Smart strategies for ensuring employees are equipped to work productively from anywhere & anytime

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – April 30, 2009 – The heightened concern over travel today is just the latest example of how companies of all sizes need to be ready for business disruptions – of any kind – that can affect access to the office and in person meetings. With the availability of simple, easy to use technologies that can be activated at the touch of a button, any business can be prepared to meet the challenge. Disruptions aside, these technologies are essential for enabling the increasingly mobile and location-independent workplace.

According to Chuck Wilsker, president of The Telework Coalition (TelCoa), real-time access and collaboration solutions, along with other enabling technologies including Smart Phones, conference calling, and evolving telephone capabilities such as VoIP, provide the tools for not only surviving a disruption, but also mean high productivity on an ongoing basis. “With the current health emergency being just one of many potential sources of disruption today, companies need to offer the tools for keeping their employees productive anytime, anywhere.”

In a March 2009 report titled US Telecommuting Forecast, 2009 To 2016, Ted Schadler of Forrester Research, says “One of the keys to telecommuting success is collaboration tools: eliminating the strictures of distance and bringing people and resources to employees wherever they are.” In a September 2008 report titled Distributed Teams Need Real-Time Collaboration Tools, Schadler wrote: “When people can exchange views, share their ideas, or comment at the same time on a document or decision, the barriers of distance melt away.”

With Citrix Online’s real time on-demand solutions, companies can quickly deploy easy, secure solutions to enable Web commuting – using web-based technology to enable working from anywhere – without investing in expensive equipment, installation or training:

•GoToMyPC® for providing secure remote access to the desktop from any web browser, anywhere in the world. Employees can use this and be productive without leaving their homes.
•GoToMeeting® for meeting and collaborating online with employees, customers and prospects, reducing the need for travel while saving time.
•GoToWebinar® for hosting easy, inexpensive online events for up to 1000 attendees.
•GoToAssist® and GoToAssist® Express™ for cost-efficient online technical support for businesses and individuals, including a convenient day-pass option with GoToAssist Express for occasional remote support and troubleshooting.
Additionally, the Citrix Online Audio Service Group makes available HiDef Conferencing™ audio conferencing services for unlimited, fixed-price conference calling over the computer and regular phones. Audio only conferences enable participants to work remotely while collaborating in real time.

“Using remote access, collaboration and conferencing services, anyone can run a business from anyplace – with or without a major disruption,” says Brett Caine, general manager of Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (CTXS:NASDAQ). “Businesses are discovering how these services can help them innovate, solve challenges and ultimately increase ROI.”

To help those finding it difficult to work in this environment, with heightened concern for travel, Citrix Online is offering an extended trial for 60-days of free service for GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting.

To activate the extended 60-day free trial for GoToMyPC, go to: www.gotomypc.com/free; for the 60-day trail for GoToMeeting, go to: www.gotomeeting.com/now. Additionally, to use the GoToWebinar Web conferencing services at no charge, visit www.gotowebinar.com. To use the GoToAssist Express or GoToAssist Corporate remote tech support service at no charge, visit www.gotoassist.com. For more information about Citrix Online, visit www.citrixonline.com. To use HiDef Conferencing audio services, visit www.hidefconferencing.com.

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 2008 was $1.6 billion.

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