Examples from the IT field

Before we go ahead and conclude this chapter, I would like to provide some real-world examples from consulting projects that I've been heavily involved in, which demonstrate use cases for Citrix XenApp from the field.

• A nationwide transportation company implemented hosted shared desktops via XenApp for its fleet division to use locally installed applications. Lock down policies were put in place to ensure that no administrative changes could be made by users to the shared desktop image.
• A leading credit institution implemented hosted applications via XenApp for its teller workforce in branch locations in order to be able to work with legacy banking apps that are no longer supported in later OSes, such as Windows 7 and 8.
• A major hospital in the Southeast U.S. implemented XenApp to host performance-intensive Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software. High-capacity XenApp servers were dedicated to an individual application that was published for end users (a method...