Citrix Access Platform for Manufacturing
Access to information is a competitive manufacturer’s most valuable resource.
Manufacturing organizations are constantly looking for better ways to shorten product life cycles, manage complex inventories, work more efficiently with suppliers, and please demanding customers with fast and efficient order processing. To achieve these goals, manufacturers rely on a mix of applications, including: customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management, order processing and human resources.
As well, manufacturers in today’s global economy work with networks of partners that range from suppliers to component manufacturers, dealer networks, logistics organizations, and more, some of which are located thousands of miles from the manufacturer’s data center. Increasingly, these partners are given access to the manufacturer’s business applications to improve communication and efficiencies. On-demand access to up-to-the-minute data is critical at all points in the manufacturing process. That means manufacturers need ways to speed applications being delivered from the data center to manufacturing sites, suppliers, warehouses and distribution centers, while also ensuring these applications are secure and accessible from remote locations.
The Citrix Access Platform can improve a manufacturer’s competitive position by enabling optimized, secure access to enterprise applications and information on-demand—from shop floor to executive office, using any device, at any location, over any connection, including low-bandwidth and wireless.
Citrix solutions for on-demand access in manufacturing:
- Streamline enterprise operations and reduce costs by rapidly deploying and upgrading enterprise applications
- Reduce time-to-impact for CRM projects by providing centralized management of applications and data while delivering secure, on-demand access to sales and service organizations
- Ensure application availability and peak performance with advanced optimization and traffic management
- Improve collaboration along the supply chain by delivering point-of-activity access to real-time manufacturing data, leveraging Web and wireless technologies
- Reduce product development lifecycles and improve engineering collaboration by providing on-demand access to productivity applications on any platform and secure Internet access for partners
- Reduce IT operating costs by simplifying management of applications from a centralized location, while leveraging existing technology investments
- Provide security protection within the data center, including intrusion filtering, distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense and worm protection
- Ensure data privacy from end-to-end, while accelerating application performance
- Enable on-demand access to applications for remote employees and partners
- Provide complete disaster recovery capabilities
