In today’s competitive, global business environment, the ability of a company to grow is in direct correlation with the productivity of its employees – the most valuable and expensive assets of an organization.

Unfortunately, business interruptions, such as site closures due to fire or flood, natural disasters, transit strikes, pandemics, and severe weather, can displace employees from their workplace. This type of disruption significantly impacts the productivity of the employee and, in turn, impacts the company financially.

What is workforce continuity?

When disaster strikes, an organization cannot simply recover the computers and infrastructure, and be done with the process. Once the systems are up and running, the IT group must ensure that critical applications can be accessed by the employees who use them. Systems and communications staff must build high-availability systems that link to redundant datacenters so that they can provide employees with these business-critical applications. It is application delivery that supports the workforce – a keystone to your company’s survival; although, a recent survey conducted by Citrix and Forrester Consulting found that only 25% of respondents felt they were very prepared to reconnect their workforce in the face of a disruption.

Application delivery infrastructure keeps workers productive

Citrix application delivery infrastructure efficiently supports everyday business operations by providing employees with access to their workspace – applications and information – from anywhere, using virtually any device, such as a home PC, a corporate laptop, or a device in a hotel business center or airport lounge.

While many companies have already survived crises through the use of Citrix solutions, we knew that we could do more to ensure successful workforce recovery. Working with the leader in business continuity, IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, we developed IBM Disaster Recovery Services for workplace recovery – virtual workplace continuity.

Citrix also offers other business continuity solutions that can enable organizations during a site failure to maintain secure user access to business-critical applications, prevent downtime, and enable worker collaboration from anywhere.  Learn more...