The world is evolving – and with that your team’s needs and expectations are growing. You need to provide them with a fast, secure and reliable virtual solution to access company documents and line of business software from any device, whenever they require to work.
Through Hosted Applications on your Citadel Hosted Desktop, you enable your team to just work in their environments, wherever that may be. By accessing your LOB software anytime, you are creating a seamless experience for all of your users – all while enhancing your business with the most reliable IT management and security.
Gone with the days of storing company documents and information to a local PC in the office. Hosted applications, accessed via your hosted desktop, mimics your traditional office setup. Who said that working remotely limits your capability to work?
With virtual applications, the world is your oyster. You want to make amends to a document whilst on holiday in another country? You remembered that you need to send out a business-critical email but already left the office? You need to finish working on a presentation for an important meeting the next day?
Anything can be achieved with your hosted applications, only requiring an internet connection and your login details to your hosted desktop.
Rather than local storage, everything is uploaded and shared within the cloud, privately within your company’s private tenancy. Any Windows applications can be hosted within your hosted desktop, along with everyday LOB programs essential to your company. These include Microsoft Office, Sage, CRM software, ERP software and accountancy software.
Alongside integrating popular and well-known software’s into your hosted desktop, we accommodate for businesses with less common and even bespoke software, ensuring that you can just work.
Citadel’s hosted application solutions make it easier than ever before to protect your business against unscheduled downtime. Our servers can be provisioned quickly and offer flexibility on the specifications such as CPU, memory and storage, as well as dedicated or shared Microsoft SQL. Each line of business application can be made available to users and delivered directly to your hosted desktop.
Compared to alternative methods of connecting to your LOB software, hosted applications through your Citadel Hosted Desktop help to manage your IT spending, increase speed and improve communications. You can say goodbye to the days of buffering and dropping out of video calls due to poor IT service connections.
There is no way to say when, where or how business disruptions will occur, but with hosted applications through your desktop, you will have the best possibility to continue to keep your business operational and productive. Working with your virtual applications, you can stay ahead of demand and adapt with ease to unexpected hits, without additional strain on the company IT.
With over a 33% of employees wanting to choose where and how to work, enabling them to work remotely or on-the-go will help to increase employee productivity, as well as help with staff retention. Accessing their hosted applications enables teams to collaborate and share work effectively, communicate with ease and complete their work to the highest standard possible.
“Citadel offered us a platform for our online CRM hosting, in which it has been a testament to the reliability of the platform as we have only needed to long one support request since migrating to Citadel. That support request involved restoring a backup to recover data, which a user of one of our customers had accidentally deleted. This was handled quickly and efficiently, much to the relief of the user in question!”
Technical DirectorCaltech CRM - IT Solutions Provider, Wakefield
“Citadel has allowed us to remove a large, bulky server, creating more storage and allowing us to focus on what is important rather than IT. Through the pandemic, the ease of use from different work environments was vital.”
Head of FinanceDawson Rodgers Ltd - Textile & Baby Furniture Manufacturer and Distributor, Manchester
“Citadel oversee our various IT applications and systems, as well as coordinating between our subcontractors.
The transition of our business services from in-house to cloud-based was expedited on time and on budget.”
Product DirectorExecutive Telecommunications - Telephone Manufacturer, Manchester
“We’d heard about ‘the cloud’ and ‘hosted’ but never considered it to be an option for us. But after learning about the benefits of a secure digital workspace, requiring no internal hardware infrastructure nor the cost and resources to maintain an on-premise server, the choice to move to cloud seemed the right decision.”
Finance DirectorM. Duerden Limited - Packaging Manufacturer, Burnley, Lancashire
“Using Citadel has enabled us to deliver a fully hosted desktop and applications to our tenants. This has enhanced our overall business offering, meaning we can now deliver office space and the technology to complement it.”
DirectorFairfield Asset Management - Facilities Management, Preston
“I would just like to say how pleasant and polite Ben is whenever I have a problem. I am near retirement age and anything technical is quite daunting for me. He is always reassuring and helpful I think compliment should be said when due.”
Finance Co-ordinator Proleisure, Facility Management, Manchester