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Citrix Consulting - Best Practice Series Establishing Business Priorities

Date 26th January 2012 Simon Jackson, Architect, Citrix Consulting Services

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Establishing Business Priorities and & Mapping them to your Desktop Virtualisation project
Simon Jackson Architect Citrix Consulting

Agenda
! Establish the Business Priorities ! Assess the Time to Value ! Establish a Technology Roadmap

Establishing Business Priorities

Kick off Meeting

Kick off Meeting

Flexibility
! Desktop Solutions that can be adjusted based on user, role, location and application requirements ! A solution that can rapidly grow to accommodate more users and applications ! Simplified migration to new desktop OS

Management
! Reduce cost by simplifying management ! Remove the time spent installing and updating individual client devices and workstations ! Provide consistency, reducing support costs

Workshifting
! Deliver business agility & efficiency through
! Flexible Working ! Offshoring ! Outsourcing ! Mobility

! Minimise the impact of transport disruption and natural disasters

Workshifting
! Deliver business agility & efficiency through
! Flexible Working ! Offshoring ! Outsourcing ! Mobility

! Minimise the impact of transport disruption and natural disasters

Executive Mobility
! Enable the whatever, whenever, wherever executive on any device
! Windows / Apple Mac ! iPhone / iPad ! Android Phone / Tablet ! Blackberry / Playbook ! ChromeBook

Bring Your Own Devices

! Embrace Consumerisation ! Secure, self-service apps and follow-me data

Security
! Provide SmartAccess solution based on users location and client device ! Users can access data centrally, without the need to copy data locally ! Provision access quickly and rescind access instantly.

Performance
! Improve performance by placing the desktops in close proximity to the back-end resources ! Improve application performance without the need for desktop upgrades

Establishing Business Priorities

Time to Value

User Segmentation is the activity that classifies IT users along common requirements that lead to common technical solutions.

Users, Apps and Groups

! Which users can I serve with a single project? ! Each user group will become its own sub-project ! Group users by:
! Applications ! Primary location ! Mobility requirements ! Risk tolerance ! End point capabilities

Users, Apps and Groups

! Which users can I serve with a single project? ! Each user group will become its own sub-project ! Group users by:
! Applications ! Primary location ! Mobility requirements ! Risk tolerance ! End point capabilities

Users, Apps and Groups

! Which users can I serve with a single project? ! Each user group will become its own sub-project ! Group users by:
! Applications ! Primary location ! Mobility requirements ! Risk tolerance ! End point capabilities

FlexCast Model

Project Roadmap
2

Physicists
Business Impact
4

Field Sales
XC+XA Ap p s

Office General
HSD

Office Special
V oo P I D led

Citrix Confidential - Do Not Distribute

Time to value

Project Roadmap
2

Physicists
Business Impact
4

Field Sales
XC+XA Ap p s

Office General
HSD

Office Special
V oo P I D led

Citrix Confidential - Do Not Distribute

Time to value

Desktop Transformation Accelerator

!Assessment Tools & Templates Inventory your environment and develop your project roadmap !Guided Design Checklist of questions and options for each critical design decision !Peer Benchmarks Compare against thousands of other desktop transformation projects !XenDesktop Best Practices The latest Citrix best practices for informed implementation decisions

citrix.com/dtaccelerator

Summary
! Start with the business priorities ! Use the Desktop Transformation Accelerator or engage with Citrix Consulting to help you:
! Define User Segmentation ! Assign the most appropriate FlexCast delivery model ! Map out Business Impact vs Time to Value ! Create your Project Roadmap

! Go back to the decision makers, verify the assumptions. Ask for sponsorship for the next steps

What should you do next?

! Sign-up and watch the rest of our consulting webinar series! www.citrix-download.com/webinar/consulting
! Desktop Virtualisation Primer ! Establishing business priorities and mapping these to your Desktop Virtualisation project ! Analysis - understanding your existing IT infrastructure ! Design - key concepts and approaches for designing your desktop virtualisation solution ! Build/Test - validating your design and making improvements ! Rollout - going live and operational with your virtual desktops

What should you do next?

Other great web links ! http://www.citrix.com/desktoptransformation ! http://flexcast.citrix.com/ ! http://bit.ly/XDHandbook ! http://www.citrix.com/dtaccelerator