Citrix helps IT departments easily and immediately create combined teams that can share applications and information productively, yet securely, no matter the locations or the different systems each merged company might have in place. The key is an IT structure that can accommodate potential M&A activity without breaking. With Citrix solutions, when a merger or acquisition is announced, IT is ready to rapidly integrate services and applications up front, so that delivery can take place swiftly after the deal is complete.

A solution that keeps pace with the business
At the heart of our solution is Citrix application delivery infrastructure, which gives IT the flexibility to change on demand, without changing the overall environment, and today is relied upon by IT teams and their strategic executives at more than 200,000 organizations throughout the world. Citrix application delivery infrastructure is the proven, worldwide solution for application delivery.

With Citrix’s solution, IT can

• Help the business move fast, by reducing the time and cost of delivering Windows applications from months to days or hours
• Let everyone work anywhere, with secure centralized applications and information
• Accelerate application delivery over any WAN, anywhere, from any datacenter, anywhere, by optimizing the broadband connection between the branch office and the enterprise datacenter, without modifying any network components
• Centralize Windows applications on servers managed by IT, making it easy and cost-effective to update applications at all branch offices and other distant locations
• Know what’s happening at the workers’ end, by measuring performance and availability from the users’ perspective, wherever they are working and without leaving the office
• Accelerate performance from datacenter Web applications, reducing cost of operation by reducing server workload
• Centralize data security, with policy-driven access to applications that gives IT control over the data, including how the data are used and where they are stored
• Meet special requirements for Web browser security, because the cache which usually stores visited Web pages and cookies on the client is located on the application server, beyond the reach of hackers and close to IT security expertise
• Reduce data security risks when delivering Windows desktops, by centralizing end-user desktops and data in the datacenter, thereby retaining control of the IP and reducing the security risk of data loss at the endpoint
• Deliver desktop applications without worrying about application and system conflicts and without lowering security standards, by streaming applications to a protected isolation environment, rather than installing them on the end-user’s device
• Quickly distribute patches for Windows applications to hundreds of servers and thousands of clients, with applications located on centralized servers managed directly by the IT department, so each patch only has to be installed once
• Keep everyone productive with instant application availability, by simply creating new user accounts to give new employees, partners, and contractors role-based access to all Windows applications
• Increase collaboration among employees, partners, and contractors, by centralizing Windows applications and data so everyone can work with the same information
• Strengthen security for Windows application delivery with secure logons, delivered via the Single Sign-On option