Citrix Workspace Suite

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Citrix Workspace Suite is a single, flexible solution that can optimize application and desktop deployment and lifecycle management to reduce IT costs . A comprehensive solution enables employees to securely access their applications, desktops, and data from anywhere in the world. It includes maximum revisions of products such as Citrix Virtual Apps, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix Content Collaboration, as well as client components of Citrix ADC network products.

2021: Add functionality to ensure employee well-being

Citrix Workspace has added functionality to ensure employee well-being. This became known on February 12, 2021.

On dannymbyuro United States Censuses, since April, 2020 the signs of concern and a depression are shown at more than 30% of adult Americans, that is is 200% more, than in 2019. To regain control over situation, Citrix Systems added to the solution of Citrix Workspace functionality for ensuring wellbeing of employees. The decision will help psychological recovery after working hours so that employees can focus on their direct responsibilities.

The World Health Organization estimates that the global economy loses about a trillion dollars annually due to declining productivity associated with anxiety-depressive disorders.

Together with Citrix, companies create the spaces that employees need for good health and successful work. With Citrix Workspace, they provide safe, reliable, and stable working conditions, eliminate noise and distractions, focus, experiment, and benefit.

The capabilities of micro-applications built into the solution allow you to integrate functionality into the workspace to ensure the well-being of staff and make it part of the workflow. With a set of simple, off-the-shelf tools, you can automatically allocate relevant content and resources and transfer them to any device. They are also used to solve problems related to physical and psychological health in the workplace, for example:

• Periodic monitoring of staff pulse to identify possible stress and address its causes;
• Sending positive news to maintain a working environment;
• actively recognizing the achievements of colleagues to create an atmosphere of engagement and common cause;
• increasing the relevance of relevant content and questionnaires to support employees.

Customers can also add functionality involving members of Citrix's growing partner ecosystem, or develop micro-applications themselves according to opportunities and well-being needs.

Citrix functionality to ensure staff well-being for February 2021 is already available.

2020

Integration with Acronis Cyber Protect

On October 22, 2020, Acronis announced that it has developed an integrated solution for service providers, which is designed to strengthen the protection of customer data in Citrix Workspace, regardless of their physical location. More details here.

Citrix Workspace-based solution for safe return of staff to offices

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced the availability of a Citrix Workspace-based solution that enables customers and partners to safely return staff to offices and ensure rapid adaptation to work environments. This became known on June 25, 2020.

Most companies understand that returning to the office does not mean returning to the previous conditions, "said Tim Minahan, executive vice president of business strategy at Citrix.

Traditionally, offices were a place of collaboration, a place where innovations were born. In addition to the allocated meeting spaces, colleagues met and talked in corridors, cafeterias, gymnasiums. All this has changed as a result of the adoption of protocols designed to slow down the spread of coronavirus. Office space should now be planned taking into account the social distance. Work schedules need to be revised to minimize the number of people in the building at the same time. Employees must be inspected before entering the work rooms. There may be a ban on visitors.

This has never happened, "said Jeffrey Dean, director of global security and risk services at Citrix. - There is no ready-made recipe for the safe return of staff to the office, but with the necessary data and technologies, companies will be able to restore and develop their business.

Citrix Workspace will help create comfortable conditions in which employees work with maximum efficiency, as well as ensure information security and occupational health in the office environment. Using the additional capabilities of micro-applications in the workspace to return to the office, organizations will be able to solve current problems that will arise in the process of restoring activity before the personnel department, legal department, engineering and IT services, etc.: conducting surveys regarding employee readiness; identification and resolution of the most important issues for returning staff, such as the physical location of workplaces, organization of meetings and meetings with customers; following safety protocols; incoming sanitary control and self-diagnostics; organization of the working space in accordance with the norms of social distancing; Display the location of objects and track contacts Development of communication strategies.

While organizations care about business continuity and sustainability, teams need to work and collaborate in an extremely distributed environment, while increasing employee interest, "said Shannon Kalvar, Research Manager, Customer Virtualization and IT Services Management at IDC. - A comprehensive discussion of the issue will help to find the right course, following which we will strengthen our readiness and take into account uncertainties in the creation of relationships between partners, employees and customers.

To this end, Citrix also opened a resource center for returning to the office, where companies will be able to get acquainted with technologies, typical processes and recommendations, including those used by Citrix.

You should not wait for maximum returns when employees do not feel safe. Competitive advantages will be on the side of those organizations that understand this and with the help of technology will create an environment where people will be protected and can work fruitfully and develop, "Dean said. - In developing tools and recommendations for the safe return of our employees to the office, we worked closely with doctors, representatives of law enforcement agencies and local authorities, and we are pleased to share the results with our customers and everyone who can use the[1].

Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud Availability

On February 19, 2020, Citrix Systems announced the availability of Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud. With its help the companies will be able to provide to employees access to necessary and habitual prilozheniyamg Suite and to ensure simple, comfortable and intellectual functioning, promoting growth of the involvement of employees and increase in labor productivity.

"If we talk about modern work processes, then employees do not want to be distracted by technological subtleties. They want technology to help them work better. With the help of Citrix Workspace, companies will be able to get rid of annoying employees digital noise, give them the opportunity to focus on work that is important and inspires them, " noted' Calvin Hsu, Citrix's vice president of product marketing

"We are pleased that Citrix Workspace has become available to millions of G Suite users worldwide. By integrating and expanding the capabilities of G Suite, Citrix helps customers organize workflows in a more rational and orderly manner. " noted' by Manvinder Singh, Google Cloud's Partner Director

Citrix Workspace is a unified, secure, and intelligent platform that transforms the workflow by organizing, directing, and automating all employee activities to maximize impact. It is for this purpose that, according to Citrix, companies using cloud Google Cloud are introducing Citrix Workspace.

"By placing Citrix Workspace in the Google Cloud, we create a unified, comfortable work environment where people can focus on useful work. This significantly increases the efficiency and satisfaction of employees, " noted' Mari Wasström, Head of IT Solutions at Neste Oyj '

According to the developer, with the latest version of Citrix Workspace, Google Cloud customers were able to integrate G Suite tools preferred by employees into an intelligent work complex. To increase productivity and save time, micro-applications can be created almost instantly, combining many work operations by automating and simplifying standard tasks. Micro-applications for G Suite allow you to streamline everything from booking resources to sending reminders and notifications to new team members. A simple micro-application designer can adapt Citrix Workspace to support unique processes and company-specific requirements.

With Google Cloud Anthos for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, companies can create and run microservice applications anywhere. Citrix ADC Health Validation for Anthos enables customers to integrate Citrix ADC controllers, including MPX, VPX, and CPX, into the Anthos cloud, while unifying local and cloud environments across policies and operational parameters facilitates application migration. Citrix ADM Service Graphs is used to visualize microservice maps, obtain information about their status, identify anomalies and possible problems, Citrix noted.

The virtual machines Machine Creation Service (MCS) in the solution Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops allows IT services to quickly and efficiently configure Citrix workloads based on Windows and create a modern digital work environment where employees gain access to all the tools necessary for fruitful collaboration, Citrix claims.

"All of our IT processes are running in the cloud, and we use, including the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Citrix MCS, our administrators seamlessly create and update images for workloads. All they need to do is download the image, make the necessary changes, stop the image, take a snapshot and perform an update from Citrix Studio. This technology saves a lot of work time and supports coherent work, " noted Ulrik Christensen, chief engineer of Oncology Venture, which is responsible for infrastructure

For February 2020, the Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud solution is already available.

2019

Citrix Announces a New Era of Employee Productivity and Engagement

On May 29, 2019, Citrix will take part in the TAdviser SummIT 2019 conference, where it will talk in detail about the new digital workspace, cooperation with Google and cybersecurity solutions. The presentation of new developments took place as part of Citrix Synergy, the leading conference on digital technologies, which takes place from May 21 to 23, 2019 in Atlanta.

According to the Gallup Institute, about 85% of employees are poorly involved, which leads to almost $7 trillion in losses. The reason: the excess of applications and technologies that employees are forced to use in their daily activities. To change this situation for the better, Citrix introduced the updated Citrix Workspace.

By introducing the machine learning technology and optimizing the workflows implemented in it, it is now possible to improve the user experience of employees not only by properly organizing the work, but also by guiding their work, making it truly "smart."

Instead of scrolling through e-mail, searching calendars, or tediously navigating through multiple sub-menus in enterprise applications, specialists can get the right information on a smartphone, tablet, or PC in news feed mode for quick work.

In addition, Citrix also announced plans to include support for Google Cloud in Citrix Workspace so that their customers can gain additional flexibility and freedom of choice when switching to clouds: they will be able to deliver applications to Google devices and operating systems faster and more efficiently and increase user functionality.

Another important issue that has been highlighted at Citrix Synergy this year has been information security. According to the company, there is no need to choose between the convenience of users and ensuring information security. A deep understanding of user behavior and the intelligent features implemented in Citrix Analytics will allow you to achieve an ideal balance between flexibility and the need to maintain a secure environment, dynamically applying security policies while not interfering with user performance. This solution also allows you to identify threats and automatically prevent them.

