Digital Workspace Innovations with Citrix IOT

A lot of the focus of previous blogs has been on the creation of an effective Digital Workplace for the individual.  Invariably this has focused on the accepted outcomes of a Digital Workplace strategy such as mobility and collaboration.  Yet whilst sat here in our newly refurbished London office, it is evident that a true Digital Workplace experience must transcend the virtual and the physical world.  One example of this is where the user meets the office and meeting room scenario.

Picture the scene. I’m sure like me, many of you have been here before.  The experience of finding a desk when you visit the office, followed by  the ‘complications’ of hosting and attending effective meetings with all of the challenges of work space IT and remote collaboration.  For many of us this leads to lost productivity, increased travel costs and general day to day frustration caused by a lack of “fluidity” in our physical workplace environment.  An environment that doesn’t reflect and can’t adapt to our needs.

Many meeting space solutions exist to address points within this scenario, whether meeting room booking, or collaboration tools.  Yet the piece that seems to be missing is the end to end integration that creates an effective experience.

Recently, whilst attending Citrix Summit I was introduced to a solution called Citrix Smart Spaces for Collaboration.  This solution addresses many of the common challenges and frustrations by integrating a number of different technologies, using Citrix’ Octoblu platform, which sits at the heart of Citrix’ Workplace IOT strategy.

Rather than explain the solution in words, we took the opportunity whilst attending the event to record a short video.  In the video, Darron Knibbs (Infrastructure Architect for Computacenter) and John Moody (Citrix Systems Engineer) talk through the solution and some of the key scenarios and use cases that the solution addresses.

For me, there are two key takeaways having watched this short overview.  The first is clearly the wider opportunity presented by IOT and the Octoblu platform to optimise the work environment and accelerate the digitisation of mundane, but critical processes.  The second is of the significant benefits that exist by removing these basic points of friction that exist across the tools that form the Digital Workplace.  This is just one example… there are many others!

Hope you enjoy the video!