Tech Fusion By Citrix Ready

With stakeholder capitalism and conscious capitalism entering the mainstream, we wanted to explore the future of work and how businesses are not just leveraging technology to help run their business but also transform the employee experience.

This week's guests are Danijela Nandi, Senior Product Manager at Citrix Workspace, and Nancy Pautsch, Chief Evangelist of Stakeholder Value (President) of Envision IT. They talk about hybrid working and how technology makes teams more productive and helping to build a more conscious culture where everyone has a sense of purpose. They also discuss the ROI of improving employee engagement and wellbeing.

About Envision IT

Envision IT is a soulful company whose business is technology optimization, ensuring that mainstream technologies in businesses today are an enabler to employee engagement and business success (versus being an obstacle).

Nancy Pautsch is the Chief Evangelist of Stakeholder Value (President) of Envision IT, a group of curious and compassionate people growing a soulful company. Envision's mission is to enrich the lives of their stakeholders. Their business is technology consulting focused on optimization to ensure technology is an enabler to employee engagement and business success. Envision is the go-to technology partner for organizations across the U.S.

Nancy has been in the technology industry for 20+ years. Keys to her leadership are a growth mindset and fostering collaborative cultures that breed a grounded sense of purpose while striving for excellence. As a thriving Firm of Endearment, Envision has been lauded locally for their contributions to the community and economy; recognized globally in the technology industry as 'best of the best' for engineering quality, innovation, and customer experience; and highlighted by the Conscious Capitalism movement as a model for stakeholder orientation.

On the Tech Fusion Podcast, we explore how technology empowers employees and organizations to unlock innovation, engage customers, and be productive—anytime, anywhere. We talk with Citrix and their partners to learn more about how they are collaborating to solve real-world problems.

At Star2Star Communications, they are on a mission to help organizations to overcome the reliability and quality limitations of other communications technologies. The company has built its reputation around unifying customers'​ voice, video, fax, instant messaging, and presence management into a single, easy-to-use system.

In today's episode, Mick Miralis from Star2Star and Citrix's Nitin Sharma discuss the future of intelligent workspaces and how they are evolving for connected workers. The guests also talk about building a cohesive environment that enables connected workers to be effective and productive while removing complexity and friction between applications. We also learn more about how Citrix and Star2Star are collaborating to bring this vision to life.

The switch has been flipped - and there's no going back. In today's episode, Heath Spencer, CEO of TraitWare, and Anil Kumar from Citrix join me in a conversation about the importance of cybersecurity. With remote work and hybrid working here to stay, I learn how Traitware and Citrix are working together to help companies adapt to their new digital surroundings.

As we approach the first anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns, the enterprise has seen enormous change. Experts say that remote and hybrid working is likely here to say. According to a recent Upwork survey, by 2025, 36.2 million Americans will be working remotely, an 87% increase from pre-pandemic levels." One area hugely affected by remote work is cybersecurity.

As cybercrime increasingly tops the news, it is critical for all enterprises to ensure that solid cybersecurity plans are in place. But where do we start? Fortunately, there are solutions that drastically reduce the risk of attack and make life easier for the entire company while also saving on costs in the process.

Citrix Workspace technology creates the space to innovate Employee experience is everything—get it right with an intelligent workspace Empower employees with a workspace platform that unlocks their potential and gives them the tools to thrive. A tailored view of apps and personalized tasks removes distractions and guides people to the work that matters for a more intelligent, fulfilling approach to the workday.

The team at deviceTRUST believes that digital workspaces can only be secure with a complete set of contextual information. The company brings together all the context and control needed to protect your digital workspace while allowing the modern access your users demand.

Many businesses are currently balancing new and legacy applications along with infrastructure challenges. They are also challenged with empowering teams to work from anywhere on any device and in a secure manner.

Citrix is on a mission to create a unified workspace. But how do Citrix and deviceTRUST complement each other? In today's episode, Sascha Goeckel from deviceTRUST and Anil Kumar share how they are working together to further secure and control digital workspaces.

