Essential Characteristics
Mobility
Users can access business applications from anywhere, at any time. Enable mobile users and telecommuting, without sacrificing functionality or security.
Platform Independence
Allow access to business applications from any device, independent of operating system or computational capabilities. Seamless enable mobile phones, tablets, thin clients, laptops, and workstations.
Heterogeneity
Provide access to business applications regardless of their execution environment. Access Windows, open source and web-based applications from any devices, exactly the same way.
Centralization
Stream your business applications from the Data Center, centralizing and simplifying their management and that of the underlying infrastructure. Simplify file storage, backups and anti-virus.
Technology Paradigms
Application Virtualization
Encapsulate business applications from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. As an umbrella concept, it can encompass technologies like application streaming, VDI, amongst others. Reduce computational resources usage through centralization and scale effects, while simplifying management and support through unification.
Multi-seat
Multiplex the traditional desktop for several local users. Create several work posts from a single workstation, each with its respective inputs and outputs (image, sound, storage devices). Reduce hardware, maintenance and energy costs, by using truly plug-and-play, low-power devices without moving parts while retaining full multimedia capabilities.
Desktop Miniaturization
By leveraging the latest generation of miniature computing, carry in your pocket a ultra-small, power-efficient device, with built-in wireless connectivity and storage capabilities, that allows you to transform any display into a fully functional computer. Performance and storage are enough for productivity, web browsing, streaming media and accessing virtualized applications.
Industries
Large Enterprises
Take advantage of modern workspace paradigms in your central and remote branch offices. Deploying a new location is extremely simplified.
Finance
Massively reduce the desktop costs in your local branches, without sacrificing security and compliance. Save on management, hardware and licensing expenses.
Government
Reduce software licensing expenses by easing your migration to open source software. The users who needs access to closed source or legacy applications can still do it.
New ways to work
Worldwide mobile worker population, as a percentage of total worker population, by year.
[IDC Worldwide Mobile Worker Population Forecast]
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People expect to be able to work outside the office, at any time, and whether it’s on their personal phones, work-issued laptops or a friend’s tablet.
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People expect to be able to work outside the office, at any time, and whether it’s on their personal phones, work-issued laptops or a friend’s tablet.
Benefits
Cost Reduction
Reduce your costs over licensing (operating system, applications), management (service desk, maintenance, repair), energy and security (anti-virus, backups, patch management).
Bring Your Own Device
Leverage the benefits of Bring Your Own Device while avoiding common pitfalls with regulations, control, licensing, management and security. Facilitate usage of heterogeneous devices (phones, tablets, laptops and desktops).
Management and Scalability
Take advantage of business application centralization with economies of scale, statistical multiplexing, horizontal scaling and application differentiation based on end-user’s profile. Facilitate management in areas like software auditing, compliance, threat management or backups.
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