This is a guest blog post by Gauhar Junnarkar, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft.

In our current times, manufacturing companies all over the world have struggled to meet the demands of a remote design workforce. In many cases the software used to design products from cellular phones to airplanes is often hosted on high-end, GPU-enabled workstations in offices.

With the collaboration between Microsoft, AMD, Siemens, and Citrix, manufacturers can now access their Siemens NX design and simulation solution virtually from anywhere, thanks to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service and Microsoft Azure. With this new option comes flexibility for the hybrid workplace, so businesses can put key solutions into the hands of their employees without requiring them to be in the office.

Siemens NX is now validated as Citrix Ready, powered by Microsoft Azure and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service. Customers migrating their Siemens NX application from on premises to the cloud reap the benefits of lower costs and reduced management burdens

With Siemens NX software, businesses can deliver better products faster and more efficiently because they can easily create digital twins of their products. Engineers can iterate using these digital twins by simulating performance and collaborating across locations — made possible because their data is stored in the cloud.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service is a Citrix-managed service that is ideally suited to move on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. It provides IT administrators with tools to increase flexibility and provides highly secure and simplified management of virtual desktops and applications. And Azure supports high-end design applications on the cloud.

Let’s look at a few benefits of using Siemens NX, powered by Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service and GPU-enabled VMs from Azure.

Deliver Siemens NX to Employees, Wherever They Are

  • Deliver Siemens NX virtually or the entire desktop to users with a seamless native-like experience regardless of work location.
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service and Azure provide more flexibility, security, and simplified management with faster access to platform upgrade and features.

Simplify IT Administration with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Azure

  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service and Microsoft Azure reduce infrastructure and management costs typically associated with on-premises deployments by transitioning those components — physical servers, operating systems, databases, and software components —  into Citrix-hosted cloud services
  • Accelerate time-to-value with faster onboarding, deployment, and production services. Simplify business continuity and disaster recovery planning, avoid outages through the flexibility of scalable cloud services and infrastructure.

Boost Confidence with High Levels of Security

  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service integrates with an assortment of identity providers, ensuring that organizations can utilize their standard identity provider and authentication access strategy. Additionally, it integrates with multi-factor authentication providers.
  • Citrix Analytics for Security alerts IT on malicious behaviors and anomalies, and recommends actions to mitigate security risks, while also helping improve performance and operational efficiency.
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service provides robust policies and controls to ensure that sensitive intellectual property is protected on any type of device.

Since Siemens NX uses Azure NVv4 series, it provides extraordinary performance to manufacturing customers offering fractional GPUs that accelerate VM performance at an extremely low cost to customers.

Learn more about the Azure NVv4 instances and the Siemens NX validation by Citrix Ready.