In this period of forced lockdown, many companies find themselves thinking about the need to reorganize work in ways they have never had to deal with before. After an initial emergency phase, when many had to reorganize in a hurry, customers are now thinking more seriously about how to redefine the way they work, with an eye on the future as well. Citrix, a leader in Application and Desktop Virtualization, has built over the years an ecosystem of solutions and platforms that can serve as the technology foundation for enabling smart working for their employees.
As countless experts on the subject have written, smart working is not just working from home. Smart working is a much more complex and complete concept: it is a way of working and of organizing a company that has to be understood and applied at every level of the organization. The right technology certainly has to be available, but at the same time the work itself must have been reorganized, for example around objectives, and management must be able to understand that people not being in the office does not necessarily mean they are less productive.
I consider myself more of a technology expert than a people-management one, so I will focus on what the solutions I work with every day can offer and how they can help you set up an environment that is truly ready for smart working.
To work remotely, staff need an IT environment that meets challenges such as these:
– being able to exchange documents with colleagues and with people outside the company;
– business applications that are always available and optimized;
– being able to access data and applications from any device (both corporate and BYOD);
– simple access to company resources;
On top of these requirements come the rules that corporate IT has to comply with, including:
– the need to deliver resources securely;
– guaranteed traceability and security of company data;
– the need to respond quickly to requests from the various business departments;
So it is important to focus on technologies and solutions that can actually meet all these needs. Citrix is considered a leader in the world of digital Workspaces/Workplaces and has a portfolio of solutions designed and engineered to meet all these needs: designed to be easy to use for any user, secure by design, integrated with each other and optimized to be used from anywhere and on any device.
In particular, Citrix’s portfolio includes these products:
– Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops: a solution for virtualizing corporate Applications and Desktops so they can be delivered securely to employees;
– Citrix Content Collaboration: a document exchange solution that lets a company track and “secure” the entire lifecycle of its business documents;
– Citrix Endpoint Management: a solution for managing corporate mobile devices, with the added ability to deliver secure business applications to them (on both corporate and personal devices);
– Citrix ADC: a network appliance for managing the delivery of company resources securely and with full control;
– Citrix Hypervisor: a hypervisor based on the Xen project, optimized for workloads specific to Desktop and Application virtualization;
– Citrix SD-WAN: a network appliance that optimizes the connection between a company’s different sites;
– Citrix Analytics: a Cloud solution, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, that constantly analyzes user activity and reacts promptly to actions considered anomalous;
All these products (plus others I haven’t listed), designed and optimized to work at their best together, make up a complete suite of solutions that is unmatched on the market. Together they form a true digital Workspace that lets users experience work in the real sense of smart working.
The most innovative solution Citrix offers the market today is called, fittingly, Citrix Workspace: the entire Citrix portfolio brought to the Cloud, and a further evolution of what Citrix solutions have made possible so far in their on-prem versions.
With Citrix Workspace users get a single point of access to all company resources, delivered with complete security and with a carefully designed and optimized user experience.
If you need to reorganize the way you work and want to do it right…bet on someone who can give you concrete answers!
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I recommend reading the interview with Fabio Luinetti, Country Manager of Citrix Italy: