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Hello All!  My name is Jessica Demers and I am the Citrix Field Sales Manager responsible for all NON-Federal Citrix business in Maryland & Washington, DC. 

Our PRE-SALES Team:

Jose Parada | Lead Territory Manager | 954.229.6849 | jose.parada@citrix.com

• Drives Operational Territory Management | Citrix Florida Headquarter Office
• Conduit for All Citrix Products & Services

Jessica Demers | Field Sales Manager | 410.533.2322 | jessica.demers@citrix.com

• Drives Strategic Territory Management | Local
• Conduit for All Citrix Products & Services

Andrew Kloman | Systems Engineer | 202.579.5231 | andrew.kloman@citrix.com

• Drives Technical Awareness, Helps Architect Solutions, & Runs DC|MD Citrix User Group | Local
• Conduit for ALL PRE-SALES Citrix Products & Services

Lowell Malesky | Application Networking Sales Manager | 703.338.0598 | lowell.malesky@citrix.com

• Drives Strategic Territory Management | Local
• Conduit for All Application Networking Solutions

Sri Subbian | Application Networking Systems Engineer | 301.530.8117 | sri.subbian@citrix.com

• Drives Technical Awareness & Helps Architect Solutions | Local
• Conduit for ALL PRE-SALES Application Networking Solutions

Dan Kuchem | Channel Development Manager | 703.738.8846| daniel.kuchem@citrix.com

• Drives Channel Development & Management | Local
   

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Every organization is cutting costs, looking for ways to save money - 'doing more with less' CIOs  are making it clear to their IT organization - find cost savings, in one meeting the CIO said we need to find projects that will save us $2M+ and we need a few of these now!

In all the meetings I have had, Citrix has been at the top end of possible projects that can really save money now! Citrix champions within the IT organization are being called on to expand and accelerate their projects. For a long time these Citrix champions were seen as a niche group within IT, now they are being called upon to lead larger projects as their work has been at the core of saving organizations real dollars as they centralize and virtualize their application environments.

Often,  projects around Citrix technology have not been specifically about cost savings, it's usually solving other problems, such as application delivery for challenging apps, providing remote and secure access to applications or giving access to new locations/branches or home users. All these scenarios also include an element of cost saving, using Citrix was always the lowest cost option.

What is not so obvious is that these Citrix projects where not just the best/lowest cost option but also they provided real cost savings to the organization, reducing the TCO for the IT team, and providing best in class ROI. Gartner did some studies that showed Citrix XenApp ROI was less than 9 months. (To get a TCO and ROI calculator done for your organization ask your Citrix partner contact to build one for you.)

Delivering all your Windows apps with Citrix XenApp is at the heart of the real cost savings, Check out the compatibility tool,  http://community.citrix.com/citrixready if your app is not listed it you can add it. Saving of over 40% on your desktop management costs can be realized by running all your apps via XenApp.

Whether it's about TCO or ROI, Citrix have always shown excellent results and now that cost savings are the priority, Citrix champions are shinning a cost savings light on their organizations. To find out more about saving real money for your organization and meet some of the real Citrix champions working at our customer sites come to Citrix Synergy in May 2009 http://www.citrixsynergy.com.
Citrix champions speak out! Are you seeing your projects increase in these financially challenging times? Are you shining a cost saving light for your organization?

A return on investment (ROI) analysis is one of the ways how organizations build a financial business case to evaluate an investment. With the existing challenges in today's economy, it seems like ROI discussions will play a bigger role this year and next year in the decision-making process to reduce costs, increase gains, and justify the investment. I'll like to hear your perspective about this and understand how an ROI analysis influences your decisions. 

• Do you feel there will be a bigger need for an ROI analysis moving forward or is it already a "must have"?
• How important is it to justify ROI to receive funding from management in your organization?