Citrix Extends Its Commitment to the Mobile Workstyles Revolution

Published on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 08:11 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-( Business Wire )-

Citrix today announced the expansion of its growing line of mobile workforce solutions with the availability of Citrix^® GoToMyPC^® for Android™ tablet. The new app joins GoToMeeting^® and GoToManage^® as the latest addition to the growing suite of “GoTo” services available to mobile users. In addition, Citrix announced solutions to enable the mobile enterprise with updates to Citrix Receiver™ for Android, as well as the release of the new Citrix XenApp™ 6.5 Mobility Pack and Mobile Application SDK. This full-featured release of the Mobility Pack was announced as a tech preview at Citrix Synergy™ Barcelona in October.

“Enterprises are being flooded with employee requests to support new mobile devices, especially as more companies are adopting a 'Bring Your Own Device' policy in response to employee demand for anywhere anytime access to corporate networks from their personal devices,” said Brett Caine, SVP, Citrix Online Services Division. “The new mobile applications are designed to enable organizations to simply and cost-effectively grant employees the secure mobile productivity and flexibility they need.”

“GoTo” Workstyles

Businesses of all sizes are increasingly seeking new ways to keep their workforce connected and productive without tethering them to their desks and laptops. The “GoTo” application suite strikes the careful balance between connectivity and personal freedom, allowing employees to access everything they need to securely conduct business regardless of whether they are working from home or are held up in the airport. And by creating a more mobile and agile workforce, businesses realize the benefits of increased employee engagement and productivity.

According to a recent study done by Citrix, accelerating growth in the market for mobile applications can be attributed to the consumerization of IT and increased employee usage of smartphones and tablets. In particular, the downstream ramifications of employee interest in accessing their desktops on mobile devices have made mobile device support solutions critical for businesses across all sizes and industries. The Citrix “GoTo” suite of mobile applications brings users all the benefits of access, collaboration and device support no matter what their mobile preference, giving them the freedom to break away from the office and work whenever, and however, they desire.

Enabling the Mobile Enterprise

Citrix is empowering users with increasingly mobile workstyles and enabling the personal cloud, while giving IT the solutions needed to deliver anytime, anywhere access to desktops, applications and data. New additions to the Citrix portfolio include the XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack, which delivers tablet optimized desktops for XenApp 6.5 that automatically re-skin XenApp-shared desktops for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices. Plus, the Mobility Pack provides users with a true native device experience by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling. The XenApp Mobile Application SDK allows software developers to create custom enterprise applications hosted with XenApp that have full access to mobile devices sensors such as GPS and cameras. Advancements in Citrix Receiver across all mobile platforms increase user productivity by making Windows apps more intuitive on mobile devices. In addition, the latest updates in Citrix Receiver for Android include RSA soft token integration and support for Citrix CloudGateway™.

Learn more about our mobile solutions:

Citrix “GoTo” Mobile Services: Fast, easy and secure ways to instantly connect over the Internet, allowing people to access and work on their data, files, network and applications.

• GoToMyPC for Android tablet
• GoToMyPC for iPad and iPhone
• GoToMeeting for Android
• GoToMeeting for iPad and iPhone
• GoToManage for iPad

Citrix Mobile Enterprise: Citrix helps businesses say yes to more than one billion devices with anytime, anywhere access to desktops, applications and data.

• XenApp Mobility Pack
• XenApp Mobile Application SDK

					Expert blog:				Announcing the new Citrix Receiver for Android…and more to come!
									Mobility Pack and Mobile App SDK v1 released

• Citrix Receiver page

Related Links

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/GoToMyPC

http://www.facebook.com/GoToMeeting

http://www.facebook.com/GoToManage

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/gotomypc

http://www.twitter.com/gotomeeting

http://www.twitter.com/gotomanage

Workshifting blog: workshifting.com

Workshifting Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/workshifting

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help people work and play from anywhere on any device. More than 250,000 enterprises rely on Citrix to create better ways for people, IT and business to work through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud solutions deliver over 100 million corporate desktops and touch approximately 75 percent of Internet users each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

The Online Services Division of Citrix provides secure, easy-to-use cloud-based solutions that enable people to work from anywhere with anyone. Whether using GoToMeeting® to hold online meetings, GoToWebinar® to conduct larger web events, GoToTraining® to train customers or employees, GoToMyPC®to access and work on a remote Mac® or PC, GoToAssist® to support customers or GoToManage® for IT support and management, businesses and individuals are increasing productivity, decreasing travel costs and improving sales, training and service on a global basis. For more information, visit www.citrixonline.com.

Citrix, GoToManage, GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Mac, iPad and iPhone are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners

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