Virtualization

Determining the right overall architecture that delivers a delightful user experience requires clarity around use cases, application delivery and integration, infrastructure integration and sound operational management. How you introduce, update, or expand your Citrix environment will require thoughtful consideration so that you implement the right FlexCast model that meets your needs. 

Citrix Consulting will help you better define your requirements and justify design decisions by taking into account the full functionality of the Citrix technology as well as your unique business and technical considerations. With well over 10 years of proven implementation success in virtualization, Citrix Consulting can take you through the entire methodology.

Typical Engagements

Citrix Consulting offers customized engagements to meet the specific needs of your environment; however, the following virtualization offerings are available to help you get started.

Desktop Transformation Assessment

The Citrix Desktop Transformation Assessment provides guidance for your end-to-end desktop virtualization strategy by assessing your business drivers and providing a project plan that focuses on reducing time to value.

Citrix Consulting will work with you to:

• Determine and validate key business drivers
• Enumerate and quantify desktops and applications in use today
• Group users that have common technical and business requirements
• Determine the time to value for each user group based on technical complexity and the available resources
• Transform these inputs into a tiered project roadmap based on business priorities and time to value so that the most impactful projects can be implemented first

Delivery Model

Leveraging Citrix FlexCast Delivery Technologies, the Citrix delivery model is applied to accelerate time to deployment by quickly establishing a production-ready pilot environment that serves a set number of users. These projects are multi-phase and can be five, seven, or nine weeks in length, depending on project complexity.

Citrix Consulting will work with you to:

• Gather requirements through review sessions
• Validate the use cases
• Design the environment to support each use case
• Conduct environment and user testing
• Deploy the environment to a limited number of users in a pilot