What is a Citrix Application Delivery Solution?

The software and services which combine to provide a more flexible and cost-effective working environment by enabling customers to Simplify, Standardise and Centralise their IT systems ... continued.

Printing

Providing a resilient, high performance printing solution is essential for a strategic solution, but remains one of the challenges of a centralised environment. Centralis use Citrix features such as the Universal Print Driver together with strict control over drivers to ensure stability and performance.

The latest version of Citrix Presentation Server offers significant improvements in printing performance.

	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.
	Ian Slee, Assistant Borough IT Services Manager, Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Design and build services

Centralis are one of the few companies worldwide endorsed as Citrix Managed Consulting Providers. As such we are able to provide the very highest quality of design and build services for Application Delivery Solutions. Centralis project methodologies and extensive experience allow customers to approach strategic projects with confidence through a phased approach based on firm deadlines, costs and deliverables. Our commitment to customer satisfaction in design and build is reflected by our ISO9000 quality status and our award of “Best Citrix Solution 2004”.

Our starting point is that no third-party software is required unless there is a business justification for it.

For more information, please see How is an Application Delivery Solution Designed and Deployed?

Management and support services

Centralis has been providing Citrix Farm Management and Support services since our first multi-thousand user deployment in 1998. Over the last six years we have developed a market leading set of software, procedures and services to assist in managing and supporting Citrix installations. Based around documented standards and best practice, the services draw on Centralis’ extensive corporate deployment experience to deliver first class services backed by regular reviews and reports against published Service Level Agreements.

For more information, please see How is an Application Delivery Solution Supported and Managed?

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Novell Citrix integration services

As a Novell Partner since 1996 and specialist in Novell Citrix integration since 1998, Centralis has developed a unique toolset and consulting service. This has enabled us to bring the benefits of Citrix solutions into Novell environments, without compromising the directory or application deployment methods. Our expertise in this area is internationally recognised and has led to the development of a market-leading software product set (see Integration). If you have an existing investment in Novell technology, through eDirectory / NDS and optionally ZENworks, Centralis can help you.

We can use your existing skills and toolset to create a highly flexible, centrally managed environment that extends and enhances the Novell environment, retaining all the benefits of the directory and packaged applications.

Centralis added-value software

Centralis develop software based on our experience of designing, deploying and supporting corporate IT solutions for customers. Our consultancy and support staff work closely with our product development teams to develop highly practical and effective software products which add value to vendors solutions. Since the launch of our first commercial product in 1999, Centralis software has been supplied to over 2,500 organisations worldwide, with over 300,000 user licenses sold.

Centralis software is designed to "plug gaps" – including bespoke software to provide a final fit of solution to customer requirements. In order to ensure compatibility with current and future releases, Centralis works closely with our vendor partners developing software based on their published and supported software developer toolkits and interfaces (SDKs and APIs).

Find out more about how Centralis software can help you get the most from your investment in our partner's solutions.

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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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