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Boost team productivity and accelerate growth with a ‘Digital workspace’

Written by Labdesk Team | Jan 7, 2024 9:01:04 PM

In today’s fast-paced businesses, it feels like there is a new technology, app or system getting implemented at a rapid rate on a daily basis. On many occasions the new technology is integrated with existing or legacy IT to create what is now referred to as ‘hybrid environments’. This constant addition of new tech and layering of systems makes it challenging for teams to keep up with the latest way of working, and often acts more as a distraction and slows their workflow.

A digital workplace provides your teams centralised access to all your necessary applications, company information, and personal documents. It integrates everything into one interface, seamlessly connecting legacy and cloud applications to enhance collaboration and create a unified digital experience.

With a digital workspace, your team can access your apps, tools and data from anywhere, at any time, and on any device.

Why do you need one, and what problem does it solve?

The IT landscape is overwhelming and complex: With an influx of applications, notifications, information scattered around.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, the ability to concentrate and unlock work focus is a superpower for employees.

Simplifying this environment is the key to helping employees harness their full potential.

What can a ‘digital workspace’ do?

Simplified Access…

  • Centralise access to all your apps ie. Microsoft, Citrix, VMware
  • Leverage conditions to give access to the right apps and information
  • Streamline access to all documents, emails, appointment and contacts

Simplified Communication…

  • Updates and maintenance for all apps
  • Company information through announcements in one view
  • Master knowledge within different teams and offices through the Knowledge base
  • Share and attend events on both team and company level

Simplified Workflows…

  • Provide approvals and updates in one overview
  • Smart Global Search
  • Open AI to connect all apps to a single interface

How can your teams benefit from a ‘Digital workspace’?

A workspace can benefit all teams and roles across a business to support and accelerate the work they do – here are some teams and the benefits they will see by leveraging the power of a digital workspace:

HR, People & Culture Teams

  • Enhanced onboarding/offboarding
  • Improved engagement tools
  • Foster collaboration
  • Promote the company culture
  • Create autonomous teams

Internal Comms

  • Unified communication
  • Collaboration features
  • Role base content targeting

IT & Information Management & Teams

  • Seamless integrations
  • Digital transformation
  • Improve DEX (Digital Employee Experience)
  • Aggregate data flow from any application
  • Improve document management
  • Maximise the value of your Microsoft stack

A workspace can remove the pain often felt with Hybrid environments

A workspace can focus on IT delivery and connects legacy systems with the cloud, making hybrid work without IT frustration the new normal. With this new way of working, you increase user productivity, regardless of time or location. With a range of tools such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Office 365, Citrix, Clientless RDP, Fileserver, VMware, and Liquit, a workspace offers flexibility and efficiency without compromising security.

Boost team engagement with technology

A digital workspace boosts engagement and ensures that employees stay connected, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Providing information flows, centrally, both from the organisation to employees and vice versa, and among employees – this all contributes to a high level of engagement. Users can benefit from various functionalities, such as Events, Announcements, a Knowledge Base, Teams, RSS, Birthday, Yammer, Managed Signature, To-Do, SharePoint Integration, an Address Book Centre, People, Contacts – and even YouTube. This wide range of possibilities strengthens the bond between employees and promotes effective information sharing and collaboration.

Bring together your systems and data

A digital workspace brings together all information sources, business data, micro-apps, and integrations into one friendly interface. This simplifies information flows, increases employee efficiency, and provides easy access to relevant information.

What are the main features of a quality digital workspace?

App Management
Set up a workspace in minutes. A workspace also simplifies work for people who manage the workspace. Enabling you to create a role and condition-based workspace that combines all your current and future technologies in one workspace.

Communication
Show information from applications directly in labdesk workspace. All your unread emails, appointments, recently edited documents, feeds, news, statistics from any application, and more at a glance on any device.

Document management
Bring all documents together in one online workspace. This way you can work on and offline from any device. The document app combines and brings structure to Office 365, the file server, OneDrive, SharePoint + Azure

Single Sign-On
Log-in once to your web and hosted applications. Single Sign-On makes it possible to reach both web and Windows applications with just one click, without having to log in separately for each application.

Remote Desktop Apps
Many companies want to transition to the cloud, but still have to deal with legacy (Windows) applications. Bring them together into an adaptive workspace, so you can simply access all your local, web and Windows applications in one portal.

Micro Apps
With labdesk workspace Micro Apps you can simplify and automate any process. All data is organised, so you can quickly find information. For example, your projects, activities or data for day-to-day workloads.

Enhanced Security
labdesk lead with a cyber security focus first. Leverage the power Microsoft + leading cyber security vendors with a multi-layered security approach wrapped around your data + digital eco-system, 24/7.

Sustainability
labdesk workspace + ‘Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability’ empowers organisations to accelerate sustainability progress and business growth by bringing together a set of environmental, social, and governance capabilities across your Microsoft portfolio.

Why choose an adaptive digital workplace?

At labdesk, we believe in simplifying the digital environment to help employees achieve their ultimate work focus.

A personalised digital workplace provides centralised access to all your necessary applications, company information, and personal documents. It can integrate everything into one interface, seamlessly connecting legacy and cloud applications to enhance collaboration and create a unified digital experience.

labdesk workspace - simplify, enhance + secure your IT

labdesk workspace empowers your teams to focus on their primary tasks by offering a personalised digital workspace that adapts to their role and environment.

Want to learn more?

The labdesk team would love to discuss your challenges, objectives and explore how a digital workspace can enhance your teams experience and results.

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