Dine, Snack and Taste

Dine, Snack and Taste with Virsage WorkPlace

Mark Templeton (Citrix President and CEO) used a Dine, Snack and Taste analogy to compare eating habits to mobilization at Citrix Synergy this Spring in San Francisco. With the Thanksgiving weekend approaching, it seems the perfect time to share his insight. To increase productivity, employees need to be able to access information and collaborate with clients/colleagues, anywhere at anytime and on any device. For most employees this means the combination of a desktop/laptop, iPad or tablet and a smartphone. Let’s take a look at how these various devices correlate to the holiday culinary experience.

When sitting down to your Thanksgiving feast this year you will most likely be in a comfortable chair with multiple serving dishes surrounding you, sturdy dining utensils will allow you to consume mass quantities of turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes and pie. The same is true when working from your desktop or laptop. Chances are you will be working with high resolution HD monitors connected to fast processors and large hard drives that allow you to easily use and view a cornucopia of applications on your desktop. The large desktop landscape allows you to intuitively navigate applications and websites while Skyping with family and friends; a true feast of information processing for your dining pleasure.

Now imagine that you are at a holiday party. Trays of stuffed mushrooms, bowls of spinach dip and shrimp cocktail are all within grazing distance. The constant conversations and limited seating keep you on your feet as you make your way through the crowd. The result is you eating from a paper plate that is balanced on your glass of cider. While you are able to enjoy the taste and atmosphere of the food and company –the formalness and duration of experience is much different from the holiday dinner. This snacking experience is played out on the tablet and iPad devices where users get easy and quick access to information but quickly move on to the next task at hand.

After the big dinners and parties have come and gone, the leftovers have the refrigerator packed to the top. As you walk through the kitchen, a quick stop by the icebox lets you quickly satisfy your craving for that last bite of pumpkin pie that is sitting on the shelf. Smartphones enable the taste of sending and receiving important documents, collaborating with associates or checking important metrics from virtually any place you desire.

Virsage WorkPlace is built on Citrix technology and allows users to choose the amount of information they would like to consume and where/how they would like to dine. By enabling employees to choose the platform and location that works for them, organizations will benefit from increased productivity, overall job satisfaction and decreased costs. We at Virsage would like to extend Thanks to all of our business partners and customers and hope that you are all able to spend time with your family and friends.