Citrix Online Chosen as Finalist for American Business Awards
Recognized for Best New Product and Most Innovative Company
Goleta, CA – June 2, 2008 – Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), is in the running to receive two Stevie American Business Awards in the categories of Best New Product for Citrix® GoToAssist® remote support and Most Innovative Company for its on-demand applications for remote access, support and collaboration. Known as “the business world’s own Oscars,” the Awards selected only a fraction of the 2,600 entries as finalists.
“American Business Award entries grew more than 30 percent this year, so being named a finalist is more of an accomplishment than ever before,” said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of The Stevie Awards. “It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national recognition. We congratulate all of the finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition.”
The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April through early May 2008.
“We are pleased to be recognized by the The Stevie Awards for our innovation in bringing to market simple remote access and collaboration solutions that enable our customers to innovate and be more competitive,” stated Brett Caine, president of Citrix Online. “It is especially gratifying to receive praise for GoToAssist. With our new Citrix GoToAssist Express service, which is currently in beta, Citrix Online offers Web-based remote-support services that are purpose built for very small businesses to the enterprise.”
Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Details about The American Business Awards and the list of finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.
For further information on Citrix Online and GoToAssist, visit: www.citrixonline.com and www.gotoassist.com.
About Citrix GoToAssist
Citrix GoToAssist, the No.1 remote desktop support solution, is an online service that enables support staff to view, control, and troubleshoot user desktops, increasing user satisfaction and productivity and reducing support costs. The service requires no client software or additional resources, works automatically and securely through virtually every firewall, performs well even over dial-up connections, and integrates into existing infrastructure.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.