This blog was co-authored by Scott Hilt, Sr. Corporate Account Manager.

Why do the top 10 highest-ranked universities rely on Citrix solutions?

Citrix solutions for technology in education enable them, and all education organizations, to create a secure, mobile-ready campus that provides flexible, scalable education IT for institutions and a seamless experience for students, faculty, and staff.

Citrix has optimized the end user’s technology experience to drive engagement and productivity, enhanced security at the end-user level when accessing all apps and files, and simplified IT by enabling workload flexibility and providing one management plane for your hybrid multi cloud transformation.

What could this mean for your institution? A combination of increased tuition revenue, reduced CapEx and OpEx, increased staff productivity and job satisfaction, and a mitigated risk of a data breach. Let us show you how!

Join Us at EDUCAUSE

Live in the Citrix booth at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we’ll have engaging presentations featuring top Citrix partners and interactive demo stations to show how you can intelligently deliver new services and resources. Get hands on with the latest technology in Citrix booth #1817:

  • Differentiate your institution by providing a personalized, organized, guided, and automated mobile-first technology experience that will drive admissions, student success, and retention, and will improve staff productivity and job satisfaction with Citrix Workspace with intelligence.
  • Citrix with Google Cloud Platform, Chrome Enterprise, and G Suite will enable your institution to modernize your resources and drive student engagement.
  • Create a virtual campus for both traditional and online students by allowing secure access to all applications and files through single sign-on from any location on any device with Citrix higher education licensing options.
  • Delivering high-end graphics and analytics applications using thin clients or a BYOD strategy without sacrificing performance, all while enabling multi-purpose classroom/lab philosophy.

Get entered to win an Amazon Echo Show by attending an in-booth presentation!

Don’t Miss Our Breakout Sessions

We’ll have two breakout sessions, and one lucky attendee will win an Apple iPad Mini after each session.

Customer Panel Discussion: The Citrix journey – Using Citrix to deliver education: Every institution is facing different challenges with delivering educational services to their constituents. In this panel, 2019 Citrix Innovation Award Winner Indiana University and Post University will share their journeys and the outcomes they have realized. Innovation and experience have been critical success factors to ensure all constituents are served. Get the full session details.
Tuesday, October 15, from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Digital Transformation: Revolutionizing the way education is delivered, for both students and faculty: Context switching between applications and resources consumes valuable instruction time, impacting overall education efficiency. Citrix Workspace intelligence extracts relevant tasks from all your apps for a personalized interface to user actions, applications, and data. Join Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist, and Carisa Stringer, Director, Product Marketing, Desktop & Applications Group, and discover how to enhance student and staff productivity with the power of digital workspace intelligence. Get the full session details.
Wednesday, October 16, from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Give students, faculty and staff a great user experience while IT maintains control. Visit us at EDUCAUSE and experience how Citrix enables institutions to:

  • Extend the campus for a global reach
  • Deliver applications and data on any device
  • Expand learning environment to the community
  • Reduce IT costs and improve the experience for all

Learn About 2019 Citrix Innovation Award Winner Indiana University

Take a peek at how Indiana University moved away from a traditional approach to IT that lagged in agility and resulted in large expenses, and used Citrix technology to deliver their instructional programs for more than 100,000 students and 20,000 employees across seven campuses and an extensive online learning presence.

Today, Indiana University runs Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops across more than 300 servers and more than 70,000 users. Citrix Networking solutions ensure secure access regardless of user location. Published applications and desktops are delivered from Windows Server 2016 and 2012R2 images serving up Microsoft Office apps and educational software. Citrix Workspace Environment Management helps to lock down the images and Citrix UPM roams only the necessary parts of the user profile.

With a modern, digital workspace powered by Citrix, Indiana University can scale and handle the latest apps and organizational needs as required in the future. And when it comes to exploring options in the cloud, IU is covered in that area, as well, with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops fully supporting workloads in the major public cloud vendors. It’s a sense of freedom that empowers the university to deliver the most innovative technology solutions to its users.

Learn about Indiana University’s award-winning Citrix solution in their EDUCAUSE session on Tuesday, October 15, from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.!

Can’t make it to EDUCAUSE 2019? Click here to learn about the latest Citrix solutions for technology in education. And check out some of the innovative ways our education customers are finding in these stories from Purdue University, Texas A&M University, and our 2019 Citrix Innovation Award winner Indiana University.