Citrix makes work personal

“As consumers, we rely on things like Instagram and Uber to organise and manage our lives. And with a single click, we can accomplish what we set out to do,” said Tim Minahan, executive vice president of strategy and chief marketing officer, Citrix. “Then we get to the office and these streamlined and personalised experiences are replaced with company-issued technology that is cumbersome to use, slows us down, continually interrupts us, and keeps us from doing meaningful work.”

Enabling the future of work today

But this is about to change. By 2021, IDC predicts that 60 per cent of Global 2000 companies will have adopted a future-workspace model —a flexible, intelligent, collaborative virtual/physical work environment —to improve employee experience and productivity, with 10 per cent adopting workspace as a service. And Citrix will be at the forefront of this transformation. (IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Work 2019 Predictions, Doc # EMEA44255218, October 2018)

“The future of work has recently become a common theme from a broad range of technology vendors and service providers. Some can clearly articulate that theme, but it takes a combination of work abstraction and application/client virtualisation technologies to practically deliver the future-space,” notes IDC analyst Shannon Kalvar. 

Personalising work

Using Citrix^® Workspace^™, companies can optimise the work day for every employee by organising, guiding and automating work in an intelligent and personal way that enables them to focus on doing what they do best - and do it best.

“At the end of the day, employees want to master their craft,” Minahan said. “With Citrix Workspace, employers can empower them to do so by freeing them from soul sucking tasks so that they can focus on building their skills and engaging work.”

Unbundling monolithic apps

Infused with innovative technologies such as machine learning and micro applications, Citrix Workspace enables organisations to create a single, unified end experience that is intelligent and secure across apps and data. Leveraging out of the box integrations to the world’s most commonly used applications, including SAP (Ariba, Concur and SuccessFactors); Microsoft (Dynamics, Power BI and Teams); Google G-Suite (Drive, Calendar and Directory); Salesforce; Workday; Atlassian (Jira); Zendesk and ServiceNow; more than 100 pre-configured microapps and the new intelligent features, companies can:

·       Automate repetitive, valueless tasks.

·       Extract the most pertinent tasks and insights from systems of record and deliver them in intelligent feeds to individual users on any device or channel.

·       Create single-purpose steps to simplify the execution of mundane tasks such as filing expenses, requesting time off and submitting purchase orders, among other things.

·       Build personal workflows around individual employees with context and smarts so they can spend less time on menial tasks and focus on meaningful work.

In addition, companies can also connect through Citrix Workspace to legacy, home-grown systems and create engaging micro applications and micro automation using low-code tooling.

“With Citrix, we have a partner on our side who covers all the important issues around delivering applications, desktops and data,” said Bernd Dausch, chief technical officer datacentre, Schuster & Walther IT-Kanzlei GmbH. “In the next few years, the demand for automated workflows and intelligent tools will continue to grow in law firms. With Citrix Workspace, we can address these exact issues.”

Using Citrix Workspace, companies can remove the complexity from work and create a highly personalised experience that enables employees to be their most productive and use the special skills they were hired for to create value. And this is exactly what Citrix partners like Fujitsu are aiming to help them do.