In the Citrix Ready Podcast series, I explore how technology can empower people and organizations to unlock innovation, engage customers, and be productive—anytime, anywhere. In today's episode, I learn more about how collaboration and hybrid working environments are reshaping the future of work.

It recently occurred to me that Microsoft, Citrix, and AMD were all playing roles in how I was working. But we only think of them as solutions in their own right. So I wanted to try and get people from all 3 companies onto the podcast to understand the role that they play in our working life.

Kevin Raines, Senior Product Marketing Manager for HPC at Microsoft, Isidro Gonzalez, business development executive with the AMD, and Nitin Sharma, product and solutions marketing strategy all join me on the podcast. We discuss how they are collaborating together and reshaping and reimagining how we work anywhere and everywhere.

Kevin is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for HPC at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of Information Technology experience, including worldwide project implementations, managing opportunity life cycle, delivering mission critical projects, and managing a $200+ million portfolio. The Enterprise solutions have yielded strong ROI, greatly improved operational performance, increased customer revenue, and developed the foundation for continuous improvements.

Isidro Gonzalez is a business development executive with the AMD Radeon Technology Group. He has over 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience, specializing in adding value to corporate organizations through strategic partnerships, product alignment, and GTM execution. Combines a clear understanding of customer needs with the nuances of technology and current market trends to guide organizations to leading market positions worldwide.

Nitin Sharma is a leader in product and solutions marketing strategy at Citrix. He is responsible for designing and executing global, companywide go-to-market strategies for digital workspace solutions. With a passion for solving business problems with technology solutions, he has held various solutions sales and marketing roles—targeting audiences at all levels: executive, line of business, and IT.

COVID-19 forced many industries to rethink their use of technology. Many of which you wouldn't automatically associate with tech. As teaching went from the classroom to remote learning, I wanted to learn more about how Citrix and its partners were working together to work beyond their traditional IT infrastructure and embrace new equipment that is transforming education.

After learning more about how Citrix and Wacom were working together to ensure this transition was much easier, I felt compelled to share that story with you all. Todd Smith from Citrix and Mindy Thielges from Wacom join me in a conversation about transforming our students, teachers, and parents' approach to education through technology.

Mindy Thielges is a Senior Sales Specialist at Wacom. Mindy is an evangelist for digital pen and ink technologies in education – and is a key player in Wacom's growing education initiatives across K-12 and higher education.

Before joining Wacom, Mindy spent 15+ years focused on education technology as a sales leader, in addition to delivering professional development workshops for teachers on 3D printing and robotics, and also spearheaded a workforce initiative to provide certification training in computer-aided design software for displaced mechanical engineers.

Mindy's passion for education is driven by seeing how the teaching tools she has sold over the years connect students with each other while they learn critical thinking skills and spark their creativity to design a better world.

Todd Smith is a Sr. Sales Engineering Manager at Citrix Systems. In this capacity, Todd manages a team of technical sales professionals providing customers and partners with modern workspace solutions for business challenges. He has been responsible for the healthcare vertical, as well as emerging products. His particular areas of expertise include; digital transformation, the delivery of mission-critical applications, desktop and server virtualization, mobile computing, disaster recovery, IT compliance, information security, and green IT.

Prior to Citrix, Todd has worked in the technology industry for more than 30 years in multiple industry verticals including; IT Auditing and Consulting for HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL, and ISO certification and compliance, IT Consulting, Program Management, Outsourcing, and IT Operations Management, Application Development and Management for Financial Services, and IT Services for Transportation Systems. Todd earned a BS in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, and resides in Danvers, MA.

Having been a Citrix Premier Technology since 2003, eG Innovations has developed key expertise in Citrix technologies. Their solutions are used to monitor some of the largest Citrix deployments in the world.

eG Innovations provides IT performance monitoring and digital intelligence solutions that automate and dramatically accelerate the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of IT performance issues in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Many of the world’s largest businesses use eG Innovations’​ solutions to enhance IT service performance, increase operational efficiency, ensure IT effectiveness, and deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT investments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. But role will they play in the future of work? and how are Citrix and eG working together?

