Citrix Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development and marketing of technology solutions that enable access to information and applications in the United States. The Company's access products are designed for three main markets: individual consumers and professionals, small businesses, and enterprises. The Company primarily operates in Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Citrix Access Products for Individual Consumers and Professionals
Citrix GoToMyPC: Citrix GoToMyPC is an online, managed service that provides remote access to Windows PC desktops from Internet-connected computer. Citrix GoToMyPC Pro, tailored for the needs of professionals and small office and professional teams, supports approximately 20 PCs, rolls out remote access for multiple users, and features an administration website where managers can add, suspend and delete users and run usage reports.
Citrix GoToMeeting: Citrix GoToMeeting is an online solution for online meetings, training sessions, and collaborative gatherings. GoToMeeting allows a user with a PC and an Internet browser to host, attend, or participate in an online meeting or session.
Citrix Access Products for Small Businesses
The Company offers a range of access solutions tailored for small businesses that typically have limited in-house IT resources or expertise.
Citrix Access Essentials: Citrix Access Essentials is a remote access product with centralized management of information resources to organizations with approximately 75 users.
Citrix Access Gateway with Advanced Action Control: It is a universal SSL/VPN appliance that provides an always-on, single point-of-access to applications and protocols. The Advanced Access Control option extends access to additional devices and users, controlling who accesses company information and what actions are permitted. Advanced Access Control transforms access from an on/off switch to a dimmer that, based on the access scenario, can control the degree of access by determining which actions, such as viewing, editing, saving and printing, can be performed.
Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate: It is an online solution for online meetings, training sessions, and collaborative gatherings. GoToMeeting Corporate allows a user with a PC and an Internet browser to host, attend, or participate in an online meeting. It supports approximately five organizers and 25 to 200 attendees per meeting.
Citrix Access Products for Enterprises
Citrix Access Suite: Citrix Access Suite is an enterprise solution for providing access to enterprise resources.
Citrix Presentation Server: Citrix Presentation Server is a deployed application virtualization solution that runs the business logic of applications on a central server, transmitting only screen pixels, keystrokes, and mouse movements no actual data via an encrypted channel to users’ computers. Presentation Server runs on various platforms, from Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition to Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, and UNIX.
Citrix Access Gateway with Advanced Action Control: It is a universal SSL/VPN appliance that provides a single point-of-access to applications and protocols. The Advanced Access Control option extends access to additional devices and users, controlling who accesses Company information and what actions are permitted. Advanced Access Control transforms access from an on/off switch to a dimmer that, based on the access scenario, can control the degree of access by determining which actions, such as viewing, editing, saving and printing, can be performed.
Citrix Password Manager: It is an enterprise single sign-on solution for accessing password-protected Windows, web, and host-based applications. Users authenticate once with a single password, and Password Manager automatically completes the login process: logs onto password-protected enterprise resources, enforces password policies, monitors password-related events, and automates end-user tasks, including password changes.
Citrix NetScaler Application Switch: It is a web application optimization delivery and traffic management product to improve the access experience for users. The Citrix NetScaler Application Switch is a network system that combines application acceleration, layer 4-7 traffic management, SSL acceleration, and application security into a single integrated solution. In addition to load balancing and content switching, the Application Switch facilitates delivery of web applications.
Citrix NetScaler Application Accelerator: It is an integrated network appliance that delivers application acceleration, SSL acceleration, and network-layer denial of service attack protection.
Citrix GoToAssist: It is an online, remote technical-support solution that enables organizations to provide support over the Internet. GoToAssist enables support staff to view and control the desktop of a user, requires no client software or additional resources, works automatically through various firewalls, over dial-up connections, and integrates into existing infrastructure.
Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate: It is an online solution for online meetings, training sessions, and collaborative gatherings. GoToMeeting Corporate allows a user with a PC and an Internet browser to host, attend, or participate in an online meeting.
Citrix Application Gateway is an appliance that enables organizations to deliver applications to the screens and speakers of IP phones and wireless devices. In addition, the Application Gateway can transform existing web-based applications—such as time clocks, email, sales force automation, school attendance, inventory look-up, and patient records—for wireless devices and the screens of IP phones.
