Abstract

Southern California Edison ArcGIS Citrix implementation
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: thomas fair

At SCE we have implemented Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop to satisfy two business needs. The first was to extend our development and ArcGIS environment to our offshore team. By using Citrix XenDesktop we enabled our onshore and offshore teams to collaborate and develop seamlessly. The second being our own internal Environmental Health and Safety GIS group which required high performance devices for a large group of employees and contractors. By implementing Citrix XenApp we were able to enable users to harness the power of the Citrix server for their GIS work and to help the large group collaborate. We faced challenges in each deployment integrating Citrix with ArcGIS and our current environment. With ArcGIS Desktop 10 we faced some unique challenges when deploying the applications in Citrix. XenApp and XenDesktop helped us meet our security needs, but both bring their advantages and disadvantages for a GIS environment.