Eliminating Unnecessary Complexity

With Citrix Workspace, companies can provide unified login to all applications and access to all necessary information, including already configured integration with more than 150 enterprise applications, including Salesforce, Workday, SAP Ariba, and SAP Concur, ServiceNow, Microsoft Outlook, and GSuite.

And the planned integration with most identity and access management solution providers, including Okta, Ping, Radius and GoogleID, coupled with Citrix Workspace security, will allow companies to make application delivery even safer than using it in its original format.

According to a study by Forrester Research, Inc.,... "Improving productivity is the most important task for the strategy of creating working environments and motivating employees, the level of customer satisfaction and financial performance of companies depend on it." (Transform The Employee Experience To Drive Business Performance, Executive Overview: The Employee Experience, February 12, 2018)

With the introduction of machine learning technology and the optimization of business processes implemented in Citrix Workspace, customers can improve the user experience of employees not only through the proper organization of work, but also by guiding and making it smarter.

With more than 100 microapplications for popular software services, Citrix Workspace can automatically find priorities, allowing employees to work faster and more efficiently.

Instead of scrolling through e-mail, searching calendars, or tediously navigating through multiple sub-menus in enterprise applications, specialists can get the right information on a smartphone, tablet, or PC in news feed mode for quick work.

Most of us work on average in 4 different places during the day. We are constantly moving - even on our devices, switching between mail, documents, texts, tweets and instant messages almost every 2 minutes. The tools we use must follow us and adapt to the environments we are in.

With Citrix Workspace, companies can provide their employees with exceptional seamless experience through the channels and devices they prefer. By supporting most of the most commonly used collaboration tools, including Microsoft Teams and Slack, content can be transferred to employees as a single, continuous stream of information, eliminating the need to switch among contexts/applications.

2018

Integration of Citrix Workspace App with Samsung devices with dock support DeX

On August 29, 2018, it became known that the company Citrix announced that it was expanding support smartphones tablets Samsung with support for the DeX dock, including support for API DeX that are used to manage devices, applications and user policies. Samsung and Citrix have worked together for several years to create a secure and easy-to-use digital working environment for Samsung devices, designed for corporate scenarios, including state security, financial services, medicine, retail, etc.

This project with Samsung was implemented as part of the company's desire to offer support for any device or platform directly from the moment they enter the market. With Citrix Workspace App, Samsung device owners can securely access virtual applications and desktops, mobile applications, SaaS applications and data, easily switching between mobile devices, laptops and workstations without interrupting the workflow. Citrix Unified Endpoint Management provides all elements for end-user management within a single platform solution that helps IT administrators manage enterprise applications, desktops, and data in a secure way.

Citrix and Samsung work together to offer companies a solution that will allow them to make employees more mobile and improve the quality of customer service - combining Samsung dock DeX and Citrix Workspace solutions have created a flexible and secure unified working environment for Samsung devices. Eric McCarty, marketing vice president of mobile products of the Samsung Electronics company

Creating a Unified Working Environment for Mobile Devices

Citrix has expanded its range of virtual application, desktop, and mobile application delivery solutions to provide secure access to SaaS applications and content through Citrix Workspace App. Citrix Workspace App joins Secure Mail, Content Collaboration and Unified Endpoint Management solutions that integrate with Samsung smartphones and tablets with support for the DeX dock.

Citrix Workspace provides users with secure single sign-on access to all applications, including the popular Salesforce and Workday applications, and offers a variety of features, including data loss prevention and digital watermark technology for virtual and SaaS applications, to provide additional protection.

Citrix offers unified functionality, both in the office and in mobile mode, through automation and integration with third-party applications, allowing users, for example, to transfer communication from email to the Slack corporate messenger using the same single sign-on system. This approach allows you to significantly increase the productivity of mobile employees.

Mobile Opportunities for Retailers

Integration with Samsung-enabled devices will DeX create additional mobile retail opportunities. Employees of retail stores or affiliates of companies Citrix Workspace will allow access to virtual applications, desktops and mobile applications to provide secure access to SaaS applications and content on Samsung DeX-enabled devices. This ensures that multiple applications and desktops run efficiently during sales negotiations, and allows employees to switch between mobile devices and desktops to perform customer transactions. Citrix Workspace App opens up additional opportunities for retail affiliates using smartphones Samsung tablets with DeX support, which will reduce the total cost of ownership.

By integrating Citrix Workspace and Samsung-enabled devices DeX we not only provide unified use of SaaS, web, mobile and virtual applications on any device, but also help companies make their employees and customers more mobile. When used with Citrix Unified Endpoint Management, customers can securely manage Samsung devices, as well as all corporate and personal devices.

