| | May 2015 9CIOReviewcomponents Citrix has added to its platform to make the mobile work style manageable, productive and secure in enterprises of any size--from two-person startups to the Global 3000.The idea is simple. The Internet of Everything (also referred to as the Internet of Things) needs to provide a point of entry for anyone, anywhere. And that's what the Citrix platform is making possible. It's becoming the interface we'll be able to use to marry our identity to our devices and enable them to assist us, largely behind the scenes and unnoticed, throughout the day.Let's reimagine that same meeting scenario in the IoE world of the near future.Entering the conference room at two, you greet Carl and Lydia seated comfortably around the table ready to engage in the weekly sales meeting between ten regional offices. As other participants begin to join the call, the conference bridge loses a trunk line to the Seattle office. No one realizes this because the call is automatically moved to another bridge with the same pass codes. No one "logs in" to the meeting because users are automatically joined to the conference either as they enter the room when they are detected via the device they have in hand, or they are automatically called via their preferred device while remote or in transit. Meeting documents are presented to them based on their attending device profile.Your entrance to the iBeacon-enabled conference room is detected, and as the moderator, your entrance opens the call. No time is spent taking attendance because similarly-equipped "smart conference rooms" note the arrival and departure of other remote attendees. During the meeting, all notes and updates made to documents are synchronized to all attendees' cloud drives and a summary of decisions and actions are distributed. The call ends five minutes early.Making meetings like this possible will require the introduction of other technologies, like big data and analytics. Consider the automatic call routing in the second meeting scenario. Real-time analytics can identify problems like failing calls and take immediate action to re-route calls while preserving other meeting details (like the passcode). Analytics that look at meetings after the fact can help managers spot trends in meeting length, attendance and other factors that can help them make communications more efficient, or even more cost-effective. For example, determining which offices are able to make effective use of VoIP and which are relying on landlines can help shape future infrastructure investments.These are exactly the types of scenarios Citrix and CSC are developing to help companies adopt a mobile workstyle. Since 2001, we've been working together to create a seamless workplace that's secure and collaborative, and is designed to help companies make better decisions faster. The entire Citrix XenMobile product suite, as well as XenDesktop, ShareFile and others are critical elements of the CSC MyWorkStyle offering.And having said all that, you're still thinking about that meeting ending five minutes early, aren't you? That may be pure science fiction, but the rest is entirely plausible and coming soon. Today's mobile work style seems like it's a real productivity booster
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