Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 9

NEWS New app ‘provides a secure and unified experience’ “With Citrix, we help organisations on their Digital Transformation journey,” said Troye Managing Director Helen Kruger. “We have shown previews of how we build smart collaboration spaces and how we help our customers secure their digital perimeters. From the outset, our goal has been to simplify and fuel the Digital Transformation by removing technological barriers between the digital and physical realms.” Troye has announced the new Citrix Workspace app The new Citrix Workspace app incorporates over 25 years of Citrix Receiver technology and expands on those investments to deliver a comprehensive workspace experience, including access to SaaS, web, mobile, Windows and Linux apps, desktops and files to provide a comprehensive workspace experience from any device. T Kurt Goodall, Troye Technical Director, points to Citrix Analytics as an essential pillar of Citrix Workspace. By providing a new, streamlined experience, Citrix Workspace delivers consistency across all devices. It is a transformative product that improves working effectiveness and raises employee engagement and productivity. “It provides predictive and prescriptive insights spanning all apps, data, devices and network,” said Goodall. “Citrix Analytics applies machine learning to data across network traffic, users, files, and endpoints to identify and act on malicious user behaviour and app performance anomalies.” roye has announced the new Citrix Workspace app that provides a secure and unified experience for all apps, content and devices for IT and users. ///////////////// Westcon gives customers endpoint options with Avaya J-Series phones L eading value-added distributor Westcon has added the latest range of Avaya IP endpoints, the J100 Series of IP phones, to its expanding portfolio, providing resellers access to a series of powerful handsets that streamline the communication experience and offer innovative features in an ergonomic design. The J100 Series of IP phones offer the user ease of use with seamless integration into an existing technology environment. Available with both SIP and IP support, this series is also known as the Essential Experience series and is designed to deliver reliable voice communications in the modern workplace. Each phone in the series comes with an immersive user interface, complete with access to a full month calendar view, contact groups and button personalisation IDC survey the contrary is true as 57% of respondents believe desk phone usage will only increase; while a mere 15% feel it will decrease,” said Mandre Stander, Avaya Product Manager at Westcon. “While some might feel that desk phone usage is in decline, according to a recent “Locally we have evidenced this to be the case, as there is continued demand www.intelligentcio.com Westcon has added the latest range of Avaya IP endpoints to its portfolio for improved functionality within the desktop phones. The Avaya J100 Series supports multi-media communications which ultimately improves the desktop experience of the end user. Furthermore, the series boasts Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, making it ideal for the user with always-on requirements.” INTELLIGENTCIO 9