Business challenge
KEMET’s mission is to make the world a better, safer, more connected place to live. To achieve that, it must empower its employees to be as productive as they can and work to their best potential to achieve the highest levels of efficiency. “In today’s modern workplace, there are 10, 15 or 20 applications that employees are supposed to use on a daily basis,” says KEMET’s Global VP of IT, Chris Hall. “What we’re looking to achieve is to stop some of that context switching.”
In common with many other manufacturers, the company currently operates on a hybrid cloud model that enables it to face the constant trade-off between meeting productivity goals and investing in future growth. It needed a solution that would help it transition to the cloud without an expensive ‘big bang’ implementation.
The solution
To boost productivity by building a better employee experience, KEMET chose the intelligent capabilities of Citrix Workspace, which helps its staff organize and guide their workflows. “The personalized feeds capability inside Citrix Workspace is one of the things that I jumped on immediately as being important to my users,” explains Hall. “It gives them a user experience that they are very accustomed to in their normal social media interactions.”
Citrix Cloud services simplify the delivery and management of Citrix technologies, helping companies to extend existing on-premises software deployments or move one hundred percent to the cloud. “One of the big selling points of Citrix is that we can start on-premises and move into a cloud without impacting the user experience,” says Hall. “It gives my internal IT team the ability to manage that experience across geographies and across borders.” Evidence of this benefit is the use of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops which enables IT to control virtual machines, applications, and security, while providing anywhere access for any device—creating an empowering employee experience.
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