Small Business Virtual Offices (VO)

Ensure remote employees have full access to business systems applications at the main office even when they are at home, in the field, at another branch or some other off-site location.

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Virtual Offices (VO)? VO Key Benefits Types of Biz Using VO

Types of VO Biz Systems Applications 10 Great Reasons

How to Learn More About Your Educational Champion

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What are Virtual Offices?

When your business needs to operate from virtually anywhere either due to frequent travel, multiple customer locations, on-the-road sales team, home-based employees or other routine off site activities, Virtual Offices provide a means for seamlessly and securely connecting everyone to a single source of critical business applications over the Internet.

Citrix Access Essentials is the affordable small business software infrastructure that will support Virtual Office networking for as few as 5, or as many as 75 employees by facilitating access to the business systems they require any time from any where, to perform their jobs productively.

Virtual Office Key Benefits

Make core business systems applications conveniently available to personnel outside the main office whether at home, in the field, at hotels or airports Significantly reduce unnecessary commutes, travel and phone calls into central facility Cost-effectively expand business operations beyond vicinity of main site

Types of Businesses Using VOs

You may be surprised to learn that there are numerous types of main stream small businesses that benefit from using Citrix Access Essentials to support their employees with on-demand access to critical business systems from multiple locations:

Beauty Salons Retail Stores Catering and Event Managers Florists / Craft Shops Attorney Firms

Medical / Dental Clinics Accounting & Financial Consulting Firms Country Clubs / Hotel / Resorts Manufacturing Firms (Plastics, Metals)

Municipal Government Insurance Agencies Importers / Exporters / Shippers Building Materials / Construction Equipment Suppliers

Real Estate / Mortgage Brokers Property Management & Maintenance Services Pest Control Companies

Types of Business Systems VO Applications

There are numerous types of business needs that can be ideally served by having one central software location and multiple user licenses for multiple location access on demand:

Order Entry Billing Inventory Management

Scheduling Sales Force Automation

Contact Management Accounting

Not only does this approach facilitate ease of access for your team to support productivity, but it also saves time and money by eliminating the need to support multiple software copies on multiple workstations.

10 Great Reasons to Utilize a VO Approach

There are 10 Great Reasons to adopt a Virtual Office approach:

I could go home at a reasonable hour to and still get work done remotely on my business systems over the Internet We wouldn't have to come in on weekends just to make last minute changes to some of our central schedules needed on Monday My branches or sales offices rely heavily on our main facility for computing resources and the latest up-to-date information My small business team would be much more productive if they could access business systems applications in the field, or when traveling I could save my business a lot of money by having a more centralized location for installing, maintaining, troubleshooting and upgrading of business applications I could increase my business growth projections by expanding my businesses capacity to recruit and support talent that could work securely from other geographic locations My business could definitely benefit from having a VO solution that is scalable from 5 to 75 users? I could increase customer satisfaction by helping my team to have access to the data they need when and where the customer needs it My IT Repair Team could begin to feel like the lonely Maytag Repair Man with little or no support requisitions from remote users? I could improve productivity, profitability and sales by having a more centralized approach for managing my business and for enabling remote access by my employees

How to Learn More

To learn more about the cost effectiveness and applicability of a VO solution for your business critical systems, contact Citrix Access Essentials.

With a VO approach, your small business can possess transparent and convenient access to business information systems from virtually anywhere, anytime via the Internet with a Windows-based central server solution. For any business with multiple offices, on-the-road sales team or other off-site communication needs, Citrix Access Essentials offers secure, remote access and simple, centralized management features.

About Your Educational Champion

"Citrix's passion is to simplify information access for everyone. With a Citrix Access Essentials solution, small businesses can save travel, time and money, yet better balance work and personal time. We make it possible for your organization to conveniently and securely get to needed business systems applications over the Internet as if on-site at the main office."

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Note: This information is presented to provide a general overview of small business options and related services. It is not intended to be an exhaustive representation. Data has been compiled by the Knowledge Institute for informational purposes only. Content is provided on an "as is" basis and is not intended to, nor does it, provide advice or create a customer relationship between the Knowledge Institute, BUZGate™ and/or any other organization named herein, and any reader.

page updated: July 08 2008