Citrix Access Platform for Financial Services

Financial institutions bank on an uninterrupted flow of information
For financial services institutions, time is literally money. Applications need to be consistently available, with performance that doesn’t waiver. Downtime and even poor response time can mean lost revenue, and lost customers. Security is likewise paramount. In many cases, confidentiality is not only expected, it’s legally required to comply with laws, including GLBA and Sarbanes-Oxley. At the same time, the mix of applications such firms must support, in order to service customers and employees alike, grows continually more complex.

The Citrix Access Platform helps financial services firms address this range of requirements, providing corporate workers, branch offices, independent agents, business partners, mobile workers and customers, with reliable, secure, on-demand access to applications and information. Institutions can deploy new services faster, improve customer service, control risk and reduce costs. From one location, IT can deploy new applications and information without touching a single desktop, and deliver legacy applications over the Web without rewriting a single line of code. Heterogeneous environments resulting from mergers and acquisitions can be integrated into a single cohesive enterprise, with all users enjoying reliable, high-speed performance, even over low-bandwidth connections. And the Citrix Access Platform can help institutions do all of this while typically decreasing bandwidth consumption and increasing the capacity of existing server resources—benefits that go directly to the bottom line.

Citrix solutions for on-demand access in financial services:

Extend retail banking, securities and insurance applications and information to remote branch offices, independent agents and mobile workers
Meet government and industry regulations like GLBA, Anti-Money Laundering Act and Patriot Act
Easily deploy and manage applications for geographically dispersed call centers
Increase productivity for mobile workers on wired and wireless devices by providing high application performance and secure access to corporate resources
Enable easy deployment and centralized management and control of complex, diverse enterprise applications
Ensure application availability and peak performance with advanced optimization and load balancing, combining traffic managers and remote access systems
Deliver enterprise single sign on, to improve security and increase user satisfaction and productivity
Enable effective Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies
Ensure privacy of sensitive financial data from end-to-end, while accelerating application performance
Protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, worms, viruses and application-level intrusions that threaten application security and availability