BSG Citrix Services
As an accredited Citrix Silver Partner, BSG has extensive experience in designing, deploying and operating Citrix Access Suite based solutions for its clients and its own internal IT systems. To help you achieve a Consolidated Application and Data Solution, BSG provides a number of packaged services aimed at centralising data and application access through Citrix software solutions:
The following describes the cost, scope and objectives of those services and outlines how they work:
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Citrix Health Check Service
The BSG Citrix Health Check Service is a 3-day, fixed cost and fixed scope engagement. The objective of the Citrix Health Check Service is to evaluate your existing Citrix infrastructure against current Citrix best practices, delivering recommendations for performance improvements and provide justification for migrating to Citrix Access Suite 4.0.
An example of the deliverable associated with a Citrix Health Check Service is:
- Documentation of the current Citrix environment and proposed enhancements
How does BSG's Citrix Health Check Service work?
Many organisations that have deployed Citrix are simply not maximising the benefits that can be gained from the solution - ultimately meaning they are not getting the full benefit from their installation.
BSG provide highly skilled and experienced Citrix consultants to run Health Checks on your implementation to make them more efficient and to ensure the configurations maximise the benefits that Citrix technology provides. BSG's Citrix consultants will look at Server Performance, Software configuration and the overall LAN/WAN infrastructure of the Citrix environment to determine overall performance and functionality.
The BSG Citrix Health Check Service includes a complete environmental review that will look at the successes and potential flaws of the core aspects of your existing deployment.
Citrix Scoping Service
The BSG Citrix Scoping Service is a 3-day, fixed cost and fixed scope engagement. The objective of the Citrix Scoping Service is to investigate your organisation's current environment and business requirements in terms of access to applications.
An example of the deliverables associated with a Citrix Scoping Service is:
- Documentation of the current environment and proposed costs for a new Citrix solution
How does BSG's Citrix Scoping Service work?
With new Citrix deployments, BSG begin with an Infrastructure Assessment (IA). This is a structured process, part of the Citrix Consulting Methodologies, which evaluates the suitability of your organisation's environment for the successful deployment and use of Citrix solutions. This typically involves qualifying your organisation's current infrastructure and requirements against established best practice and design principles. The IA concludes with a written report and presentation to your organisation covering the key findings of the exercise across twelve critical technology areas, such as Application and Data Consolidation, Mobility, Application Security, Business Continuity, Application and Systems Management.
Citrix Proof of Concept Service
The BSG Citrix Proof of Concept Service is charged on a "time and materials" basis. The objective of the Citrix Proof of Concept Service is to trial a proposed solution by delivering a lab based test environment.
An example of the deliverable associated with a Citrix Proof of Concept Service is:
- Engineering and Consulting Services to prove a Citrix Solution suitable for your organisation.
How does BSG's Proof of Concept Service work?
The Proof of Concept Service (PoC) provides a small deployment suitable for initial validation and demonstration purposes, typically delivering applications which are critical to a project or business activity. This is particularly suitable for organisations with bespoke applications and specific environments requiring thorough Citrix testing to de-risk a Citrix project.
To minimise the cost of the Proof of Concept environment, it will typically consist of two load balanced servers and the delivery of a limited set of manually installed applications.
Citrix Design Service
The BSG Citrix Design Service is a fixed cost and fixed scope service. The objective of the Citrix Design Service is to provide a comprehensive design for a proposed Citrix environment using industry best practices.
An example of the deliverable associated with a Citrix Design Service is:
- Documentation of the proposed design to support a Citrix Access Infrastructure
How does BSG's Citrix Design Service work?
The Design phase of a project creates a detailed Architecture Design document, which is used to plan and commission the subsequent Build & Test of the Citrix environment. At this stage the full production application suite, design and overall solution is subjected to extensive testing to prove suitability for your organisation's production deployment.
The strategic Citrix Design & Build is based on a detailed project plan, with critical elements including:
- Citrix Architecture Design
- Infrastructure Design and Build
- Scripting, Deploying & Testing Critical Applications
- Validation of Design against Business Requirements
- Secure Application Delivery Design
- Creating Development & Test environments
- Printing Solution Design
- Change Control and Operational Procedures
- Rolling out the completed solution
The strategic design of Citrix is a structured process. BSG consultants follow BSG's own proven methodologies combined with Citrix Consulting Methodologies.
Citrix Deployment Service
The BSG Citrix Deployment Service is executed and charged on a project-managed basis. The objective of the Citrix Deployment Service is to provide engineering and consulting services to deploy the infrastructure and Citrix software for the proposed Design.
An example of the deliverable associated with a Citrix Deployment Service is:
- Engineering and consulting services to deploy server and security infrastructure based on a proposed design.
How does the BSG Citrix Deployment Service work?
The deployment phase uses BSG internal Citrix Accredited consultants and engineers to deploy the solution. The deployment phase initially enters a pilot phase which provides a way of fine tuning the rollout and minimises end user impact of a new Citrix environment. The pilot also provides both a method of user acceptance testing (UAT) and reduces the time for full scale deployment.
Post Pilot phase and successful UAT, full scale deployment can begin. Once deployment has been completed, the consulting project leader and engineering resource will be available for floor walking, to ensure the users are supported following deployment.
Citrix TCO and ROI Service
The BSG Citrix TCO and ROI Service is a 5-day, fixed cost and fixed scope engagement. The objective of the Citrix TCO and ROI Service is to justify the business need to move towards a Citrix Environment.
An example of the deliverable associated with a Citrix TCO and ROI Service is:
Documentation detailing the business impact and cost justification for moving to a Citrix Solution
How does BSG's Citrix TCO and ROI Service work?
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) Service provides financial analysis of deploying the Citrix Access Suite. This service provides a document and presents at board level the ROI and TCO analysis for moving to a centralised Application Access solution.
The service analyses the current environment and compares it with a proposed Citrix Solution, comparing variables such as:
- Application Management Costs
- Application Delivery Costs
- Infrastructure Management Costs
- Data Management Costs
The document also looks at ways a Citrix solution can enhance a your organisationsenvironment by adding functionality such as:
- Mobility and Secure Application Access Scenarios
- Business Continuity Scenarios
- Data Archival and Regulatory Scenarios
As a Citrix Silver Partner, BSG has access to all ROI and TCO tools provided by Citrix