: Citrix Presentation Server Benefits

Cost-Effective Application Management
Citrix® for Windows Servers lowers administration costs by giving an IS/IT professional central administration of applications such as Visual Enterprise®. Without Citrix®, upgrading the desktop software requires the IT administrator to manually install or upgrade the user’s software, or hope the user can upgrade their own applications. It takes substantial time and coordination to administer desktop applications, especially for remotely located desktops or branch office environments. Relying on the end user to upgrade or install their own applications can result in uncertain and unreliable results. All these issues can be avoided by deploying Citrix®. The IT administrator only needs to upgrade the application on the server side, resulting in easier, faster and more reliable application management.

Visual Enterprise®
With the configuration of Visual Enterprise® on Citrix®, the internal staff and remote users will have access to the information they need. Citrix® will allow the remote user to have the same functionality as those users at the office. From any location, the remote user will have access to Visual Enterprise® with the capabilities of accessing, editing and updating records, generating reports and printing them at their remote location. Citrix® will also allow for remote support of the entire computer network and more importantly the Visual Enterprise® environment.

Reduced Client Hardware Costs
Since all of the processing and storage occurs at the server, the requirements for client devices are minimal. Client devices can be anything from a thin client to a fully configured Personal Computer. The Citrix Secure Access Manager® browser plug-in supports thinner client deployments than the full Citrix® ICA client. By letting users access current applications on hardware that might otherwise be of little use, Citrix® can help companies extend the useful life of older machines. Using Citrix® also gives companies great flexibility if they are planning to upgrade their desktop hardware because it can now be accomplished in easily managed phases.

Better Performance
Users who access applications over a LAN will also benefit greatly from using Citrix®. If a remote user is accessing a multi-user database, like Visual Enterprise®, over a LAN or slow network connection, the performance can be very slow; all of the data that the client requests (layout, script, data, etc.) needs to transmit through the network. In a Citrix® environment, the mouse and keyboard commands are the only things that need to transmit through the network.

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