Citrix Solutions for the Virtual
Workplace – outside of headquarters!
Name
Titel
Volker Schmeiser
Regional Manager
Today’s Goal
To demonstrate a proven and cost-effective solution
for providing enterprise applications and information
to remote offices and a mobile workforce – extended
day workers, road warriors, mobile professionals and
mobile field agents.
Agenda
Challenges
Remote Office Connectivity
 Customer needs
 Citrix’s Solution
 Testimonials
Workforce Mobility
 Customer needs
 Citrix’s Solution
 Testimonials
Challenges
Access to enterprise resources from outside of
headquarters can be either time-consuming and/or
expensive dependent on connection and bandwith
Consistency of data and uniform software releases are
difficult to guarantee within dezentralized structures
Installation of software and management of software
versions is very time-consuming
Security of data and access is a real challenge
Support for widly spread workforce is resource intense
Performance can be an issue for mobile workers
Remote Office Connectivity: Customer needs
Connect remote locations quickly
Ensure consistency of data and applications for
employees in remote offices and in headquarters
Access data in real-time
Improve operational efficiency
Cut costs
Guarantee end user
support for all locations –
inside and outside head
quarters
Keep number of IT staff to
a minimum
Citrix Solution for Remote Office Connectivity
Delivers seamless, secure access to
enterprise applications and
information for remote offices
Providing customers greater
security, improved productivity
Lower operating costs
Remote Office Connectivity Solution
Enterprise Applications
(Windows, UNIX, Mainframe)
Central Office
Application Serving
Portal Services
Internet or
LAN/WAN
Remote Office
Familiar Web
Portal Interface
Dial Up
LAN/
WAN
Bayer Austria Ges. m.b.H.
Company Profile:
– Bayer Austria has 200 Employees
– Bayer is represented by some 350 companies
employing 117,000 people on all continents.
Requirements:
– Employees working in remote offices need to have
access to all business-critical applications and data
Challenges:
– Remote access to client/server-applications proofed
to be very time-consuming if not impossible due to
bandwith issues
Bayer Austria Ges.m.b.H. (cont.)
Results:
– Reduction of TCO by 100.000 € per anno
– Easy and secure remote access even with low bandwith
– Data consistency and uniform application versions for all
Employees, be they working at head quarters or remotely
– End users in remote offices get the same support as users
in head quarters
• With Citrix MetaFrame low bandwith of remote connections is no
longer an issue: Each Employee can work from home nearly as
fast and effective as if he was at head quarters. At home
response times are sometimes even shorter than they used to
be at workstations in the LAN sometimes. With the Citrix solution
we could lower the TCO significantly. (Dr. Walter Steinbach,
Head of Administration, Bayer Austria GmbH)
Summary of Benefits
Cost effective single-point of access to enterprise
resources from any location with any device – be it
remote locations or mobile workers
Easy, predictable access over any connection – wired,
wireless and web.
Cost effective access via broadband or dial-up leased
lines.
Security and centralized management.
Workforce Mobility: Customer needs
Improve Workforce Productivity, reduce Costs
Provide mobile workers with safe and secure access to
corporate resources - from any location and with any
device
Ensure good performance even with low bandwith
Guarantee security for data
and connection
Web & Wireless Web
enablement
Citrix Solution for Workforce Mobility
Enhances workforce
productivity
By delivering
a single, secure point
of access
To full-featured
applications and
information
Following you to where
you work – home, hotel
or warehouse floor.
RAG INFORMATIK GmbH
Company Profile:
– RAG INFORMATIK, big German IT Service Provider
offering Application Service Providing for SAP
applications
Requirements:
- E. Heitkamp GmbH, German building constructor,
need Microsoft Office-, SAP-, CAD- and construction
software for their workforce
Challenges:
– 1000 work places at 20 sites and up to 300 variable
building locations shall be provided with applications
from one central computer center
RAG INFORMATIK GmbH (cont.)
Results:
– With Citrix application server computing all employees at
20 sites and up to 300 variable building locations can
access 13 different applications deployed in RAG‘s
computer center
– Total IT costs lowered by 30% through Citrix Application
Server computing and centralized administration
• Since the MetaFrame server farm went live, the IT-World has
become a lot easier for our customer Heitkamp: The
computer center and all resources are now being
administered centrally by RAG INFORMATIK. This enabled
Heitkamp to save up to 30% of their IT costs within short
time. (Bernd Mennemeier, Manager Support Department,
RAG INFORMATIK GmbH)
Summary of Benefits
Single point of access from any location with any device
Easy, predictable access over any connection – wired,
wireless and web
Application Server Computing is a highly secure solution
Integration of third-party authentification solutions
Data encryption
Cost reduction through centralized management
Good performance even with low bandwith