Mark Templeton

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• Reducing Time to Benefit in Citrix Deployments
• Alan Webber
• Regional Manager, Northern Europe
• Citrix Consulting

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Session Objectives

• Show how leveraging the right expertise reduces
  the time to benefit
• Explain how Citrix and its Partners can
  supplementyour in-house expertise

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Project Lifecycle
Consulting
Education
Technical Support
Analysis
Design
Build Test
Rollout
Support
Project Lifecycle
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Consulting

• Alan Webber
• Regional Manager UK, Nordics Benelux
• Citrix Consulting

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Our Guiding Principles
Mind Share Skills Share
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The Project Lifecycle
Licences
Proof of Concept
Assessment
Design Reqts
Detail Design
Initial Development
Integration
Testing
Pilot
Build to Scale
Operation
RFx
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Synergy through Partnering
APPLICATIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SYSTEMS
Proof of Concept
Proof of Concept
Systems Assessment
Application Assessment
Systems Requirements
Application Requirements
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Rubber Stamps
SYSTEMS
APPLICATIONS
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Proof of Concept
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Infrastructure Assessment
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Design Reqts Analysis
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Detailed System Design
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Citrix Design Template
3rd Party Design
Documentation REVIEW and Report not a Rubber Stamp
Weve done the Design, Please rubber stamp it
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Our Core Activities

• Risk Time Management at the early phases
• Analysis
• Proofs of Concept
• Access Requirements Analysis
• Design Design Validation
• Detailed Systems Design
• Initial Design Environment Build
• Defining and leveraging best practice
• Provision of relevant expertise to support your
  project

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What Makes an Expert?
EDUCATED
EXPERT

• PRINCIPLES
• Citrix White Papers
• Citrix Admin Guides
• Education Certification

NOVICE
EXPERIENCED

• PRACTICE
• Observation
• Experimentation
• Implementation

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How to Engage Citrix Consulting

• Start talking to us early!
• At the RFI/RFP creation stage
• We can review your project goals with you
• In the light of these we can explain how we might
  help
• If you decide youd like us to be involved
• State this as a requirement in your RFI/RFP
• Ask respondents to detail how they will build
  Citrix Consulting into their offers to you
• Our preferred model is to work under subcontract
  to partners as part of the larger project

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