A Digital Workspace lets your employees be the best they can be. enabling them to work together in a safe environment, on any device, on any application, when and where they want. This ability will make them more efficient and boost your bottom line. Our goal is to provide the best user experience for your digital workspace. It starts adding value when the workspace aligns with the daily work routines of your employees and their usage, giving safe access to data and applications they need and the ability to collaborate with each other.
Research tells us that when considering workspace solutions, 42% of organizations are worried about how to handle security and the control of devices. What if we can help you solve these issues? Our Digital Workspace solution provides vital identity management and built-in security features, enabling IT to meet compliance objectives.
Basefarm Digital Workspace is a portal based solution for cloud hosted desktops and applications. The management layer and desktop workloads run in Basefarm’s datacenter or in the public cloud. Unique because it combines security, uptime, scalability and is best in class.
We believe that introducing a modern workspace, or a new workspace concept, is no longer exclusively an IT project. An IT workspace only adds value if it is compatible with the employees’ activities, facilitates the use of and access to data and applications, and opens opportunities for collaboration. Additionally, IT workspaces must be secure without negatively influencing the performance of employees. Ultimately, the goal is to increase efficiency, boost profits and help enable the success of your company.
The world is changing at a rapid pace. Organizations need to quickly respond to new IT needs such as the ability to work from home, bring your own device, mobility and the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. At the same time, the old concerns such as platform updates, high maintenance costs, security and keeping IT knowledge up to date are still relevant.
More and more organizations are embracing the digital transformation journey. They acknowledge the importance of business mobility and the necessity of digital workspace technologies to help fulfill their need to stay innovative and create competitive value.
Now is the time to improve your employee experience and give them the choice about which tech they want to use and where.
The Workspace Portal is an online workspace that makes it easy to work by focusing on what your employees need to perform their jobs. From a single digital starting point, employees have the required access to all the applications, data and relevant information they need, regardless of the device they are working on.
The rise of Office 365 and business applications moving to ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) models have created the need for a different type of workplace than hosted workplaces, such as Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). In that case a portal-based workspace is the solution.
A workspace portal makes it possible for employees to simply and securely use a digital starting point to access local, SaaS and legacy Windows applications. This will also give the organization the possibility to continue their transition to the cloud in the background.
• The ability to quickly scale up the number of employees, such as temporary workers, seasonal workers or contractors.
• Companies that have their utility servers hosted with Basefarm or a public cloud provider prefer to have their digital workspace situated alongside, for fast access and compliancy.
• Lower Disaster Recovery DR environment costs. Desktop computer resources will only be used in case of disaster. Consequently, the monthly DR environment cost decreases without upfront capital investment.
• Most organizations still have legacy applications that are critical to their business but can no longer be updated. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offers you the freedom to keep maintaining these applications and makes them accessible from any device.
• Users might require occasional access to GPU-enabled desktops to support high-end graphics applications. Resources are paid per hour to keep the cost down.
It all starts with a short, non-committal chat. If you wish to proceed, we will then take a meeting to outline goals, and then follow the phases as shown below. The whole process takes from a few weeks and up to a couple of months, depending on what needs to be done. We will outline cost and time perspectives in the first steps of the process.
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Short conversation to find out what you want to achieve and if we can help to do this. This phone call is without any obligation.
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(2 hours)
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Identifying customer requirements and assumptions that are central to success. Number of users, infrastructure sizing, application requirements, etc.
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(1-2 days)
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Validate and design solution for customer based on the requirements. Pick best fit. All important contributors must be present
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The POC (Proof of concept) solution is made available to end users or customers with predictable quality and security. We can demonstrate and validate so customer can accept.
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We deploy the POC (Proof of concept) to production. Test and expand. We onboard the users.
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You get the benefit of the solution.
“Basefarm Digital Workspace will provide the same benefits of Enterprise VDI without the complexity and upfront cost.
It reduces security risks by eliminating the need for local data on user devices while hosting all your infrastructure and services in our PCI and ISO Compliant datacenters”.
Product Manager Digital Workspace
Marco Broeken has worked as a Digital Workspace specialist since 2013, first by founding his own company and then as product manager in Basefarm for Digital Workspace.
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