Citrix and Google share a vision of a future of work that is personal, adaptive, and agile. In this world, end users reach peak productivity while data and apps remain secure. It’s why we’ve partnered together for years and why our joint customers continue to ask us to innovate together.
G Suite has become a powerhouse in the workplace, with over 5 million paying businesses using the productivity suite. Citrix Workspace is a unified, secure, and intelligent work platform that transforms the employee experience by organizing, guiding, and automating work to help people perform at their best. With the general availability of Citrix Workspace’s intelligent capabilities, customers can now incorporate the tools they love from G Suite into a work feed that transforms the employee experience.
Citrix Workspace microapps deliver-single purpose actions from enterprise apps like G Suite. Microapps drive productivity because employees are not only using G Suite daily, but also a myriad of other apps. While the number of apps employees use is high, the total functionality in each app that we use is generally low. This creates productivity challenges for end users, who are forced to context switch between apps to only use a sliver of functionality.
After IT admins incorporate G Suite into Citrix Workspace, they’ll be able to deliver productivity-boosting, time-saving G Suite microapps to their employees in minutes. Thirteen templates for G Suite are now generally available, making microapp creation for G Suite a breeze. These templates include the ability to book resources like conference rooms, event reminders, searching the company directory, and notifications about a new teammate.
While out-of-the-box templates will provide immediate productivity benefits, our easy-to-use microapp builder helps customize Citrix Workspace for your organization’s needs.
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Take, for example, Hugo, who leads his organization’s recruitment efforts. He must review job offer letters before they go to the candidate. Today, hiring managers e-mail Hugo the letter, which kicks off an inefficient and time-consuming e-mail approval workflow.
With Citrix Workspace, Hugo’s organization simplifies this approval process with a microapp. Every time an offer letter gets uploaded to a designated Google Drive folder, Hugo receives a notification in his personalized work feed. Hugo can then review and approve the letter without leaving Citrix Workspace, improving the approval experience while also saving time.
Although users depend on G Suite to drive productivity, they’re also using apps from other providers to do their jobs successfully. When users are forced to context switch between apps to complete tasks, productivity can decline up to 40 percent. Take Phoebe, a product manager for a software company. To track the progress on her upcoming release, she logs into Jira. She notices a critical issue logged by Ben, an engineer, which will require a follow-up meeting. Phoebe switches to Google Calendar and searches for a mutually available time for her and Ben to meet.
Microapps from Citrix Workspace simplify and automate this process. Instead of forcing Phoebe to log into Jira to look for tickets, Citrix Workspace can automatically identify any changes or additions. Phoebe’s company designed this microapp to detect when a critical issue has been logged and to create a meeting with her and Ben on their Google Calendars.
Citrix Workspace then notifies Phoebe of both the issue and the newly scheduled meeting. Phoebe no longer spends her valuable time on low-value tasks like scrolling through tickets and searching calendars for open time slots. Instead, she’s able to focus on work that matters.
Citrix Workspace is the solution for enhancing work — a single, secure intelligent work platform that organizes, guides, and automates the most important details people need to speed decision-making and collaboration within the context of work. When combined with the collaboration and productivity apps from G Suite, organizations everywhere can transform their employee experience.
Learn more about the Citrix and Google partnership, Citrix Workspace on Google Cloud, and Citrix Workspace’s intelligent capabilities.
