Ever have your business team come to you at 4 p.m. on a Friday and say, “We need to support a critical business project that starts Monday”? For most, that means long weekends prepping or imaging laptops or desktops to support a temporary call center or another unexpected event.

The other challenge is having to break it all down once the project is complete. Wouldn’t it be great to have an option to deploy just the apps and desktops employees need quickly, with a few simple clicks, then spin them down just as easily when the project is over? We like to call this project-based DaaS, and with that in mind, Citrix delivers a turnkey, simplified DaaS solution: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure.

What type of projects are ideal for this kind of on-demand service? Let’s look at six scenarios where project-based DaaS really shines:

Contractors

Let’s start with the most obvious one: contractors. Say you have an IT project and need to hire specialized developers around the globe to work on it. Leveraging Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard enables IT admins to spin up access to just the custom apps developers need to do their job, anywhere in the world, using their own laptop/desktop/tablet. Plus, with Citrix HDX high definition, you can deliver an engineering-level desktop that gives them the performance they need to run graphics-intensive programs or development environments. And just as importantly for IT, retaining control of the environment means that your sensitive IP is protected at all times.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Onboarding new employees from another organization can be challenging. How do we get these new employees access to the business resources they need as quickly and seamlessly as possible? With Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard, you have the power to create custom desktops or apps new employees need from their current device or from a simple endpoint from Day 1. Now both organizations can stay productive during the transition, buying IT time to manage complex systems integrations behind the scenes.

Temporary Workforce

This can be seasonal workers, an unexpected remote work scenario, or just rapid business expansion — you need to support the organization with IT resources at a moment’s notice. Whether its tackling tax season, managing the Christmas holiday retail support, opening a call center, or providing remote access for an event, project-based DaaS gives IT the ability to spin up apps and desktops in a few hours, enabling new seasonal workers to start contributing immediately.

Empowering Remote Workers

Opening a new office location? Expanding your sales force? Changing corporate real estate and facilities priorities? Deliver your custom apps and desktops with Citrix and keep your data secure from anywhere. With Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard, IT can securely deliver Microsoft 365 services, Office apps, resource intensive graphics apps, and optimized task worker Windows desktops, empowering employees to do their best work while saving IT time and money.

Business Continuity

As we have all learned from the last two years, your business needs the ability to quickly scale up or scale down employee access at a moment’s notice — during snow days, a health crisis, or geopolitical events. Keeping workers safe and productive is critical to keeping your business online. Using cloud-based DaaS gives IT the tools to ramp up quickly when needed and without having to add or manage new datacenter or infrastructure projects.

Event Support

As we move closer to a post-pandemic world, organizations are beginning to carefully plan events. Whether it’s a small gathering or a training session, Citrix DaaS can provide access to apps and desktops needed to support an event. Give event coordinators and greeters access to apps and data from a tablet. Support COVID guidance through posted monitors that can be updated quickly. Provide remote apps and desktops for trainings or give sales teams the ability to demo products and solutions without having to leverage your own datacenter resources.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard cloud service gives you a simplified, turnkey DaaS solution that enables IT to deliver a high-performance desktop as a service from the Azure cloud with ease to any user on any device, anywhere. Best of all, it’s available as a monthly or term-based option, meaning you can subscribe to it for as long (or short) as your project lasts. We even created a DaaS calculator to provide you with a simple way to estimate DaaS costs for your project — it may be less than you expect — and the flexibility, security, and scalability of DaaS can make you the hero in changing business conditions.

Want more information? You can request a demo or take an interactive tour on www.citrix.com. Or you can try it today by signing up on the Azure Marketplace.