Exit Workspace APP Digital Workspace

In May 2018, Citrix released the Workspace APP program, which the company calls the first digital work environment on the market, where all applications and content for any device are combined and protected.

With Workspace APP, users can securely access Windows-, Linux-, mobile, and SaaS applications, desktops, and files. The solution provides consistent functionality so that all applications and files are instantly ready to work on a smartphone, tablet, home computer or other device, Citrix said.

Announcing Workspace APP

Workspace APP includes smart features that allow you to run applications or find the right files. The application interface is provided as a cloud service.

Workspace APP provides centralized access to file stores such as OneDrive for Business, ShareFile, and EMC Systems. The application automatically downloads files to the applications you want to use. Moreover, the user can work even if the application necessary to open the file is not installed on the local computer.

Citrix Workspace APP uses user behavior analysis technology - Citrix Analytics, which creates an individual profile for each employee and their usual work models, devices and access points used by him.

With Citrix Workspace APP, IT can divide resources into personal and business resources, allowing users to access enterprise digital resources on personal devices. The solution automatically configures device policies as needed to enable users to apply their personal devices to business tasks, including enterprise email, SSO, and access to internal corporate sites.

Citrix Workspace APP will be available in the second quarter of 2018. Later, the application plans to integrate with. ON ServiceNow^[2]

2017: Unification of Application and Data Management

On September 27, 2017, Citrix announced that during the Synergy Unplugged conference in Moscow, it presented an updated and secure digital work environment that unites access and management of mobile applications, SaaS, web, Windows applications and data, as well as consolidates access, control and work processes in one solution.

With a single registration system, employees have secure access to the same functionality on any device. Unlike other solutions, Citrix's secure digital work environment is built on a context-based approach.

The solution includes collaboration, information rights management, and business processes. Directly in a secure digital work environment, users can create, edit, and share documents using Office 365.

2016: Citrix Research: Why Do Companies Choose Workspace Suite?

Why is IT moving to a single, integrated solution for delivering secure desktops? The results of the early 2016 study show that practical companies choose a product that can meet the needs of the organization, both from the point of view of IT and business.

Citrix Workspace Suite is an integrated solution for IT departments that want to unify enterprise technologies

The majority of IT department purchases in mobile workplace creation are related to 3 key tasks - employee empowerment, mobility, and security. A new study shows how Citrix Workspace Suite helps companies meet employee challenges while delivering added value to IT departments.

• 66% of respondents said that they chose Citrix Workspace Suite, as it is a single integrated solution that meets a wide range of end-user needs. Choosing one mobile desktop solution that includes virtualization, enterprise mobility management, and single-vendor networking is critical for IT departments that want to unify enterprise technologies.
• 61% of respondents said that they chose Citrix Workspace Suite to implement corporate mobility management functions in their companies. Implementing Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Application Management (MAM), and enterprise office applications, as well as delivering virtual applications and desktops, is important for companies buying Citrix Workspace Suite.
• 51% of respondents planned to implement the function of secure file sharing using Citrix Workspace Suite. Today's employees often have to work in mobile mode, but companies have to protect corporate data - Citrix Workspace Suite allows you to meet these needs.
• The other 51% of survey participants talked about using desktop and application virtualization features with Citrix Workspace Suite to expand their current investment in virtualization technologies. XenDesktop Platinum is the main Citrix Workspace Suite component that allows to add to the traditional XenApp environments new functions of virtualization of desktops. In addition, Platinum includes powerful tools, including AppDNA for checking application compatibility, which is very important for any virtualization project. A description of the Citrix Workspace Suite features is available here.

Key Business Benefits Named by Citrix Workspace Suite Users

• 65% said they brought operational efficiency to a new level
• 64% significantly improved employee productivity
• 58% improved security
• 48% increased employee satisfaction

Survey participants also noted a decrease in management costs (47%) and a decrease in IT spending as a whole (32%), which suggests that Citrix Workspace Suite also has a positive impact on the IT budget.

2014

On June 18, 2014, Citrix Systems announced the release of Citrix Workspace Suite software technology.

With centralized management and on-demand delivery of standard images, IT can improve the success of application and desktop updates, provide role-based management, configuration, security, and support for employee enterprise and personal devices.

Citrix connects all components together into a single solution

New development simplifies management and protection of end-user computing environments. It brings together key Citrix technologies, including application and computer virtualization technologies, mobile application and device management technologies, enterprise file synchronization and sharing, and WAN optimization technology to provide comprehensive application, desktop, and mobile infrastructure management. Citrix Workspace Suite helps companies improve employee productivity, simplify their IT environment, and securely protect enterprise data.

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