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Citrix Delivers Superior User Experience and Security in New XenMobile ReleaseToday, Citrix announced a new release of XenMobile® enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution. XenMobile 10 optimizes the mobility experience for end users while automating and simplifying the IT deployment and management process. This release includes compelling design enhancements for streamlined workflows, which are part of the XenMobile suite of integrated productivity apps, enabling users to have the best business experience on their mobile devices. For IT teams, the new release delivers a unified EMM platform that simplifies the management and deployment of mobile apps, data and devices, offering businesses the flexibility and security to scale easily and support a growing mobile workforce. Enterprise mobility initiatives have become a fundamental way of securely supporting workforce productivity, increasing business agility and enabling globalization and scale. As mobile growth continues, enterprises require a scalable and flexible infrastructure to manage and support an influx of mobile devices and applications. At the same time, there is immense pressure on IT to provide access to apps and data on any mobile device that combine security with a superior and familiar user experience. XenMobile stands apart from other offerings based on experience, security and flexibility in every aspect of product design and development. This differentiated focus makes it a best for business mobility solution for both employees and IT administrators. Experience higher productivity with 'optimized for business' workflows XenMobile offers the most complete set of business productivity apps that deliver an optimized business experience for mobile users. The new release features multiple design enhancements improving the overall experience for power users and enabling them to create new workflows with the XenMobile suite of integrated business apps. These include: WorxMail™, WorxWeb™, WorxNotes™, WorxEdit™, WorxDesktop™ and ShareFile®. For example:
The new XenMobile release also provides mobile users with a new and easy to use Self Service Portal for managing important tasks, such as tracking, locking and wiping lost or stolen devices. Based on Citrix testing, this can result in an estimated 20 percent reduction in IT help desk tickets from mobile users, which in turn, lowers IT operations costs and gives control to the end users. End to end security minimizes the risk of deploying enterprise mobility In addition to securing the mobile device, productivity apps and data storage, the new XenMobile release delivers enhancements to secure the interactions between the device, the network gateway and the servers. The new release supports strong authentication for applications using RSA (News - Alert) Adaptive Authentication, a leading risk based authentication and fraud detection platform, and provides support for FIPS 140.2 advanced encryption, which is based on the U.S. government security standards. Specifically, these new enhancements strengthen the encryption between device to network and network to server connections, and also, secure the administrative console connections. Flexibility for IT and better time to value with a Single Plane of Control The new release of XenMobile simplifies IT administration tasks, from enrolling, provisioning, configuring and deploying to troubleshooting of the entire mobility stack, including devices, apps and the infrastructure. The latest release unifies the server infrastructure for mobile device management (MDM) with mobile application management (MAM). This provides IT administrators a single plane of control to efficiently manage apps and devices from a single virtual server. Citrix tests show that with the unified infrastructure, IT can deliver better time to value for the business by managing the mobile devices, apps and data in half the time, while also lowering IT costs by reducing the need forhardware and VM licenses. The single management console speeds up the deployment time by 75 percent with reduced number of steps needed to configure and complete the setup. For example, IT can now create one policy and apply it across all platforms and devices, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone (News - Alert). In addition, the integration with NetScaler® gateway extends IT's view into the network infrastructure from the same unified console, which helps administrators manage automated connectivity checks of multiple systems that are part of the mobility environment. Benefits for Partners XenMobile's new unified infrastructure with a single plane of control provides the Citrix partner community a simpler architecture, which is significantly easier to setup in the field and reduces the time to get the use cases deployed for their customers. Citrix offers a wealth of resources for the partners to get started on the new XenMobile release. For more information, please check out the mobility tracks at Citrix Summit 2015, or visit Citrix partner programs. Quotes Jesper Blomqvist Rydstrom, Head of Workplace, Defense and Security Company Saab "Citrix delivers a powerful EMM solution, and we are looking forward to rolling out the new release. The simplified architecture in XenMobile provides a streamlined experience for IT, enabling us to scale and manage a growing mobile workforce in an efficient and highly secure manner, while preserving end user experience." Gerdien Hay, Domain Head of End User Computing, Standard Bank Group "XenMobile brings the core elements of enterprise mobility together, including a unified platform for greater IT efficiency, stronger security, and a unique set of innovative, productivity apps for our end users. I highly recommend XenMobile 10 to new customers." Scott Solomon, Field Technical Consultant, Ingram Micro (News - Alert) "The first thing I noticed was how clean the GUI was in the new XenMobile release. It is very simple and easy to navigate. Overall, I think this version is a huge leap forward to an already fantastic product. I expect this will accelerate adoption rate due to its simplicity and ease of deployment." Chris Marsh, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Mobile App Strategies, 451 Research "With XenMobile, Citrix is going beyond having just a comprehensive EMM solution. Through integrations of its Worx apps and ShareFile service for example, it is able to deliver strong mobile user experiences, which will appeal to companies wanting to invest in mobility to drive greater worker productivity without introducing disparate and fragmented sets of technologies that they might otherwise have to deal with. With these kinds of innovations, Citrix is one of now only a handful of vendors leading the pack as consolidation begins to force out the long tail of EMM players." Availability The new XenMobile client is available for XenMobile customers to download today. The server enhancements will be available in Q1 2015. For more information on XenMobile 10, please contact Citrix sales. Related Links
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About Citrix Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products and services, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company's key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and is subject to change without notice or consultation. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any contract. © 2015 Citrix Systems (News - Alert), Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix, XenMobile, Citrix ShareFile, ShareFile, Worx, WorxMail, WorxWeb, WorxEdit, WorxDesktop, WorxNotes, NetScaler and Citrix Workspace Suite are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
