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Implementing Citrix Managed Services GG&H now utilizes the complete family of managed online services offered by Citrix for on-demand access, support, and meetings. Citrix® GoToMyPC® Corporate enables staff and administrative directors to securely access their office desktops and servers from home or away from the office. Citrix® GoToAssist provides the IT team with a fast, easy and secure way to deliver remote support services to distant employees. laptop battery

Citrix® GoToMeeting Corporate lets attorneys at the firm easily deliver online seminars to clients across the United States. "We chose GoToMyPC Corporate, GoToAssist and GoToMeeting Corporate because they offered the simplicity, flexibility and security we require." said Schechter. Citrix GoToMyPC Corporate: Simple, Reliable and Secure Remote Access Through GoToMyPC Corporate, employees' access information from anywhere, enabling greater productivity and providing clients with faster, more accurate service. In addition, Schechter reins in IT costs by using GoToMyPC Corporate to access and maintain the firm's servers. "GoToMyPC Corporate is simply awesome because it facilitates working from anywhere." said Schechter. Employees can use GoToMyPC Corporate from any Internet browser or wireless device. Schechter relies on the GoToMyPC Corporate PocketView feature to check server status with his Web-enabled smartphone. "When a computer is not available if I'm in a restaurant, a car, or walking in a parking lot I use GoToMyPC Corporate from my Treo smartphone." he said. "PocketView adds a whole new level of benefit to GoToMyPC Corporate." thinkpad

"Security and reliability are imperative for law firms, and GoToMyPC Corporate offers the highest levels of security. I have complete confidence in the security of GoToMyPC Corporate. It has more security built in to it than the alternatives, and it gives me far better confidence that our desktops cannot be compromised." said Schechter. microsoft

Citrix GoToAssist: Fast Tech Support Services for Distant Staff With the firm expanding beyond its headquarters, Schechter could no longer simply walk across the office to assist employees with technical issues. Now when distant GG&H attorneys and staff require support, Schechter and his team are ready with Citrix GoToAssist. GoToAssist enables the team to remotely view and control a desktop to rapidly resolve problems in minutes rather than hours. "GoToAssist is a lifesaver. Employees are a lot happier because they get a much quicker response." said Schechter. laptop computers

"Helping employees become productive quickly reduces IT support costs and improves client service. With GoToAssist we save two IT employee salaries per year plus thousands of dollars in on-site IT support visits and travel costs." said Schechter. "In addition, the hosted service has proven highly reliable. The most important thing is that it works all the time. GoToAssist is very, very reliable." laptop computer

GoToMeeting Corporate: Powerful, Cost-Effective Online Seminars Through GoToMeeting Corporate, GG&H regularly conducts online seminars for dozens of clients on topics such as employment law. "Part of increasing client satisfaction is to keep them abreast of changes in the law and new developments." said Schechter. "GoToMeeting Corporate makes it so easy for us to present seminars beyond our local region and our clients perceive us as offering better services." desktop computer

The services All You Can Meet licensing model offers predictable, flat-rate pricing. Now the firm easily conducts seminars on timely subjects without concerns about cost. Big League Results and Security Through Software-as-a-Service The Citrix subscription-based services give Schechter's small department the power to deliver services comparable to those of a large IT team while keeping the budget in check. "Citrix managed services lower our overhead and reduce cost of ownership because there's no maintenance." he said. The centralized administration console and robust reporting allows IT to quickly deploy and manage the solutions. notebooks

Security is always Schechter's primary concern. "Our servers contain client information and communications between an attorney and client that must remain confidential." he said. "The Citrix products provide state-of-the-art security features including 128-bit end-to-end Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption to ensure that the session data is completely secure. The reputation of Citrix gives people confidence nobody hesitates about security." lenovo

An attorney himself, Schechter speaks regularly to industry groups about technology issues facing law firms. "I've been around for a fair amount of time and a lot of people call me for IT thoughts. I always mention Citrix products." hard drive

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By Rick Georges May 26, 2006 “...I report that I love it. This software sits in your task bar until you need it. The host calls a meeting, and notifies participants of the web location by phone or email. Participants login with a secure code, and, presto, everyone is sharing the same screen, participants can chat online, Skype users can talk to each other, the host can transfer control of the screen to anyone, and, if you have a vidcam, you can see the participants live. I swear, there is no more excuse to own an automobile. I think I will become a hermit in my den, and just have my wife bring me food every now and then. You know, she will LOVE that. Who wants to have a meeting Seriously, we should be doing Motion practice with this software. Now, we just have to get the Judges to use it.” travelstar

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The corporate way to enjoy company By Paul Taylor June 2, 2004 Expertcity transformed remote file sharing and personal computer remote control when it introduced GoToMyPC a few years ago. The ease of use and power of GoToMyPC delighted users, including me, but irked corporate information technology departments when they discovered employees surreptitiously installing the software on their office machines. gateway