Citrix Voice Office: It is a suite of packaged, converged IP telephony applications that facilitate user interaction, user training, and organizational communications for businesses with Cisco and Nortel IP telephones.
Citrix Services
Citrix Consulting: Citrix Consulting is to help ensure the implementation of Citrix access solutions. Citrix Consulting provides guidance and support to partners and customers for infrastructure implementations.
Citrix Technical Support Services: Citrix Technical Support Services are specifically designed to address various issues facing access infrastructure environments. Citrix offers five support-level options, global coverage and personalized relationship management.
Product Training & Certification: A series of courses are designed to allow customers and channel members to learn new skills and strategies to help plan, implement and administer Citrix products.
Technology Relationships
Symphoniq Corporation has entered into a collaboration agreement with Citrix Systems, Inc. to jointly offer a solution that enables customers to monitor and manage the performance of Web applications.
The Company has entered into technology relationships to develop customer markets for its products for distributed Windows and non-Windows applications.
Microsoft: The Company has license agreements with Microsoft, including licenses relating to Microsoft OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Windows CE and Internet Explorer. The Company also has licensed its multi-user Windows NT extensions to Microsoft for inclusion in Microsoft’s NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server and successor products.
In December 2004, the Company entered into a technology collaboration agreement with Microsoft to further enhance the overall extensibility of Windows Terminal Server. In conjunction with the technology collaboration agreement, the Company and Microsoft entered into a patent cross license and source code licensing agreements to renew the Company’s access to source code for current versions of Microsoft Windows Server that had previously been provided to it pursuant to the agreement between Microsoft and the Company. The technology collaboration agreement also provides the Company access to the source code for the Microsoft Windows Server codenamed ‘Longhorn’. The technology collaboration agreement has a five-year term which expires in December 2009.
Additional Relationships: As of December 31, 2005, the Company had entered into approximately 129 ICA license agreements. Various devices incorporate Citrix ICA, including Windows CE devices, Macintosh clients, Linux Terminals, and other information appliances, such as wireless phones and other handheld devices. ICA licensees include Wyse Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Neoware Systems, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, MaxSpeed Corporation and SAP AG, among others.
In addition, the Citrix accessPARTNER network, including Citrix Alliance Partners, which are a coalition of companies from the IT spectrum who work with the Company to design and market complementary solutions for the Company and the customers of its Citrix Alliance Partners. As of December 31, 2005, the number of Citrix Alliance Partners included approximately 2,150 members, including hardware, software, global and regional consulting alliances. Citrix Premier Plus Alliance Partners include Microsoft, Dell, IBM Corporation, EMC2, Hewlett-Packard Company, Siebel Systems, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, France Telecom and Oracle.
Sales and Marketing
The Company markets and licenses its products through multiple channels such as value-added resellers or VARs, channel distributors, system integrators, or SIs, independent software vendors, or ISVs, original equipment manufacturers, collectively Citrix Solution Advisors, and through its websites. As of December 31, 2005, the Company had relationships with approximately 70 distributors and approximately 4,800 other Citrix Solution Advisors worldwide.
The Company’s SI program includes members such as Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Computer Sciences Corporation, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Siemens, Northrop Grumman and Wipro, among others. The ISV program has representation from targeted industry verticals such as healthcare, financial services and telecommunications. Members in the ISV program include Oracle, Amdocs, Cerner, Kingdee, McKesson, Siemens Medical Health Solutions, Reynolds & Reynolds and Epic.
Customers
The Company offers a portfolio of products and services that target small, medium and large sized organizations in the commercial, government and education sectors. It offers software licenses for Citrix Access Suite software products and for Citrix NetScaler, Access Gateway and Application Gateway appliance products, along with annual subscriptions for software maintenance, technical support and online services.
Competition
The Company's competitors include Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM Corporation, EMC2, Hewlett-Packard Company, Juniper Networks, Inc., F5 Networks, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, WebEx Communications, Inc., Adobe Systems, Inc.
History
Citrix Systems, Inc. was founded in 1989.
