More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users wherever they are with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has at it's disposal 6 200 resellers and partner spread over more than 100 countries. The annual revenue of the company reached 1,1 thousand million dollars in 2006.

Application delivery : a vital need for companies

Globalization, mobility growth, increased number of peripherals, instant search results on Internet... When facing such evolutions, it is vital for companies to offer their users a fast, simple and secured access to applications and information they contain so that they can work in an optimal way wherever they are and regardless of the work station or the network connection.

However, those very same companies are facing important access problems, and more specifically the intricacy of their IT environment and the incompatibility between platforms and infrastructures, the applications and the communication protocols.

Today, there is an increasing demand for systems offering to the user an identical standard interface across each peripherals, ensuring fast transfer of data over different networks and allowing the distribution of applications and information in a secure way to local or remote users through public networks like Internet.

Citrix answers to infrastructures issues

Complexity and costs reduction
Not only Citrix solutions are providing a thorough access to applications, but they also reduce the cost and complexity of their deployment. Why ? Because all applications are installed, updated and managed on centralized servers, not on every desktop.

Improvement of performances
Citrix's solutions makes possible accessing applications in a more effective and reliable way, even on connections with a strongly used bandwidth. Indeed, the wholeness of applications is executed on the server ; only the key strokes, the mouse clicks and the screen updates are routed through the network, between the client and the server.

Success of the Application Service Provider market (ASP)
Citrix's infrastructure contributes also to the growth on the ASP market (Application Service Provider). Those services providers are hosting applications in remote datacenters and put them as the disposal of many customers through widened networks and subscription plans. Citrix's software solutions contribute to the accelerated growth in the ASP area by putting applications « for rent » at everyone's reach, by means of a network connection.

Acknowledged superiority
The IT industry leaders acknowledge the strengths and the general interest on the server approach of Citrix's applications. Currently, more than 160 OEM manufacturers, among which are IBM, Sun, Hewlett Packard and Motorola, operate licensed ICA technology in order to integrate it to their hardware and software solutions. There are more than 1700 members of the Citrix Alliance Partner program who work with Citrix to ensure the compatibility of their technologies with application server software of Citrix.

A worldwide resellers network
The resale network of Citrix counts more than 6200 value-added resellers (VAR) and wholesalers around the world. Citrix works also with major consulting companies in order to integrate its products to their industrial solutions.