The IT Melting Pot!

Ok, so Citrix has now presented their new offering after merging Zenprise into their product portfolio. And is this what you have been waiting for?

My personal answer to that is probably yes, now you have all the capabilities (almost) out there to get your BYOx program/strategy and architecture in place or if you just want to add additional capabilities to your existing service offerings.

I must say though that the packaging is compelling and VERY interesting!

Citrix Mobile Solutions Bundle

The Citrix Mobile Solutions Bundle, which is comprised of XenMobile MDMand CloudGateway, offers a complete enterprise mobility management solution that enables IT to manage and secure devices, apps, and data.

XenMobile MDM Edition

XenMobile MDM Edition offers market leading mobile device management capabilities that deliver role-based management, configuration and security of corporate and employee-owned devices.

What I’d like to see is a roadmap where Citrix becomes an even more complete provider of technology in the Mobility segment. I still believe that Mobility is not only about smartphones and tablets and all the apps that you shall deliver to those devices and non-managed and non-corporate owned devices. There is still a need to provide device management of corporate assets that are not smartphones and tablets! And why should you have to implement another device management service/product for those.

So please Citrix = add Windows 7/8, OS X and Linux device capabilities as well in your almost complete Enterprise Mobile Management offering!

The offering is of course also today an early release where the former Zenprise product and CloudGateway is provided under the same marketing and price bundle but I’m waiting for when we have one (1) enterprise app store! And all capabilities from one technical architecture and product that you enable each capability on a need basis and are licensed accordingly.

But this is a great step for Citrix and I must say that I’m looking forward to see where this is going, I mean the feature set is pretty awesome!

Compare Features	XenMobile MDM Edition	Mobile Solutions Bundle
Enterprise MDM
Device management
Configure policies
Security and compliance
Scalability and high-availability
Ease of administration
Provisioning and self-service enrollment
Enterprise integration
Monitor and support
Decommission devices
Secure email, browser and data sharing apps
@WorkMail
Email attachment encryption
@WorkWeb
ShareFile integration
Microsoft SharePoint integration
Mobile app containers
Mobile application management
MDX Vault
MDX Interapp
MDX Access
App wrapping
Unified app store
Enterprise app store
Follow-me apps
Identity management, single sign-on and scenario-based access control
Active Directory integration
Instant application and data provisioning
Single sign-on to apps and data
App requests
Instant application and data de-provisioning
Strong authentication
Secure remote access
Policy enforcement

More information about the technologies have also been added to eDocs!

Of course also made their competition table:

Compare the Mobile Solutions Bundle to other enterprise mobility solutions

These are exciting times and I’m looking forward to play around with the whole bundle!

Read more about XenMobile/Mobile Solutions here!

//Richard