Now Expertcity, which was acquired by Citrix Systems six months ago and has been renamed Citrix Online (www.citrix.com), is hoping to redeem itself in the eyes of corporate IT departments with a new service called GoToMeeting which promises to cut the cost and complexity of holding web-based meetings. laptop parts

In fact, as I discovered, GoToMeeting is an excellent tool not just for big companies but also for small businesses and connecting friends and family. Web conferencing services let groups of people share documents, presentations and other information over the internet. The worldwide market for web conferencing services is expanding rapidly and is expected to be worth about £1.5bn by 2009, according to Frost & Sullivan, a consulting and market research firm. software

Currently the market is dominated by WebEx Meeting Center (www.webex.com) which has a share of about 60 per cent, but there are other services on offer from, among others, Microsoft, Genesys and Raindance. They all support features such as web-based presentations, document sharing and annotation as well as online chat, but they take different approaches to other features, for example meeting management and integration with telephone conferencing. hard drives

GoToMeeting distinguishes itself by embracing a flat-fee subscription model dubbed "All You Can Meet", so groups can use the service as often and as long as they like without incurring additional costs. Citrix Online believes this predictable cost will be attractive, particularly to smaller companies. electronics

Two versions are available: GoToMeeting is aimed at individual professionals and small businesses and supports up to 10 meeting attendees, while GoToMeeting Corporate is designed for organizations requiring central reporting and administration of multiple accounts. The corporate version provides a minimum of five user accounts, with a maximum of 25 attendees at each meeting. canon

Currently Citrix Online is offering a free preview of GoToMeeting and GoToMeeting Corporate which can be downloaded from http://www.gotomeeting.com, so I decided to take a look at the basic GoToMeeting. desktop pc

To download the small software application that powers the service you need to register and set up a user name and password. No configuration is necessary - setup is automatic and you can host your first web conference immediately with just a few mouse clicks or schedule an online conference for later. desktop computers

Users can set up meetings through the GoToMeeting website by sending an e-mail via Microsoft Outlook and through instant messenger applications such as AOL Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger - when you open GoToMeeting you are given a choice of how you want to contact meeting attendees. think pad

Those you invite to attend a meeting do not have to be GoToMeeting registered users themselves, but they do need to download the software the first time - if you invite them via an e-mail, the message contains an automatic link to the download page so all they need to do is click on the link and wait for the download to complete. repair

To test the service, I sent an e-mail invitation to another of my e-mail addresses, called up the e-mail on my portable PC and held a web conference with myself between my desktop and portable machines. data recovery

The service itself lives up to its promise of being easy to use yet powerful. GoToMeeting includes all the basic web conferencing features such as desktop sharing, keyboard and mouse control, chat, audio conferencing, and reporting and tracking tools. cisco

Once up and running, your PC screen appears in front of all attendees. They can use the internal instant messaging screen or a conference phone call - set up automatically - to exchange comments. During a session you can change presenters or give control of your keyboard to another conference participant with a single mouse click, using buttons at the top of the GoToMeeting window that pops up on the right-hand side of your screen. keyboard

With GoToMeeting, you can deliver presentations, perform product demonstrations, collaborate on documents and securely share confidential information online from anywhere at any time in real time. Your meetings can be one-to-one or you can meet with several people at once. monitor

Having used several web conferencing services in the past, I found GoToMeeting to be generally simpler to use. This should make it particularly appealing to beginners in this field. Citrix Online also claims that GoToMeeting is the most secure web conferencing service - offering true end-to-end 128-bit encryption. It is also compatible with existing network infrastructures and firewalls and, because it is a managed service, installation and administration costs are minimal. desktop

But probably the most attractive feature of this new web conferencing package is its flat-fee structure which, if successful, may force other vendors to reconsider their pricing models. The free trial lasts until the end of July. After that, GoToMeeting will cost $49 a month or $468 a year per web conference organizer. Eventually, web conferencing is likely to become just another feature within other PC-based productivity software applications. But if you want to explore the potential of web conferencing today, Citrix Online's GoToMeeting service is an excellent starting point whether you are an individual user, small business or larger company. infosys

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GoToMeeting enables people to work from home and avoid pesky traffic during the Democratic National Convention by Michelle Johnson June 14, 2004 Memo to Mayor Menino: Thanks so much for recommending that folks work at home to avoid all that pesky Democratic National Convention traffic. What a great excuse to pick up some new stuff for the home office. Here are a few contenders: refurbished laptops

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Think you can get out of meetings just because you're not at the office Hah. Not after your coworkers get ahold of Gotomeeting.com. Recently launched by the same outfit that offers gotomypc.com, a service that lets you remotely access and run your computer, gotomeeting.com is an online meeting and collaboration tool. It's free for a limited time. How it works: You create an account online, download the software, and start scheduling online yak fests. Meeting notices can be sent via e-mail or instant messenger (AOL, Yahoo, MSN). wipro

Attendees click a link to be connected. Once hooked up, they see whatever's running on your (the presenter's) desktop - a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. The service has a live chat feature, and it's bundled with free telephone conferencing. lap top

