[THIN] Re: OT Citrix Secure Access Manager
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:43:46 -0000
I trialled it, and demo'd it for an internal feature request.
I had some gripes with the installation / configuration.
I did consider the whole developer / CDA thing - but for the
functionality that the business requested, it was a poor and expensive
match - they weren't won over with it.
Sure I could have developed something within it to more closely match
what they wanted, or just develop my own solution that would exactly
match what they wanted - and in that example, that's just what I did,
saving on hardware and software costs for MSAM.
Basically the business wanted a custom desktop, with big (and I mean
BIG) buttons (not icons) for the business apps, then they wanted the top
half of the screen to be a notice board type area - with the day and
date across the top, then a message area where they could update with
urgent or important messages to the end users - which could contain
hyperlinks to documents or web pages.
I did it in HTA, so I saved on any hardware requirements for a portal /
web served product / application, plus the development was in-house so
only cost time for the software. They have an admin utility that allows
them to populate the message area with HTML of their choice (so they can
use colours, big fonts, emphasis, hyperlinks), and it will update within
a tuneable period (I use somewhere in the region of 30s-45s - so
messages get out to the audience pretty quick, really) to all the
desktops that run it as their interface.
Given what they'd asked for, MSAM at first seemed the obvious answer -
but as the built-in CDAs weren't really what they were looking for, and
given how expensive as a product it was, there was just no way they were
going to go for that.
I think for Citrix app-served type portals, it could be very useful, but
portal software tends toward being pretty darned expensive, so I think
you have to have a definite need before committing to it.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury
> Sent: 10 January 2005 21:17
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT Citrix Secure Access Manager
>
> I tried it out when it was called NFuse Elite. Now it has
> kind of morphed into a more capable product (ability to sync
> Outlook with Exchange). However I still don't see a lot of
> CDAs being developed which would really make it a great
> product. The boxed CDA are pretty basic. I don't want to
> spend $100+ dollars per user to display a world clock along
> with my Citrix applications.
>
> If anyone users it I'd love to hear there thoughts.
>
> Thanks for the info Jeremy!
> Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA
> Network Administrator
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