In this fast-paced market, agility matters. The ability to quickly open a location or integrate an acquisition can make all the difference in seizing opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. IT teams must empower business growth by supporting new customer service models and providing a great user experience for their customers, employees, and development community. However, they must do this while reducing the risks of data breaches, compliance violations, and business interruptions.

With large data breaches making the news almost daily, security and compliance are more critical than ever before. But in an effort to secure data, IT teams are often forced to implement restrictive or cumbersome policies that harm the user experience. Making employees take too many steps can harm productivity and cause them to use services that are outside of IT’s control. Ironically, this shadow IT creates unnecessary compliance and security risks. To achieve the best business and security results, IT teams must address these challenges while reducing the cost and complexity of delivering corporate resources.

Citrix solutions help financial services organizations quickly and securely meet new business demands—while improving the employee and customer experience. Through a flexible architecture, IT teams can deliver apps, desktops, and data wherever employees work, on any device they use, and with the controls needed to meet increasing compliance and security demands.

    Your employees want technology that simplifies their lives and makes it easier for them to get work done. However, many financial institutions have not assessed how their employees work and the bottlenecks they face when performing tasks. Without this knowledge, institutions may deliver an employee experience that is antiquated, rigid, and complex.

    For example, workers often need to use multiple apps to complete a single task. According to Harvard Business Review, context switching results in a 40 percent loss of productivity.1 Once employees get distracted, it takes them an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to re-focus on the original task.

    A study by HubSpot found that about 75 percent of marketers and salespeople lose up to an hour each day on data entry and connecting information that is located in different tools. Thirty-one percent of the survey’s respondents said that their most frustrating tasks are switching between multiple tools and managing passwords.

    The costs related to these inefficiencies can quickly add up. A financial institution may need to hire more salespeople to make up for the lost productivity or end up closing fewer deals.

      Enterprise productivity, profitability, and success in meeting business objectives are dependent on the ability of workforces to access and utilize the applications, data, email, and other IT services necessary to complete job tasks. However, increased pressure to enable workforce mobility and the distribution of IT services across a variety of public and private hosting environments have challenged organizations to grant secure and reliable access to those resources. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) decision guide is intended to provide actionable advice on the best practices and solutions organizations should adopt to empower end-user productivity while minimizing risk profiles.

        Digital transformation is the rocket fuel that helps companies boost productivity, engage consumers, and empower their people. It has spurred companies to reimagine how work gets done by creating digital workspaces designed to foster agility, enhance service levels and accelerate time to success. No longer tethered to corporate desks and cubicles, employees work as virtual teams – communicating and collaborating anytime, anywhere, using the applications and devices they need.

        Forty-three percent of employees spend at least some time working remotely1. A rise in employee mobility and applications moving to SaaS has businesses relying on their IT departments to ensure employees stay connected virtually anytime, and from any location. However, the new application infrastructure for SaaS, BYO, and the on-demand, work-from-anywhere environment is also posing new workflow challenges and security risks. In many cases, IT lacks end-to-end visibility and control, and struggles to deliver an optimal user experience for their employees and customers.

          Security pros have the challenging task of using finite budgets to protect their business from every possible attack type in the threat landscape. One strategy for approaching this challenge is to note historical attack trends and, after determining the most highly probable to occur in the future, prioritize attack protections. This report analyzes common attack trends responsible for breaches in 2018 to facilitate this approach.

            For clinicians, mobility solutions have the potential to increase flexibility, consolidate remote access, and improve the user experience. IT can centrally manage the environment and have full visibility and insight. This is why investments in mobility solutions are expected to surge in the next several years.

              Healthcare IT is a driving force in bringing about better patient care, and mobility is a key component. Mobility in the healthcare world is unique: clinicians roam from one shared workstation to another, use their tablets on rounds, check data on personal smartphones, and work on home computers. They need to access clinical systems and vital patient data on any system at any time. But the benefits of mobility bring hefty requirements for IT, especially as healthcare entities embrace the journey to cloud computing.

                Citrix Workspace is purpose-built to deliver the highest possible level of employee engagement. It is an intelligent workspace solution that enables you to deliver and manage your specific work environment at the pace your healthcare organization demands. Citrix Workspace powers a great experience for IT and employees alike. IT is centralized; onboarding is fast; access to apps and data is unified; finding information is easy; endpoint management is simplified; and workflow is smart, streamlined and automated. And, security is people-centric — analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence provide actionable insight to reduce risk and improve operations.

                What’s more, Citrix digital workspace delivers secure access to apps, desktops, data, and services from any device, over any network, to empower mobile clinicians with the freedom and flexibility to choose how they work. For IT, a Citrix digital workspace breaks down the technology silos of desktop and mobile computing, and centralizes the approach to service delivery, making it possible to reduce costs while delivering the experience people demand and the agility the business requires.

                  Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are here, but they aren't futuristic robots taking over our jobs. They're collaborative technologies that can help us do our jobs better. These are opportunities, not threats. And since you're reading this ebook, chances are you're ready to dive in and learn more about benefiting from AI.

                  In reality, you already have. AI is in the apps you use every day: Airbnb, to suggest rentals near you; fraud detectors to monitor your credit cards; spam filters to protect your inbox; Facebook, to identify

                  AI can provide added certainty and reassurance, reduce risk, boost productivity, and save time in our personal lives—and it can do the same for organizations like yours.

                    Harmony Endpoint is a complete endpoint security solution built to protect the remote workforce from today’s complex threat landscape. It prevents the most imminent threats to the endpoint such as ransomware, phishing or drive-by malware, while quickly minimizing breach impact with autonomous detection and response. This way, your organization gets all the endpoint protection it needs, at the quality it deserves, in a single, efficient, and cost- effective solution.

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