Citrix Solutions for the Virtual Workplace – outside of headquarters!

2. Citrix Solutions for the Virtual Workplace – outside of headquarters! Name Volker Schmeiser Titel Regional Manager

3. Today’s Goal To demonstrate a proven and cost-effective solution for providing enterprise applications and information to remote offices and a mobile workforce – extended day workers, road warriors, mobile professionals and mobile field agents.

4. Agenda • Challenges • Remote Office Connectivity • Customer needs • Citrix’s Solution • Testimonials • Workforce Mobility • Customer needs • Citrix’s Solution • Testimonials

5. Challenges • Access to enterprise resources from outside of headquarters can be either time-consuming and/or expensive dependent on connection and bandwith • Consistency of data and uniform software releases are difficult to guarantee within dezentralized structures • Installation of software and management of software versions is very time-consuming • Security of data and access is a real challenge • Support for widly spread workforce is resource intense • Performance can be an issue for mobile workers

6. Remote Office Connectivity: Customer needs • Connect remote locations quickly • Ensure consistency of data and applications for employees in remote offices and in headquarters • Access data in real-time • Improve operational efficiency • Cut costs • Guarantee end user support for all locations – inside and outside head quarters • Keep number of IT staff to a minimum

7. Citrix Solution for Remote Office Connectivity • Delivers seamless, secure access to enterprise applications and information for remote offices • Providing customers greater security, improved productivity • Lower operating costs

8. Remote Office Connectivity Solution Enterprise Applications (Windows, UNIX, Mainframe) Central Office Application Serving Portal Services Internet or LAN/WAN Remote Office Familiar Web Portal Interface LAN/WAN Dial Up

9. Bayer Austria Ges. m.b.H. • Company Profile: • Bayer Austria has 200 Employees • Bayer is represented by some 350 companies employing 117,000 people on all continents. • Requirements: • Employees working in remote offices need to have access to all business-critical applications and data • Challenges: • Remote access to client/server-applications proofed to be very time-consuming if not impossible due to bandwith issues

10. Bayer Austria Ges.m.b.H. (cont.) • Results: • Reduction of TCO by 100.000 € per anno • Easy and secure remote access even with low bandwith • Data consistency and uniform application versions for all Employees, be they working at head quarters or remotely • End users in remote offices get the same support as users in head quarters • With Citrix MetaFrame low bandwith of remote connections is no longer an issue: Each Employee can work from home nearly as fast and effective as if he was at head quarters. At home response times are sometimes even shorter than they used to be at workstations in the LAN sometimes. With the Citrix solution we could lower the TCO significantly. (Dr. Walter Steinbach, Head of Administration, Bayer Austria GmbH)

11. Summary of Benefits • Cost effective single-point of access to enterprise resources from any location with any device – be it remote locations or mobile workers • Easy, predictable access over any connection – wired, wireless and web. • Cost effective access via broadband or dial-up leased lines. • Security and centralized management.

12. Workforce Mobility: Customer needs • Improve Workforce Productivity, reduce Costs • Provide mobile workers with safe and secure access to corporate resources - from any location and with any device • Ensure good performance even with low bandwith • Guarantee security for data and connection • Web & Wireless Web enablement

13. Citrix Solution for Workforce Mobility • Enhances workforce productivity • By delivering a single, secure point of access • To full-featured applications and information • Following you to where you work – home, hotel or warehouse floor.

14. RAG INFORMATIK GmbH • Company Profile: • RAG INFORMATIK, big German IT Service Provider offering Application Service Providing for SAP applications • Requirements: - E. Heitkamp GmbH, German building constructor, need Microsoft Office-, SAP-, CAD- and construction software for their workforce • Challenges: • 1000 work places at 20 sites and up to 300 variable building locations shall be provided with applications from one central computer center

15. RAG INFORMATIK GmbH (cont.) • Results: • With Citrix application server computing all employees at 20 sites and up to 300 variable building locations can access 13 different applications deployed in RAG‘s computer center • Total IT costs lowered by 30% through Citrix Application Server computing and centralized administration • Since the MetaFrame server farm went live, the IT-World has become a lot easier for our customer Heitkamp: The computer center and all resources are now being administered centrally by RAG INFORMATIK. This enabled Heitkamp to save up to 30% of their IT costs within short time. (Bernd Mennemeier, Manager Support Department, RAG INFORMATIK GmbH)

16. Summary of Benefits • Single point of access from any location with any device • Easy, predictable access over any connection – wired, wireless and web • Application Server Computing is a highly secure solution • Integration of third-party authentification solutions • Data encryption • Cost reduction through centralized management • Good performance even with low bandwith