Citrix Access Essentials

Go To Work Over the Internet

Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 is the most cost-effective way for small organisations to acquire all of the essentials for convenient, secure, remote access

Citrix Access Essentials™ enables small organisations with five to 75 users securely to access order entry, billing, scheduling, CRM, accounting and other Windows-based line-of-business applications over the Internet with just a Web browser. The cost-effective software makes centrally maintained information as easy to update and retrieve from home, while travelling, or from Internet cafes, as if at the main office. Citrix Access Essentials software inexpensively addresses your remote requirements, by layering simple wizard driven administration and secure role based web access on top of the Microsoft Terminal Services foundation.

What Problems Does Access Essentials Solve?
Anyone who owns or manages a small business knows how difficult it can be trying to enter orders, bill customers, schedule resources, manage accounts, and generally run line-of-business applications when you leave the main computer facility – usually located at headquarters. Firewalls that block connections, impossibly poor response over slow lines, security threats from public networks, and improper or inadequate equipment at the remote end are just some of the obstacles that get in the way.

Unable to revise or view your organisation’s central records remotely may be forcing you to make poor trade-offs between keeping up with your business and attending to your personal life. For example, you may be spending long hours at the office trying to complete data entry or generate reports before leaving, because it can’t get done anywhere else. Or you may have others drive into the office during the weekend or holidays just to make minor corrections or updates needed by the next business day. Without a doubt, those extended work days and unnecessary commutes create wear and tear on you and your colleagues. Not to mention the long delays that your customers and suppliers experience when they need something outside normal business hours.

Citrix Access Essentials enables you and others in your team to take back those wasted hours by providing timely, convenient and responsive access to your central computer resources from anywhere – just go to the nearest Internet connection and log in with a Web browser. You’ll feel just as if you were right at the office next to the main server.

Citrix Access Essentials 2.0 offers a number of significant enhancements, including:

v Higher availability through automatic load-balancing across multiple servers in a co-located server group

v More comprehensive management through centralised set-up, monitoring and alerting features

v Enhanced security options including use of a separate demilitarized zone (DMZ)

v Two modes of operation – Basic mode keeps it simple for single server deployments. Advanced Mode turns on multi-server features such as load-balancing, profile management and master server failover

v Availability of an upgrade path for Citrix Access Essentials users to the full Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 solution.

Application execution that’s independent of the access device Access Essentials combines innovative, patented techniques from Citrix and Microsoft that allow programs to run centrally on a Windows server, while appearing to run on a user’s local, remote, or mobile computer. Keystrokes and mouse clicks are relayed in real time over any network to this server, which in turn sends screen updates and audio outputs directly to the user’s computer. Windows Terminal Server Client Access Licences that are required to run in this multi-user mode are fully integrated into the Access Essentials installation, configuration, and operation wizard.

The best access experience for everyone
Access Essentials ensures the performance and success of critical processes for the business, provides users with fast, easy access from their most convenient location, and reduces time, expenses, and resource requirements for the system administrator.