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So What is New to XenApp 5? Below are the new adhancements:

Maximizes performance for virtual applications - hosted and local
- 10x¹ faster application startup for local virtual applications
- Ensures best performance of hosted applications for key users and applications with Preferential Load Balancing
- Delivers virtual applications for local use 40x faster with Branch Repeater Support
Lowers support and infrastructure costs
- Simplifies packaging and reduce maintenance costs of virtualized applications by 25% with Linked Profiles
- Reduces the number of servers by eliminating server silos with Preferential Load Balancing
- Reduces support costs by enabling IT to anticipate and prevent performance problems with Active Application Monitoring and Alerting
User experience 2.0 - “better than installed” experience
- Increases user productivity via intuitive and compelling interface
- Enables faster on-boarding of new users

As an end-to-end application delivery system, XenApp provides several industry-leading technologies and innovations that improve performance, increase security and drive down the cost of delivering Windows-based applications. XenApp is the only solution that integrates such a comprehensive set of features, enabling it to become a strategic part of your application delivery infrastructure.

Client-side application virtualization.Centralizes management of Windows-based desktop applications, and isolates and streams those applications to servers and desktops.
Application performance monitoring. Powered by Citrix EdgeSight, these monitoring capabilities enable IT to quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot application issues that impact the user experience.
Single sign-on
Powered by Citrix Password Manager™, single sign-on secures and automates application logons, enforced password policies and provides self-service password reset.
Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2003 64-Bit Edition
Increases user density per server dramatically, reducing costs for hardware acquisition, electricity, cooling, as well as for management and maintenance.
Web Interface for Microsoft Sharepoint
Citrix XenApp Web Interface for Microsoft SharePoint provides SharePoint users a single, consistent user interface for access to all content, applications and business information in a single, familiar environment.

Top Key reasons to upgrade to XenApp 5

Modernized, intuitive and rich user experience - IT organizations need to provide users with fast, secure and easy access to all Windows applications. XenApp 5 introduces a redesigned, intuitive and consistent user experience on the desktop and over the Web. The innovative fresh look for Web Interface – with enhanced security through Advanced Kerberos Authentication and extended support for additional third-party authentication products that support RADIUS protocol – provides users with simpler site navigation for quicker access to Windows applications, desktops and information through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
Broader application compatibility and stronger security for streamed applications - Maintaining applications is a resource-intensive task for IT organizations. XenApp 5 simplifies application delivery and maintenance and minimizes the time to update or patch streamed applications through the addition of Inter-isolation Communication and HTTP/S streaming support. Inter-isolation Communication enables streamed applications to communicate and interoperate as if they were installed locally while ensuring that they execute within their own discreet isolation environment.
Assured service-level performance - Existing XenApp load balancing capabilities monitor server load to efficiently distribute user and application load across the servers in the farm. XenApp 5 enhances these capabilities through a new and intelligent load management system that includes Preferential Load Balancing and CPU management for assuring service-level agreements. Preferential Load Balancing can ensure the best performance for the most critical users and scenarios by enabling administrators to control the priority of a user session based on a combination of application and user level importance.

XenApp is available in three editions:

Platinum Edition
A comprehensive solution for businesses that need a strategic answer to managing and delivering all applications to users on-demand – even when offline. Platinum Edition provides powerful user performance monitoring tools, SSL VPN remote access control, single sign-on, WAN optimization, click-to-call communication, load balancing for key users and more.
Enterprise Edition
A solution for businesses that want to deliver and integrate all Windows applications, automate system resiliency, expand application compatibility and rapidly provision applications across any size server farm.
Advanced Edition
A solution that provides server-side application virtualization and the fundamental functionality for centralizing and delivering Windows-based applications.