Barry Schiffer from EG Enterprise and Ed Duncan from Citrix join me in conversation about all this and much more.

Zuryc is a partner to its clients, solving business problems with technology solutions. By eliminating the burden of traditional IT obstacles, Zuryc’s seasoned professionals deliver an experience focused on security, scalability, and speed.

With a keen ability to anticipate tomorrow’s needs today, Zuryc pairs customers with technology that evolves as business goals change and that anticipates and avoids obsolescence. Zuryc leverages over three decades of experience in the information technology industry, with service areas including security and cyber defense; IT as a Service (ITaaS); cloud technology; business technology; and hardware.

Zuryc stays ahead of the curve in making insurance agents, financial advisors, and, most importantly, their clients financially successful at every stage in their lives. PlanFacts is a suite of web-based financial planning tools for lead generation, Social Security maximization, retirement planning, insurance needs analysis, estate planning, and business continuation.

I wanted to learn more about all this, but also the relationship with Citrix. Cyrus Hurly from Zuryc join me on the podcast with Chandrika Srinivasan from Citrix. We talk about how together they are building a new future of work and how to avoid past obstacles and serve the evolving needs of businesses. Most importantly, I learn how, together, they are focusing on serving a billion users.

In this episode of the Citrix Ready Podcast series, I wanted to explore one of the tech's unsung heroes, application monitoring. Traditionally, a dashboard would warn IT teams something was wrong, and they would react to the problem as users jammed the service helpline asking for updates.

In 2020, businesses need to be more proactive and address a problem before it becomes a problem. When browsing the Citrix Market place, I learned that Scoutbees by Control Up helped monitor business app availability proactively and notifies teams in advance about any issues.

I invited Allen Furmanski from Citrix and Gadi Feldman from Control Up to learn more about the relationship between both companies and how together they are making monitoring great again.

Allen Furmanski is a Senior Alliance Platform Solutions Architect with the Global Alliances Team focusing on joint solutions and go-to-market initiatives with key industry partners. He is a passionate IT professional, Citrix evangelist, creative problem-solver, and public speaker. In his time, Allen enjoys traveling, digital photography, and trying new cuisines.

Gadi Feldman is the creator of Scoutbees.io at Control Up. The SaaS Application monitors the availability of your EUC published resources and notifies you in advance about any issue. We talk about all this and explore how the relationship between Citrix, Control Up, and their customers are evolving in a world of digital experiences.

Technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in our day-to-day lives both at home and at work. As organizations shift operations to support more remote working, employees are finding that once where collaboration was face-to-face, technology has taken its place and their work-life is now predominantly digital. But how is this impacting our digital wellness?

According to Quartz, “digital wellness is defined as tech’s ideal state in which it works in harmony with users’ physical and mental health.” It’s a key ingredient for a positive employee experience. However, contrary to aspiration, Quartz research highlights that employees see digital wellness as something far from reality.

The good news is that Citrix believes that with the right leadership and technology, these consequences can be avoided or overcome. While technology plays a helpful and critical role in our daily work life, it can also distract us and become counterproductive.

As our lives become more technology integrated, employers have a responsibility to ensure the products and systems they deploy to support the digital wellbeing of employees. Join us to discover how Citrix and Flexxible IT are taking on this new responsibility in these ever-changing times.

Nigel Woods is a Technical Evangelist specializing in all aspects of End User Computing, Desktop Virtualisation, Cloud Computing, Desktop Transformation, and Application Delivery. With over 20 years of EUC experience and involved in start-up to sale of the first Citrix based DAAS in Europe and then starting up EMEA for FSLogix to completion with the acquisition by Microsoft, Nigel now heads up Business Development for Apps2Digital for EMEA.

Nitin Sharma is a leader in product and solutions marketing strategy at Citrix. He is responsible for designing and executing global, companywide go-to-market strategies for digital workspace solutions.

With a passion for solving business problems with technology solutions, he has held various solutions sales and marketing roles—targeting audiences at all levels: executive, line of business, and IT.