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Increase Performance and Decrease Costs when Delivering Autodesk Applications

Autodesk Applications Require Greater Efficiency and Flexibility of Use

Designers, engineers, and managers in utilities, telecommunications, and government organizations depend on Autodesk’s AutoCAD Map 3D software for integration of computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS) information during project design and maintenance.

Organizations that provide AutoCAD Map 3D software and other Autodesk applications to their workers must be able to deliver high application performance and reduce workstation costs, while providing the best user experience possible. To support these users in branch locations, organizations typically install the software locally on high-end workstations and laptops. However, this traditional, decentralized approach can lead to slow performance over the wide area network (WAN) when connecting to back-end resources, raise security concerns, and place a heavy burden on IT staff that may have to travel to remote offices to provide support.

Benefit

Citrix XenApp provides the following key benefits:

Lowest-cost Windows application delivery

  • Minimum requirements for the end-user device that include a Windows operating system with only the minimal hardware specifications needed to support the operating system. No additional hardware is required for the end-user device to support the AutoCAD Maps 3D application, because the software is installed centrally on the server(s) and not on each end-user device.
  • Application installation and delivery is fast and easy, because the AutoCAD Map 3D application is installed only once on the server(s) in the datacenter and delivered virtually to end-user devices.

Strongest protection for applications and intellectual property

  • The applications and data are stored and run centrally in the datacenter. Therefore, no application data remains on the end-user device.

Outstanding application performance over any network on any device

  • Citrix XenApp uses a highly optimized presentation layer protocol called ICA to serve the screen and keyboard I/O to the end-user device. Because of the efficiency of this protocol, minimal bandwidth is consumed for the presentation of the application and printing tasks.
  • User access is simple, because only a small Citrix XenApp client is needed on the end-user device. That client comes in a multitude of types, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac. The ICA protocol supports many types of connections from anywhere, for example, through a wireless device, such as a Verizon or AT&T mobile phone, or through a secure KIOSK in a coffee shop.


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