends the
capabilities of the proven Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) with new behavior detection, insights, and proactive risk
resolution capabilities. This new offering leverages machine learning. The new security solution analyzes data sets across the
Citrix product portfolio – XenApp/XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile, NetScaler and leverages machine learning algorithms and
application behavior anomaly detection technology to enable IT organizations to find and quickly troubleshoot application
infrastructure performance issues.
Meeting Customers Wherever They Are on Their Cloud Adoption Journey
Citrix Cloud continues to provide the cloud-based management plane across all Citrix technologies, integrating them with a
simple, consistent administrative experience. This empowers customers to easily combine the applications, data and tools needed to
work from the cloud and deliver them to people anywhere in secure, personalized and contextually relevant ways. Because Citrix
Cloud is designed to manage multi-cloud environments, customers who use it for virtual apps, desktops and data can place their
workloads on any public or hybrid cloud, or on any on-premises virtualized environment.
Citrix has accelerated innovation in the cloud, with the introduction of new services, features and capabilities
to build out this powerful workspace delivery model. These services include XenApp Essentials and XenDesktop Essentials that are native to Microsoft Azure, but managed from Citrix Cloud.
Additional Citrix Cloud services include XenMobile device management and app management and NetScaler Gateway Service, allowing customers to create a gateway-in-the-cloud, speeding and simplifying
implementation. In addition, Citrix Cloud offers integration with Azure Active Directory for administrators, internet of things (IoT) capabilities, and other new
services in our labs area.
Customers, like ÅF, are creating secure digital workspaces through Citrix Cloud. ÅF was founded in 1895 as The Southern Swedish
Steam Generator Association and has been at the forefront of engineering, energy, and industrial design ever since. The firm has
recently revealed how it uses gaming engine and virtual reality software to create 3-D, walk-through visualizations for clients on
building and infrastructure projects.
“By adopting a Citrix Cloud solution running workloads on Microsoft Azure, we have created a new way of working at ÅF.
This solution gives us the agility we need to respond to business needs, whether giving our engineers remote access
to using resource-intensive applications like CAD, or integrating the acquisition of a specialist consulting firm,”
said Mattias Jadesköld, innovation team leader, ÅF. “With Citrix Cloud, we have created the collaborative workplace that enables
our employees to work freely from anywhere on any device.”
“To be efficient and successful, organizations need to provide their people with a simple, unified and consistent user
experience on any device with intelligent security that’s designed to deliver the workspace of the future,” said PJ Hough, senior
vice president, product, Citrix. “To protect and sustain business operations, enterprises need powerful new security analytics that
predict potential risks and enable managers to proactively address them. Today, we are introducing new products and services that
our customers can use to embrace the future of work, increase productivity and tap into the latent potential of their
workforces.”
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1 Building the Digital Workplace: Oxford Economics Research, 2017
2 Gartner, Market Trends: Cloud Adoption Trends Favor Public Cloud With a Hybrid Twist, Ed Anderson, Sid Nag, August
4, 2016
3 The Need for a New IT Security Architecture: Ponemon Institute, 2017
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