Citrix Presentation Server

Delivering Windows Applications over slow links at the Lowest Cost—Anywhere

Lowest-cost Windows application delivery

Stack helps you to deliver 100 percent of your Windows-based applications without leaving the data centre by using Citrix Presentation Server. This helps eliminate the need to install or manage applications on individual user workstations making application testing, resource provisioning, management and support much easier and far less costly. We let the underlying intelligence automatically select the best delivery method for the user, the application and the location, and you watch application performance improve dramatically.

Outstanding application performance over any network

Stacks approach will improve application responsiveness and increase user productivity with the patented application virtualization techniques perfected over years of research and testing. Many applications frustrate users as they wait for responses from across the network. Over high-latency or bandwidth-constrained WANs, these problems are even worse with users seing "freezing" or typing ahead of the screen display. Presentation Server greatly reduces network bandwidth requirements and mitigates latency issues, because with virtualized applications, only mouse movements, keystrokes and screen updates cross the network. Even data-laden and graphics-heavy applications perform better, keeping users active and productive. The application sits where the data is so very little crosses the WAN. Users often describe the xperience as watching a "TV picture" of their application - the application and the data remain in the data centre and only the image of the screen is sent to the user.

Fastest application delivery to all users—anywhere

Stack helps you accelerate the deployment of your applications so you can quickly respond to changing business needs.We help you manage the delivery of all your Windows-based applications from one centralized location-—no need to go from desktop to desktop, travel from office to office, or wait for laptops to return to headquarters. With Presentation Server, you deliver applications and updates instantly anywhere, any time—-to offshore employees, outsourcers, new branch offices, new mergers & acquisitions, or mobile workforces.

One interface, one logon, one great experience

Users need one simple way to access applications, regardless of where they are or what device they are using. With SmoothRoaming, 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.

Continuous availability and reliable, fast application performance

Stack helps you provide high application availability for an “always-on” user experience with application load management, automated server recovery and failover. With Stacks help you can rapidly troubleshoot issues by using detailed and actionable reports that monitor the end-user experience and identify root-causes anywhere in the system-—the application, server, network or desktop. Presentation Server gives you end- to-end visibility into application usage and performance, key to satisfying and verifying application service level agreements (SLAs) and increasing user satisfaction and productivity.

Application Performance Monitoring

Citrix® Presentation Server™ Application Performance Monitoring, powered by Citrix EdgeSight™, enables IT to quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot application issues that impact the user experience.

Citrix® Presentation Server™ is an end-to-end application delivery system that offers optimal application performance and flexible delivery options. Presentation Server™ enables the best access experience for any user, with any device, working over any network. With the secure application architecture, organisations can centralise applications and data in secure data centres, reducing costs of management and support, increasing data security, and ensuring fast, reliable performance.

Presentation Server allows IT to deliver secure applications as a service providing on-demand access to users, while affording IT the flexibility to leverage future application architectures. It provides several benefits that make it a strategic system for application delivery.

Strongest security for applications and intellectual property

With our help you can control, protect and retain intellectual property centrally to dramatically reduce the chance for data loss and theft. Presentation Server helps you prevent data from leaving the data centre 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 authorised to access. These dynamic attributes also define where users may store and print sensitive information. Such strong data and application 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.

In short, a Citrix solution allows IT to overcome many business challenges and do much more with fewer resources.

Presentation Server supports many of today’s IT and business initiatives

Remote Office Connectivity
Workforce Mobility
Business Continuity
Server Consolidation
Regulatory Compliance
Business Process Outsourcing