Matrix42 Workplace Management.

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1 Matrix42 Workplace Management

2 Business Challenge People are bringing ipads, Macs and Smart Phones to work to help them be more productive, but these devices only offer access to a limited range of corporate resources like and perhaps a few documents. This presents a challenge for IT departments because they have no practical, secure way to provide secure access to more corporate resources on these new kinds of devices, and that directly impacts employee productivity and bottom line results. IT is once again thrown in the middle and unfairly cast as a "business prevention" team. The Matrix42 Solution Matrix42 delivers all of the corporate resources a person could want right to their fingertips, on demand. We do this by providing secure virtual desktop environments on just about any kind of device, from an aging desktop PC to a brand new ipad. The Matrix42 solution provides everything needed, and is based on a complete lifecycle approach that starts with the request, flows through the provisioning process, and continues with ongoing management and compliance of the virtual desktop environment. Real-world scenarios Imagine for a moment that today a person needs access to their regular corporate PC environment and tomorrow will be in a hotel in a foreign city and needs access to a complete engineering design workstation to modify a plan they will present to a customer the following day. This kind of scenario happens every day in cities around the world, and until now there was no easy solution. With Matrix42, the person need only have access to an ipad, a Mac or a Windows laptop, and they can have a complete, working engineering workstation at their fingertips in a few seconds time. In a second scenario, an employee gets on an airplane after forgetting their corporate laptop at the airport security checkpoint. For many people this could be a career-limiting disaster. With Matrix42, it is no problem at all, because all of the information and data on their laptop was seamlessly synced with the cloud. They can stop by a store, pick up any laptop or ipad, and be back in business in minutes.

3 Enterprise Service Store Matrix42 delivers an attractive enterprise service store that offers individual software titles and complete virtual desktop environments to any employee, any time day or night, either inside the firewall or outside. We also offer this service store as an ipad or iphone app that serves up all of the software and virtual desktops the person has the rights to request. No internet connection on the road? No problem. Just request the virtual desktop before you leave the house, download it to your ipad, and hit the road. It just works. Virtual Desktop + Infrastructure Provisioning and Management Unlike simple service catalog solutions, we don t stop at the request layer. Matrix42 provides the underlying automation as well, with a full set of provisioning and management tools for the Citrix infrastructure which allow you to not only scale up virtual desktop server capacity on demand, but also serve up any virtual desktop profile in the store, on demand. Once the virtual desktop is provisioned, we provide complete configuration management from patch management to virtual applications, to software license management. It is the most complete solution available on the market today from anywhere. The Secret is in the Layers With a typical virtual desktop infrastructure, each virtual desktop offering is usually supported with a unique virtual disk image that contains all of the specified software and configuration for the environment. These images can easily number in the hundreds or thousands in larger organizations and because each image needs to be maintained to corporate standards, it creates an image management nightmare. The Matrix42 approach is different. In our solution, each virtual desktop offering is unique as well, but because we do it with a profile which describes the contents of the virtual desktop environment, a single base image can be used for every offering, and is then combined on-the-fly at provisioning time with the software and settings needed to create the complete virtual desktop. The result: One image and a few dozen software packages to maintain instead of thousands of images. Real savings. Real convenience. Accelerate Virtual Desktop Transformation For organizations moving from a physical to a virtual desktop environment. Especially for large groups of employees, it is not possible or practical to migrate all of them from physical machines to virtual desktops in one step. Typically it s a complete one-by-one, rip-and-replace operation, which results in significant disruption to large numbers of end users, and forcing them to re-create their environment the way they want it, wasting hours or days. With Matrix42, large populations of physical machines can be migrated from Windows XP or Vista, to Windows 7 virtual desktops, or to new physical machines, complete with all of the user s data, applications and settings intact. Try that with anyone else s tools! Matrix42 is the only company in the world who can provide this capability today.

4 Key Functionality Provisioning and management of the virtual desktop infrastructure Provisioning and management of the virtual desktops on top of the infrastructure Physical to virtual, physical to physical, and virtual to physical migration. User-centric profile management ensures that the right environment is always created for each user. Disaster recovery is inherent to the design and ensures that virtual desktops damaged by configuration errors or user mistakes can be instantly rebuilt from the profile. Questions? Phone: +1 (888) MX42 USA Tel.: +49 (0) 6102/816-0 Self service user portal provided through standard web browser and new iphone and ipad applications. Citrix Best Practices Matrix42 worked side by side with Citrix to enhance the Citrix Virtual Desktop Transformation best practice framework. Citrix engineers and field teams provided direct input and support for our engineering efforts, so the solution is grounded in best practices proven to work in the real world, and ensure results. All user data and settings are constantly synced between the client device and the hosted virtual desktop in the cloud

5 About Matrix42 Matrix42 has a long heritage in client lifecycle management (since 1992), and our solution is based on proven technology that extends full lifecycle management from the physical desktop environment to the virtual desktop environment seamlessly, with one solution. With nearly 2,000 customers globally and development and support centers in the United States, Europe and India, and backed by one of the largest technology companies in Europe, Matrix42 is well equipped to support both large and small organizations. Matrix42 is the exclusive client lifecycle management solutions for BMC Software and we have a strategic alliance with Citrix Systems. Our software is used by Fortune 500 companies and large service providers around the world.

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