Application Virtualization – Your Applications on Demand
Application virtualization divorses the application from the underlying operatings system. This can dramicaly improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications, and increased return on IT investments. We have chosen Citrix as our application virtualization partner.
Citrix XenApp is a Windows application delivery system that manages and virtualizes all applications in the datacenter for optimal application performance and flexible delivery. With it, you can deliver all Windows applications on demand, either run centrally from the datacenter or streamed down to the desktop for mobile use.
Lowest operating costs for delivering Windows applications
Deliver applications on demand without leaving the data center by using the state-of-the-art application virtualization technologies of Citrix XenApp. Eliminate the need to install or manage applications on individual user devices, making application testing, provisioning, management and support easier and less costly. Let the underlying intelligence automatically select the best delivery method for the user, the application and the location.
Strongest protection for applications and intellectual property
Control, protect and retain intellectual property centrally to dramatically reduce the chance for data loss and theft. XenApp helps you prevent data from leaving the datacenter without your explicit permission, supporting regulatory compliance and security objectives. Built-in endpoint scans and policy controls take into account each user's role, device characteristics and network conditions to determine which applications and data they are authorized to access. These dynamic attributes also define where users may store and print sensitive information. Such strong security measures decrease the potential for inadvertent exposure and enhance your ability to back up and restore information from one place for greater fault tolerance and disaster recovery. Integrated single sign-on and a secure SSL VPN gateway for remote access enable a one password, one path approach to application and data access.
Outstanding application performance over any network
Improve application responsiveness and increase user productivity with patented application virtualization techniques perfected over 15 years. Many Windows applications frustrate users as they wait for data to be pushed across the network. Over high-latency or bandwidth-constrained WANs, these problems are even worse. XenApp greatly reduces network bandwidth requirements and mitigates latency issues, because with applications hosted on the server, only mouse movements, keystrokes and screen updates traverse the network. Even data-laden and graphics-heavy applications perform better, which increases user productivity and adoption of applications.
XenApp enables your IT infrastructure to support the fast pace of business change, with unparalleled performance and an ultimate user experience
Fastest application delivery to all users
– anywhere. Accelerate the time-to-value of your applications so you can quickly respond to changing business needs. Manage the delivery of all your Windows applications from one central location. With XenApp, you deliver applications and updates instantly – anywhere, any time – to offshore employees, outsourcers, new branch offices, new mergers and acquisitions, or mobile workforces.Continuous availability and high reliability, coupled with fast application performance.
Provide high availability for an always-on user experience with application load management, automated server recovery and failover. Rapidly troubleshoot issues by using detailed reports to monitor the end-user experience and identify root causes anywhere in the system – the application, server, network or desktop. XenApp gives you end-to-end visibility, which is key to satisfying and verifying application service level agreements (SLAs) and increasing user satisfaction and productivity.One user interface, one logon, one great experience.
XenApp includes an intuitive and consistent user experience on the desktop and over the Web. Users need only one familiar way to access applications, regardless of where they are or what device they are using. With Citrix you can ensure that applications and data move with your users as they change locations, networks or devices, so they can pick up exactly where they left off without interruption. User and application prioritization offers IT flexibility and control to ensure optimal user productivity.The XenApp product line includes several solutions to meet customers' varying business needs
The XenApp product line includes three editions designed to enable everything from enterprise-wide application delivery or smaller, entry-level implementations.- XenApp Platinum is a comprehensive solution for businesses that need a strategic answer to managing and delivering all applications to users on demand - even when offline. Platinum Edition provides powerful user performance monitoring tools, SSL VPN remote access control, click-to-call communication, single sign-on, WAN optimization and more.
- XenApp Enterprise is for businesses that want to deliver and integrate all Windows applications, automate system resiliency, expand application compatibility and rapidly provision applications across any size server farm.
- XenApp Advanced provides server-side application virtualization and the fundamental functionality for centralizing and delivering Windows-based applications.