Today’s increasingly digitized workforce demands more from technology. Employee productivity is directly related to successful interactions with technology and a seamless digital collaboration experience. The Experience of Work research study by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that the most important factors shaping a positive employee experience were ease of access to information and the ability to access it from anywhere.

Secure digital collaboration is more than just editing and saving a document. It’s at the core of hundreds of organizational workflows responsible for coordinating the people, processes, and technologies that drive daily operations. Citrix Content Collaboration helps to provide instant access to the critical business information employees need to do their jobs effectively and add value.

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Keep Innovation Flowing

Citrix Content Collaboration evolved from Citrix ShareFile — a file, sync, and share tool — into a platform that supports all document-centric tasks and workflows required by the modern enterprise. Citrix Content Collaboration’s simple, secure, and seamless access within Citrix Workspace enables anytime, anywhere, and any-device access to applications and files while meeting your organization’s requirements for security, manageability, and compliance. As shown in the image below, employees access information and engage in workflows alongside applications and intelligent actions delivered within Citrix Workspace.

Give Remote Employees a Single Point of Access

Citrix Content Collaboration provides a single point of access to regain control over data and ensure regulatory requirements with a mobile, work-from-anywhere solution. A study by McKinsey Global Institute found that employees spend 20 percent of their time looking for internal information. With content that’s difficult to access and locate, employees are faced with the complexity of collaborating with both internal and external resources. Eliminate the fragmented experience and enable employees to find, access, and collaborate on any device, from anywhere and at any time, without sacrificing speed or quality. Content Collaboration as part of Citrix Workspace provides a single experience for employees to get work done quickly and efficiently by aggregating all relevant content, data, and applications into a unified experience.

Through Citrix Content Collaboration, you can provide your workforce with unified access to all documents across all devices and networks, regardless of where they’re stored. Documents live in their native repository and reside where you choose such as OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Working in conjunction with customer-managed storage zones, connectors let IT create a secure connection while also eliminating the need for data migration or a change to your storage strategy.

Get Feedback, Approvals into a Streamlined, Centralized Workflow

Citrix Content Collaboration enables instant collaboration and increased productivity across distributed teams. Collaboration is built around a single solution for secure file sharing, document collaboration, and activity workflows. This enables employees to collaborate and gather accurate document feedback, approvals, and electronic signatures within a single solution.

Citrix’s feedback and approval tool provides additional value alongside other online editing tools such as Office 365 or Google Docs. Request or provide feedback on documents with document versioning. Employees can effortlessly track revisions, eliminate confusion, and collaborate more efficiently. As shown below, the rich, browser-based file viewing provides editing without requiring a download, including files in Office 365.

  • Instantly request or provide feedback to/from colleagues, business partners, and clients
  • Automated notifications send reminders for review and approval requests, and notifications
  • Version control tracks document changes across multiple data sources and devices
  • No document downloads required

Employees can quickly capture legally-binding electronic signatures fast and never worry about losing a document. An integrated RightSignature tool delivers a secure link to a single signer or group directly from the Content Collaboration file view. The image below shows a completed signature workflow initiated with signer sequencing. Review and signature cannot move onto the next person without prior approval. The document owner can track your signers’ progress from start to finish. The signed documents automatically store back to Citrix Content Collaboration so users stay organized.

Optimize for the unique requirements of virtual environments

Citrix Content Collaboration is optimized to work in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for consistent access to content repositories from a virtual environment. Because the Citrix Files client does not sync files into the virtual desktop, files are fetched from their respective source only when a user opens them, making the virtual desktop integration more efficient. This enables streamlined document management and safe exchange of internal and external facing documents.

Users can share files externally that reside in network shares, SharePoint, OneDrive or other repositories by creating a secure link with access controls. The image below shows how users can initiate workflows and collect feedback while still within the native file viewer in a virtualized desktop.

Gain Visibility into All Document Sharing

Citrix Content Collaboration provides industry-leading security, auditing capabilities, and compliance controls for safe content sharing, allowing organizations to safeguard data, documents, content, users, and devices with one solution. IT can control, authenticate, track, and report on who accesses, views, shares, edits, deletes, downloads, and uploads files based on user location, role, and device criteria.

Lost, stolen, or otherwise potentially compromised mobile devices can be locked or wiped remotely, ensuring that proprietary data is not leaked beyond critical borders. Additional security can be enabled through session watermarking, secure browser, anti-keylogging. Employees can control additional permissions when sharing files. While sharing securely with a single link, attachments come out of email and under more control.

Empower Employees and Keep Data Safe without Limiting Access

Citrix Content Collaboration gives teams a new way to automate workflows and eliminate manual steps — all while collaborating in an environment that keeps sensitive data safe. Think about providing a more cohesive digital collaboration experience when employees initiate project plans, work orders, or status reports. It’s up to you to enhance the user experience. The more you empower users to do their best work, the better positioned you’ll be to drive productivity.