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Work is Not a Place: New Era Demands Tools for Mobile, Flexible Workstyles - Are You Ready?
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
With a rapidly evolving workforce reliant on more freelancers, globally
dispersed teams and increasing generational and cultural diversity,
today's businesses, government organizations and associations require
more effective tools for collaboration, productivity and mobility. As a
sponsor of Telework Week March 4-8, Citrix
is encouraging businesses to take action and try some of the new ways
that people are getting work done, collaborating across boundaries and
being ever more productive.
In an increasingly fluid economy, where mobile technologies are
increasingly blending work and personal lives, organizations are facing
a number of important trends impacting how we think about and manage
work. PriceWaterhouseCoopers
reports that by 2020, companies will increase the number of host
locations by 50%, so teams are, and will continue to be, ever more
dispersed across different places rather than being physically
co-located. It's also not uncommon for employees, customers and vendors
to never meet in person, and there's a greater expectation for people to
remain connected and in touch while on the go.
Furthermore, according to the McKinsey
Global Institute, the Fortune 100 workforce will increase in terms
of the number of contingent workers utilized, from 20% in 2012 to 50% by
2020. The implication is that an increasing percentage of teams will
consist of people who are not employed directly by your company and will
be outside the company firewall. How do you ensure that you are
providing these people with tools that enable them all to work
effectively and seamlessly together, irrespective of which company is
employing them or where they happen to be located
"It's no longer about where people are working; it's about how
effectively they're working, both as individuals and as teams," said
Brett Caine, senior vice president and general manager of Citrix's
Online Services division. "The new workplace is all about collaborative
workstyles, and moving the business faster. Putting easy to use tools in
place that help foster relationships when people cannot meet in person,
optimize the sharing of ideas and information, and ensure better
productivity will be essential for success as the nature of work
continues to evolve."
Workshifting,
or moving work to the most optimal place and time, represents a
contemporary, people-centric, approach to work. Individuals are, and
will increasingly need to be, empowered, trusted, and held accountable
for prioritizing what they do and when. Companies that enable this work
flexibility through more mobile workstyles are meeting modern workplace
challenges head-on with tools that enable employees to deliver great
results from anywhere. According to the Telework
Research Report, workshifting can increase productivity, with
associated cost reductions, as employees can collaborate more
effectively and move business forward faster.
For employers looking to implement tools for flexible working, Citrix's
market-leading and award winning products (including Citrix Receiver,
GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, Podio, ShareFile and XenMobile MDM) are available
for free trial so businesses nationwide can enable workshifting
for their employees. Citrix also offers
resources online to help employers start, implement and maintain a
flexible workplace culture both across multiple campuses and multiple
countries.
In addition to the tools necessary for IT organizations to support and
manage the systems, people and apps securely, Citrix provides simple and
effective ways for individuals and teams to work from anywhere, with
anyone, at any time and on any device.
Collaboration:
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Citrix
GoToMeeting with HDFaces is a simple web conferencing and online
meeting tool allowing teams to meet and collaborate face-to-face
regardless of location and device.
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Citrix
Podio�is a team-based collaboration platform that makes it
easy for people to manage projects and get real work done.
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Citrix
ShareFile�provides easy and secure file access, content
sharing and collaboration from any device.
IT Management and Remote Access
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Citrix
GoToAssist is a market-leading remote support product that
provides a simple, intuitive way to more effectively manage IT service
desk operations that support people, device and systems.
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Citrix
Receiver is an easy-to-install software client that enables access
to desktops, applications and data easily and securely from any
device, including smartphones, tablets, PCs and Macs. Working with a
Citrix-enabled IT infrastructure, Receiver gives users the mobility,
convenience and freedom needed to get work done from anywhere.
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XenMobile
MDM is an enterprise mobile device management solution that gives
users device choice while also enabling IT to meet its management and
compliance requirements. It provides the foundation to address these
needs through role-based management, configuration and security of
corporate and employee-owned devices. Users are demanding the freedom
to choose their own devices, use any app and access their e-mail and
documents from anywhere.
Personal Remote Access
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Citrix
GoToMyPC is a leading remote
access product that allows users to securely access their Mac or
PC from any web browser - whether that's from another PC, iPad or
Android (News - Alert) device - ensuring users never need to go without files,
programs or email.
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud computing company that enables mobile
workstyles-empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere,
accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they
would in their own office-simply and securely. Citrix cloud computing
solutions help IT and service providers build both private and public
clouds-leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver
high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services for mobile
workstyles. With market leading solutions for mobility, desktop
virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration, and
data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the kind
of speed and agility necessary to succeed in an increasingly mobile and
dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than
260,000�organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual
revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion.�Learn more at�www.citrix.com.
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