The annual Citrix iForum Gauteng conference, to be staged at Vodaworld next week, will focus on how to turn mobile workforce challenges into opportunities for savings and increased productivity.
[VIDEO]Chris Norton, Citrix manager for SA, says the mobile workforce increasingly requires easy, secure and instant access to the corporate IT infrastructure. Standing in the way of this access is the fact that there are thousands of access devices available on the market and hundreds of applications running on multiple architectures.
"Access heterogeneity and infrastructure heterogeneity are key challenges in the way of the fully mobile workforce," says Norton.
[VIDEO]With this in mind, Citrix iForum Gauteng 2003 will assess the business case for a mobile workforce, looking at the technical challenges and solutions involved. Citrix iForum brings technology leaders from around the world to SA to give customers in-depth technical and business background, outlining how to use Citrix technology, the costs and return on investment of the mobile workforce.
Norton says technical challenges can be overcome with solutions such as the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite, which allows customers access from any location on any number of devices. The technology enables organisations to extend any existing application, including Unix, Windows and Java applications, to the entire organisation in a scalable and flexible way. Simply by publishing the applications, all authorised users are able to work remotely, says Norton.
With Citrix MetaFrame Secure Access Manager, all users are authenticated and granted role-based access to the network, ensuring they only access the information they require.
[VIDEO]In his keynote address, Citrix VP for EMEA Stefan Sj"ostr"om will provide an overview of the state of business in southern Africa and highlight how Citrix can help local customers turn the challenges of enterprise information access into opportunities for IT savings, increased employee productivity, improved business efficiency and enhanced competitiveness.
Delegates can break away to business and technical tracks including overviews of the benefits of server-based computing to the enterprise with detailed information on the MetaFrame XP Presentation Server and its value-add to Microsoft Windows Server 2003; understanding Citrix solutions; enabling enterprise access with MetaFrame Secure Access Manager 2.0; improving productivity using new Access Suite platforms; and measuring return on investment on Citrix solutions.
Citrix iForum Gauteng 2003 will be held at Vodaworld on Thursday, 24 July. For more information, go to www.citrixiforum.co.za
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