Case Study: Chamber of Crafts for Lower Franconia achieves secure mobile access to Windows desktops on iPad with Citrix

Handwerkskammer brings Windows desktops to the iPad

The Chamber of Crafts for Lower Franconia, which represents roughly 18,500 member companies, needed a way to give employees, external trainers and mobile staff secure, flexible access to full Windows desktops and applications from anywhere — including iPads — without exposing internal systems or installing apps locally. Rising mobile use and the requirement to isolate external users drove the IT team to seek a centralized, secure remote-access solution.

With help from partner net2net they deployed Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, Citrix Access Gateway with token-based authentication, and Citrix Receiver on iPads, migrating to VDI for specialized applications and streaming apps from a central master image. The result: secure, centralized delivery of desktops and apps to diverse user groups and devices, fast access to Windows workspaces on iPads, simplified management and high user satisfaction.