It’s been more than a year since we’ve shared how organizations are leveraging mobility to empower employees across industries and have seen the need to evolve enterprise application capabilities to facilitate that shift. If you are watching this trend like me, you would have likely noticed that the world of work continues to evolve with more robust mobile and tablet OS releases, especially with a focus on enterprise applications.

Samsung has been one of the early adopters and innovators in this space with Samsung DeX. For years, users have loved using the Samsung DeX to create a “desktop PC-like” experience when connecting their Galaxy tablets and smartphones to external monitors. They can simply cast their device experience directly to the monitor to perform intensive tasks on complex applications, no matter where they are.

At Citrix, we have come a long way in providing a more modern, full-scale digital workspace experience with Samsung’s flagship Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy Tab S8 series and Galaxy Z Fold. Our close collaboration with Samsung enables users to display a Citrix virtual desktop environment across the tablet screen and an external monitor with full mouse and keyboard compatibility while allowing content movement across screens.

Embracing Hybrid Work

Companies face challenges around adapting to hybrid work, from optimizing their real estate footprint to nurturing corporate culture and productivity for a distributed workforce. Many customer-facing roles, such as senior executives, sales executives, partner managers, and others, need to stay competitive, whether they are in the field talking to clients face-to-face, or meeting with them virtually. No matter where your employees are accessing their resources from, we know you need the assurance that company data is secured.

Together, Citrix and Samsung have enhanced our solution with Citrix Workspace app for Android on Samsung DeX tablets to deliver a secure, high-performance desktop-like experience when connected to an extended monitor.

Seamless access to work on a Samsung DeX tablet with monitor, keyboard, and mouse support.

Delivering Secure Access

Whether your employees’ devices are managed or unmanaged, you can apply and distribute organization-specific settings and authentication requirements for users to access Citrix Workspace app on a mobile device or tablet. Learn how to leverage Citrix’s global app configuration service to implement your organization’s preferred settings to employee devices (for example, if company policy is to mandate smart card usage to access an app within a VDI session). This step-up authentication can be applied for users when they’re accessing through a mobile device.

Enhanced User Experience

Users working outside the office, whether from home, a coffee shop, or on the road, want a desktop-like experience that can support deep, focused, data-intensive work.

The Citrix and Samsung solution delivers new features to support hybrid work flexibility, including:

  1. App Switcher: Switch seamlessly from one app to another and efficiently navigate among open apps within the same session.
  2. Picture in Picture (PiP): Navigate between native apps on the device and work-related apps within a VDI session.
  3. Multi-monitor Support: Multi-task between two screens to enable quicker and more productive work.
Switch between applications easily with App Switcher.

Increased Productivity

Your user can now experience the capabilities of our proprietary Citrix HDX technology and protocols that deliver an optimized high-definition experience in a virtual desktop environment. We’ve added support for webcam redirection, enabling users to take video conferencing calls from their virtual desktop session with their webcams. This helps employees stay connected and productive in their day-to-day work.

Learn More

The collaboration between Samsung and Citrix expands DeX’s capabilities and empowers users. Citrix HDX sessions extend from the Galaxy device’s screen to a desktop monitor for a unified, reliable, and high-performance user experience, with easy access to Citrix-published apps and desktops.

Learn more in our recent blog post, and be on the lookout for even more enhancements that will help support your employees’ productivity and enable the secure, anywhere access workers need today.