Raise team productivity
Raise team
productivity
with Citrix
collaboration
tools
The collaboration toolkit you need
to work productively.
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Solutions Brief
Raise team productivity
Solutions Brief
If we want to get real about increasing business
productivity, we have to be clear about the
challenges we are up against: teams are distributed
and include external contributors, like freelancers and
contractors; work is done on the go from places like
airports and home offices; and mobile device usage
will continue to grow over the next decade.
These developments have disrupted the workflows
and routines that worked for us for so long. Email
and shared network drives kept us going in years
past, but now those tools are more disruptive than
they are productive. With people working from
different places and devices, the cloud is the answer
to productivity and business-continuity problems.
This brief defines the cloud-based collaboration tools
offered by Citrix that are designed to be easy to use
and used together.
Real-time collaboration: communicating effectively
The first part of working with your team is real-time communication, like audio
and web conferencing. To work together effectively, teams must be able to
communicate live in an environment of distributed workers, differing time zones
and cultural mash-ups. In these situations face-to-face conversations make
communication clearer and more effective.
Whether you’re conducting a company all-hands webinar, leading a team
meeting or training a customer on your product, video enhances the online
collaboration experience.
The Citrix collaboration products:
• Meet face to face from anywhere with GoToMeeting.
• Present globally to your company, customers or prospects with GoToWebinar.
• Train anyone, anywhere, online with GoToTraining.
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To make the audio
portion of your web
conferences easy
and affordable to
access, you can add
integrated toll-free and
international phone
numbers via OpenVoice
Integrated in addition
to your built-in toll
and VoIP options.
It works seamlessly
with GoToMeeting,
GoToWebinar and
GoToTraining, so you
have audio options
that suit your needs.
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GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTraining all include:
• HDFaces one-click HD video conferencing
• Screen sharing
• On-screen annotation tools
• Session recording
“Your-time” collaboration: teaming up online
When you’re not working together in real-time through live conversations, you’re
often still collaborating. One example of asynchronous—a.k.a. “your-time”—
collaboration is annotating project documents and sending them to your team with
your feedback attached. You’re working together but on your own time.
The way to gain productivity in your-time collaboration is to work in an online
environment where teams can access files, post project updates, keep track of
tasks and calendars and send messages to the team all in the same environment.
To manage your workday and your team’s projects all in one place, try Podio—the
collaborative work platform that lets you work the way you want to. And when you
need to securely send and store large files with internal or external stakeholders,
try ShareFile, the file-sharing platform built for business and approved by IT.
Podio and ShareFile offer:
• Access to the platforms from any device
• Customizable workspaces for different industries
• Private, cloud-based collaboration spaces
Collaborative workflows: managing projects, teams and tasks
Workflows are the part of our workday that you don’t really think about. Your
workflow is a mix of the programs you use to manage your team, your projects
and your tasks. To imagine a place where you can manage all of this, think of a
social network framework, where there are spaces for events, private messages,
live activity streams and user tagging. The Podio framework is similar to this, only
instead of being “social for the sake of social,” Podio moves social tools out of the
silo and into business apps. With Podio workspaces, you unite people, content
and communication to structure your work.
Podio is based on the idea that a one-size-fits-all approach to work tools limits
and frustrates people, so the Podio App Market is filled with more than 700 free
purpose-built apps for any business process—all of which can be modified and
customized by you without any technological know-how necessary. If you can
drag and drop, you can create a Podio app. Whether it’s project management,
interfacing with clients or partners, tracking leads, planning an event, coordinating
marketing campaigns or receiving customer feedback, Podio has an app that will
simplify the process. And, if there isn’t an app for what you’re working on, it’s easy
to build your own—no technical skills needed.
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Conclusion
McKinsey Global Institute predicts that teams can achieve productivity gains of up
to 25 percent with social communication and collaboration tools. That’s an extra
day per week! To increase productivity this year, opt for an easy-to-use, cloudbased collaboration toolset from Citrix.
Resources for achieving business agility
For more white papers, case studies and on-demand webinars, visit
news.citrixonline.com/resources.
For best practices, company announcements and research about modern
work styles, please visit the GoTo Blog at blog.citrixonline.com.
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud company that enables mobile workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere,
easily and securely. With market-leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and data
sharing, Citrix helps organizations achieve the speed and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use
at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
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