Modern Workplace Consultancy & Management
The Modern Workplace is expected by end users and provides a simple, secure and easy to manage approach to productivity, collaboration and working from anywhere.
To fulfil the requirements of today's modern workplace, businesses need solutions that facilitate communication, collaboration, productivity, security, and employee satisfaction.
Today’s technology solutions are enabling us to rethink and redefine the way we work, and where we chose to work. Microsoft’s and Citrix’s suite of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), collaboration and productivity technologies with integration with Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365 is designed with users in mind to help organisations transform their workplace into a digital workplace of the future.
Applications such as Citrix Workspace, SharePoint, Teams, combined with security, compliance and threat detection, are just some of the standard components of the Modern Workplace, creating the ideal foundation for any business. And when you add in Microsoft Endpoint management solutions, the possibilities are endless.
Consulting, design and delivery of Azure Virtual Desktop includes discovery workshops, design and business cases, proof of concept, activation and migration and ongoing managed services as needed.
Citrix Workspace simplifies the way you manage and secure apps, devices, users, and networks so you can deliver a tailored view of apps and personalised tasks for your end users, creating a more intelligent experience.
Provide help migrating and making the most of the program’s rich capabilities, allowing users access their Windows desktop from any browser on any device, including Apple and Android devices.
Ensuring that no matter where or how users are logging in, your organisation’s data is secure.
Expertise in both legacy and modern systems that allows for integration of a hybrid IT environment.
Why choose SR Cloud Solutions?
SR Cloud’s Modern Workplace solution empowers your employees to connect, collaborate and work seamlessly and securely on any device, anywhere, thereby accommodating today’s hybrid work environments. Workplace services are centralised to help employees access the services they need, when they need them, allowing them to stay focused on their work – not IT.
Our solution enables you to harness both operational and experience data to monitor the workplace and the employee experience. Advanced analytics provide a 360-degree view of the workplace to derive insights and drive continuous improvement.
- The best technology – highest levels of accreditation with the world’s leading vendors such as Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.
- Skills and expertise with a UK-based 24/7 Service Desk
- We are a Joscar accredited business which means we are certified to work with leading defense companies who require the highest standards of cyber security.
- We can assist you design and implement the ideal modern workplace solution using industry leading technologies such as Citrix Cloud (DaaS), Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365
Book a meeting with one of our consultants to learn more about our Modern Workplace Consultancy and Management Services.
Overview of Modern Worplace
The Modern Workplace (MWP) is evolving at a staggering pace with exciting developments and new ways of collaborating, allowing for significant increases in productivity and efficiency. Often, clients do not have a common or clear understanding of what makes up the MWP and the steps required to achieve a successful transformation.
The MWP is typically broken down into five categories:
- Modern Desktop – Linux (IGEL OS), Windows, and MacOS
- Modern EUC (End User Compute) – Citrix Cloud (DaaS), Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows Server 2025
- Modern Productivity – Collaboration, Enterprise Voice, Teams Integration
- Modern Management – Endpoint Management, Edge Operating Systems
- Modern Security – Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Defender, App Proxy, Information Protection, Cloud App Security, Sentinel
Modern Desktop
One of the most significant changes to the desktop is the way the Operating System (OS) refresh cycle has evolved into an evergreen model, ensuring security is at the centre of all updates and continuously improving productivity and efficiency. The way the desktop OS is delivered can be automated, removing overheads and associated costs relating to physical updates, manual imaging, and fault resolution.
Modern EUC
As with Modern Desktop, Modern End User Compute (EUC) includes technologies such as Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) and Citrix Cloud with their DaaS offerings and Citrix Workspace. When coupled with the ability to run an edge OS (which when booting allows connection to a desktop experience hosted in the cloud) removing the need to manage operating systems on desktops, management is greatly simplified and allows for the administration of 1000’s of desktops within a single management experience with as little as one administrator.