A free trial is available at gotomeeting.com through the end of July. After that you'll pay $49 monthly or $468 yearly. The company recommends a Pentium 300 with 64 MB of RAM, a high-speed Internet connection, a recent version of Windows, and Java-enabled Internet Explorer 5.0 or later or Netscape Navigator 6.0 or later. However, they note that it will run over a stable dial-up connection and with older versions of Windows, but you won't be nearly as happy with the experience. refurbished

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June 16 2006 By Michael Hickins The word "commoditization" strikes fear in the heart of Fortune 500 companies -- and well it should. Geoffrey Moore, a futurist and consultant who practically invented the term "disruptive technology, " said Thursday that most large U.S. companies are losing their edge. memory

The world economy has been dominated by European and American companies, who have set the ground rules for the last hundred years. But Moore, giving a keynote speech at the launch of Citrix' new GoToWebinar on-demand software for organizing Webinars, said that cheap labor in India, China and other developing nations is making it easier for more nimble Asian companies to emerge and out-compete their larger, most established counterparts. intel

"Developed economies no longer have home field advantage, " he said. "We in the United States will have to become radically more productive, or accept erosion in our standard of living." as400

Moore told internetnews.com that small and medium businesses (SMBs) are key to the United States. "The advantage American companies have is they are faster to adopt new practices, they're not afraid to succeed through trial and error, " he said. Moore said that technologies that allow smaller companies to market and distribute their products more cheaply are critical to this movement. "Small business doesn't need help with product innovation -- they're quite good at that already, " Moore said. "But in standard sales and marketing, they're at a disadvantage." averatec

To that end, Moore praised the on-demand software delivery model because it's simple and relatively inexpensive means of reaching new markets and distribution channels. GoToWebinar, offered by Citrix (Quote, Chart) specifically targets small and medium sized businesses. Brian Donahoo, senior vice president of Citrix Online, told internetnews.com that the company already has seven thousand customers in the SMB space. hardware

"There's no technical sophistication required to get up and running, " he said. That's key to the SMB market. Merle Sandler, an analyst with Boston-based consultancy IDC who follows the SMB sector, told internetnews.com that most companies with fewer than 50 employees simply can't afford an IT specialist. Executives in those companies have to use technology on their own. "SMBs want simple and easy, " she said. dual xeon

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June 16 2006 By Lawrence M. Walsh Solution providers, take heart: There's a role for you in the increasingly globalized economy, and it's based on your long history of customer relationships, says IT marketing guru Geoffrey Moore. American IT companies have enjoyed a home-field advantage. If a foreign company wanted to make its mark, it had to plant its flag on U.S. soil and compete with the established market leaders. Now, with ubiquitous broadband connectivity and cheaper Asian labor markets, the center of the IT universe is shifting. That will force American companies to play more away games and learn to do businesses that grow 5 and 10 percent rather than 20 to 30 percent. storage

Moore, author of best-selling marketing books "Crossing the Chasm" and "Dealing with Darwin, " favors American companies that focus on solving customer problems over those that focus purely on technology innovation and product refresh. seagate

"Operational excellence and customer intimacy will pay off more and more, and product innovation will pay off less and less, " said Moore, who is managing director of TCG Advisors. Speaking at the Citrix Online launch of GoToWebinar in New York City Thursday, Moore's comments were in line with recent reports of R&D spending reductions by major IT companies. Microsoft, Bell Labs and Sun Microsystems have each reported marginal reductions in their R&D spending. To wit, a 2005 Booz Allen Hamilton study found no direct relationship between R&D spending and sales/revenue increases. computer sales

Ironically, what will make growth and competition difficult for vendors is where opportunity awaits channel partners: leveraging customer relationships and using technology as the building block to solve problems. In fact, the leveling of the global-playing field may actually benefit domestic resellers who can leverage products with more competitive pricing and margins by overseas suppliers. computer hardware

"This is the VAR's classic customer advantage...customer intimacy, " Moore said. "This history of the VAR channel, it has always delivered on customer intimacy after the sale. The challenge is to develop markets and develop a good book of business in the presales part of the cycle." printers

Poor marketing is a common complaint by vendors about their channel partners. VARBusiness 500 companies oftentimes have the wherewithal to reach out to new customers and develop stronger sales relationships. Small and midsize VARs often don't have the expertise, resources and funding to market effectively. technology

Future survival of channel companies, Moore said, depends on better marketing, then building solutions that create efficiencies for their customers. "VARs have always been creative in crafting more solution sets. Where I want them to be more creative right now is developing their marketing, " he said. "Previously, VARs didn't spend any money on marketing. Now, it's not that expensive, and it's more flexible. The VARs that get it right will grow significantly, and the VARs that don't will go out of business." mainframe

The value of marketing and personal relationships isn't lost on solution providers. Many of the leading channel executives who gathered in New York City earlier this week for the VARBusiness 500 Conference and Awards echoed Moore's position that relationships and systems building is the best path for success. samsung

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