What is a Citrix Application Delivery Solution?

The software and services which make up a Citrix Application Delivery Solution - delivering a more flexible and cost-effective working environment by enabling customers to Simplify, Standardise and Centralise their IT systems.

Citrix Application Delivery Solutions bring together best of breed software from Citrix and award-winning services from Centralis to create a highly flexible, secure, scalable and resilient application delivery environment.

The results change the way an organisation delivers information services to its users and can make the operation of the whole organisation more flexible.

Ian Slee, Assistant Borough IT Services Manager with Bracknell Forest Borough Council says "The Citrix implementation has enabled the Council to introduce hot desking and home working services. We are now able to rapidly deploy access to any back office application, independent of the end client desktop version or location. This environment also enables the team to rapidly rollout upgrades without the need to modify any client workstation configuration."

Citrix Solution Components

Some of the key components of our Application Delivery Solutions are:

• Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server)
• Citrix NetScaler
• Web Interface
• Password Manager
• “Go To “ Suite
• Citrix Access Gateway
• Security
• Printing
• Centralis design and build services
• Management and support services
• Novell Citrix integration services
• Centralis added-value software

Each of these areas is outlined in brief below:

Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server)

At the heart of an Application Delivery solution is Citrix XenApp (formerly Presentation Server). This allows applications to be published to a central server farm, rather than being deployed to the client devices. Uniquely, Citrix offers load balancing, application publishing, scaling and resilience capable of supporting tens of thousands of users, together with industry leading web delivery and security features bundles as standard.  More about Citrix XenApp

	The Citrix ... environment also enables the team to rapidly rollout upgrades without the need to modify any client workstation configuration.
	Ian Slee, Assistant Borough IT Services Manager, Bracknell Forest Borough Council

NetScaler

Citrix NetScaler application delivery solutions combine the features and functions of traditional data center point products - load balancing, caching, compression, SSL acceleration, attack defence, SSL VPN - into a single network appliance, built from the ground up to maximise the performance of applications..
More about NetScaler

Web Interface

Within the Citrix Application Delivery Suite, Web Interface offers the ability to deliver applications to a browser securely, whether inside or outside the firewall. Used by many customers as their company desktop, Web Interface can be customised to display logos and other customer specific information.

Password Manager

Single-sign-on solves many of the frustrations end-users experience with accessing their systems - and significantly eases the burden on the helpdesk as well!  Citrix Password Manager can provide secure login to both Citrix and Windows delivered applications, and removes the need for "post-it note" password management.  More about Password Manager 4.0.

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“Go To” Suite

The GoTo products (GoToMyPC, GoToAssist and GoToMeeting) offer market leading solutions for remote access, support and collaboration. Simple to deploy, these products have the capability to change the way your end-users work together, and how your organisation supports the end-users. More about the GoTo Products

Citrix Access Gateway

The Citrix Access Gateway provides a secure, always-on, single point-of-access that is simple and cost-effective to deploy and maintain. As a complementary access solution to XenApp, the Access Gateway delivers a single point of greatly reducing the complexity and cost involved in managing access scenarios across the user community.

The gateway allows access to resources via a standard desktop whether in front of or behind the firewall, giving a consistent user experience regardless of location.
More about Citrix Access Gateways

Security

Security is critical to the success of any Application Delivery Solution. Centralis ensure that the optimum level of security is applied through best practice server configuration, directory integration, partnership with RSA to integrate token based authentication and by providing specialist consultancy resource on projects.

Many Centralis customers use our Security service together with Web Interface and the Gateway products to deliver critical systems outside their firewall.

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More Information on Centralis Application Delivery Solutions:

	Citrix Application Delivery Solutions – An Overview How Centralis knowledge of Application Delivery Solutions, structured methodologies and end to end solutions engineering approach enables and delivers strategic business change.
	What are the Uses & Benefits of a Citrix Application Delivery Solution? How Application Delivery Solutions have been used by Centralis customers and the benefits that they have delivered as a result.
	How is a Citrix Application Delivery Solution Designed and Deployed? The stages and components involved in designing and deploying strategic Application Delivery Solutions.
	How is a Citrix Application Delivery Solution Supported and Managed? Centralis customers can choose between training their own staff, backed by our support contracts, and using Centralis to provide a fully managed Citrix environment.
	What Business Applications can be Delivered? The business and personal productivity applications which have been deployed by Centralis through Citrix Presentation Server (MetaFrame) as part of our Citrix Application Delivery Solutions.

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