Innovation in Modern virtual infrastructure makes it easy to automate, be flexible, and of course, cloud enabled. Modern EUC enhances security with centralised management, monitoring, user access controls, session watermarking to deter data theft, and greater control on OS and application updates.
Modern Productivity
As applications and business process change, so too must the way individuals and teams collaborate to become as effective as possible. Teamwork and collaboration, and productivity transformations are very easy to get wrong and should not be addressed as a point solution to solve a short-term pain. However, when done correctly, the results and an increase in productivity and efficiency can be amazing.
The foundation of modern productivity is people, so doing the correct due diligence defining the Who means the project to transform teamwork and productivity is an easier prospect, as the ‘who’ drives the outcomes you need to achieve.
As a Microsoft Partner, our team have the skills in Microsoft 365 to support your migrations, rollouts and implementations. We can also help your users adopt Microsoft 365 features like SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams.
Modern Management
Management of endpoints (corporate or BYOD) policies, applications, authentication and the security layer is something MWP should address. Modern Management enables businesses to reduce the overhead of management while maintaining security whilst improving efficiency.
Interoperability between systems has never been more robust, with API’s and cloud integrations allowing multiple vendors to collaborate and give more coherent management options and even approaches a single pane of glass management. Managing hundreds or thousands of various endpoints shouldn’t be a chore, and modern management aims to achieve this outcome.
Modern Security
There are so many innovations in security, however, one of the biggest is the change from reactive, signature-based protection to interconnected automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based off the vast amount of interconnected data the cloud provides or, in modern security terms, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
Benefits of Modern Workplace
Automation
Speed up complex processes using automated tools and features
Employee Empowerment
Provision of innovative technologies to equip individuals to perform optimally
Creation of New Opportunities
Embrace the new culture of work by reimagining how processes are executed for new ideas
Security
Accompanied with advanced security systems for the prevention of online threats such as malware and phishing
Improved Productivity
Taking teamwork to the next level with innovative technologies
Enhance Flexible Work
Making remote and hybrid work accessible and seamless on-premises and on the cloud
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Frequently Asked Questions
There is no definitive definition of the modern workplace, however, there are common aspects that are shared between definitions by most businesses and thought leaders. Some of these include digital technologies, remote and hybrid work, data-driven processes and an emphasis on employee experience. People are at the forefront of the modern workplace, with digital technologies being a tool to support and enable people to succeed and create better business outcomes.
There are many benefits to the modern workplace, both for employees and employers.
Productivity: The modern workplace increases employee productivity in many ways. One way is through flexibility in work location, as it ensures that employees can work wherever they are more productive. Many technologies associated with the modern workplace are also designed specifically to increase productivity within the workforce
Job Satisfaction: As the modern workplace is centred around people, many of the changes and technologies are designed to improve the employee experience and make work easier. This, therefore, leads to higher job satisfaction and happier employees that create a healthy company culture.
Agility: The modern workplace makes use of the latest technologies and tools through a long-lasting journey of digital transformation. This process of adopting new technologies, as well as the features of the technologies, increases organisational agility and allows businesses to act and react quickly to changes.
A managed EUC solution such as Azure Virtual Desktop or Citrix Cloud form the foundations for a Modern Workplace strategy. A Managed EUC solution is when you take all the above, and partner with a specialist company to take care of your End User Compute solution. For a business to achieve the highest level of resilience, while empowering, enabling, and supporting its employees as well as it can, there will likely need to be a shift in IT resourcing. New skills might need to be brought in, trained, and then the rollout will need to be managed, stakeholder buy-in will need to be sought.
What makes a Managed EUC solution attractive to many businesses is simple; it reduces the hassle and requirements for all of the above and makes IT management easier. At SR Cloud Solutions, for example, we take the time to understand our customers’ businesses to design effective rollout plans, communications plans, and associated training. EUC has evolved a lot in the past decade, and it will only improve and grow as time goes by. Our Managed EUC customers understand this, and we advise them each time a new opportunity for increased efficiency becomes available.
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