Within the Citrix product line you will now be able to provision a thin client-based application and achieve the agility that business units want without the commitment to a specific platform. This means that if your users want Windows Mobile or an iPhone you can publish an application, tailored to their screens and with Dazzle, you can give them the option to choose which applications they want to access, making application provisioning easier for many environments. Because a thin client leaves all of its data on the server, the lack of full disk encryption becomes less of an issue with the iPhone as you can choose to sandbox your business critical data into thin client environments. And finally, you can go to market with solutions that can enhance your business faster in many cases, by leveraging existing efforts and resources.

Overall, we’re happy to add Citrix Receiver in our own portfolio of product offerings. We can now go into any development opportunity with even more options: begin a new application (fat client), deploy a mobile-specific web-based application or bring a thin client solution to the table. From an application lifecycle, being able to look at the iPhone in a similar fashion to how we look at Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X is key to maximizing the capacity an organization towards their the business potential.

Customizable Citrix Authentication Window

XenApp provides a seamless workplace environment that enables IT departments to centralize the management of data and resources in a granular and automated fashion. As all of your information is hosted on company servers as opposed to being distribution across numerous client machines there is an inherently lower security risk of data being compromised, virus infestations and of course untrustworthy users.

XenApp is one of the most mature products of its type. XenApp provides greater advantages over most remote workplace applications in that it utilizes software that enables it to run across all platforms of systems. This ensures Windows, Mac and even Unix/Linux clients can access the same information in exactly the same way – using the native Windows applications published through a web or Citrix client interface. A unified approach to management drives down administrative overhead and expense by allowing IT departments to focus on one interface rather than having to support various individual systems all with their unique quirks or configurations.

Citrix in URL

With Citrix, a user simply browses to the website where the Application is hosted and logs in. From there, the end-user has access to all the applications that they have been granted access to.

Citrix Application Selection Dialog

Access to applications can be based on granular, user based settings or as a result of larger, more scalable group memberships either local to the Citrix server or based on Active Directory. Either way, each unique user can be provided a very specific and unique user experience tailored to their needs. For some users, you may allow access to a full Desktop environment while for others you may limit access to only a small subset of applications.

Citrix in Action

When you are looking to have an enterprise-level deployment of Mac OS X, Citrix can help to ease the transition burden. For example, many applications are not available to the Mac. If Mac OS X users are not able to access the corporate ERP system then they are not full citizens of the enterprise. The same goes with obtain support for various browser incompatibilities that may exist with corporate Intranets and obtaining features not available in the Mac versions of applications, such as being able to auto-archive in Microsoft Outlook (which is not a feature of Entourage). All-in-all, Citrix can help you ease into an enterprise switching campaign rather than force all of your users into a culture shock of new applications, new ways of doing things and compatibility problems.

Citrix is also a scalable solution. The clustering options in XenApp are far easier to configure than with Windows Terminal Server. The failover is fast and less infrastructure is required as the Citrix server is able to manage most of the workload.

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