Mobile Computing Is Here to Stay

The Benefits of Embracing Business Mobility

Mobility is more than a product, a tool, or an individual piece of technology—it is a ubiquitous work style that transcends legacy IT by delivering apps, desktops, files, and services seamlessly to any user, on any device, over any network.

Mobile workspaces go

where you go

55%say mobile computing is very important for supporting business processes and employee productivity

38% say they wouldn’t be able to do their job without the use of their mobile device

Rapid innovation in the consumer market

Traditional PC

Traditional

SaaS

Mobile applications

Web applications

Desktop virtualization

Application virtualization

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Alternate endpoint devices

Common policy

Centralized security

Extensibility

User awareness

Collaboration, Social Enterprise, Unified Communication

Mobile, web, SaaS, and Windows apps featuring a variety of delivery models matched to specific use cases and end-user requirements.

Instant file and sync for secure corporate data access, IT control, and data protection.

Social collaboration simplifies project management and enables connectivity via social networks.

Secure mobile access, including single sign-on, network awareness, common identity, and authentication.

Access from any device, anywhere for the ultimate end-user experience and maximum productivity, which requires IT control at both the app and device level.

Any network, any cloud, which is achieved by delivering universal network access, protocol acceleration, and optimal bandwidth utilization.

End-users expect instant access to applications

Compliance, corporate governance, and security

Mobilization of workforce

Application delivery model proliferation

ESG asked businesses why they decided to embrace mobility within their organizations. Here are the top reasons:

Powerful Challenges in Enabling Mobility

IT sits squarely in the middle of varied challenges that start with end-users’ expectations for a consumer-like experience and run the gamut to compliance and security, distributed workforces, and getting applications effectively delivered.

The Solution: Mobile Workspaces

A Strategy for Success

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There is no single technology for mobile computing. Rather, it is a combination of virtualization, mobility, collaboration, networking and cloud technologies that helps customers succeed in a dynamic and mobile world.

A comprehensive mobile workspace must include:

How Citrix Workspace Suite Makes This Possible

Citrix Workspace Suite provides instant, secure access to all apps, desktops, data, and services from any device, located anywhere, over any network, at anytime. It unites its virtualization, mobility, enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS), collaboration, networking, and cloud service technologies, thus enabling businesses to empower people to choose when, where, and how work gets done.

Business mobility allows employees who are working from multiple devices and locations to remain productive with seamless access to the same experience and content they have in the office.”

- Mark Bowker, ESG Senior Analyst

Sources:

Legacy Applications

Components and Requirements for Mobile Workspaces

Learn more at citrix.com/workspacesuite

Endpoint devices Delivery Models

Thin client

51%Access specific applications or services

46%Increase employee communication

51%Improving specific business processes

52%Increase employee productivity

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Produced exclusively for Citrix by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. 2014

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