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NameName Volker SchmeiserVolker SchmeiserTitelTitel Regional ManagerRegional 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

Application Serving

Portal Services

Central Office

Remote OfficeFamiliar Web

Portal Interface

LAN/WAN

Dial Up

Internet or LAN/WAN

Enterprise Applications (Windows, UNIX, Mainframe)

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