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Citrix
and eRoom Form Portal Alliance Integrating
eRoom Digital Workplace with Citrix® XPS™ Portal Software to Enhance
Collaborative Capabilities for XPS Customers such as Eastman Chemical Company FORT
LAUDERDALE, Fla.- August 7, 2001 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), a global
leader in application serving and portal software and services, today announced
an alliance with eRoom Technology, a leading provider of digital workplaces for
extended enterprise collaboration. Citrix is integrating the eRoom® digital
workplace with its Citrix® XPS™ portal software, giving customers the
option of employing eRoom's advanced collaborative capabilities directly through
their XPS homepage. In addition to the product integration, eRoom has joined the
Citrix Business Alliance™ (CBA), Internet Solutions Program to foster joint
sales and marketing opportunities.
"Citrix XPS enhances organizational
efficiency and coordination by giving users immediate access to the specific information,
applications and business tools they depend on to do their jobs," said Barry
Ruditsky, vice president of business development, eRoom. "The eRoom digital
workplace builds upon these attributes, providing a collaborative environment
where users can interact without geographic or organizational bounds, responding
more quickly to new business opportunities and challenges."
Ruditsky
added, "We are very excited about working with Citrix and look forward to
developing a successful alliance that will deliver real value to our mutual customers."
The Delphi Group (www.delphigroup.com)
expects collaboration to increase in significance as organizations search for
ways to optimize their distributed work force and value chain relationships. The
enterprise portal, as the unifying mechanism, will play a central role in this
effort.
Dave Holden, manager, e-Commerce Applications and Services for
Eastman Chemical Company, a customer of both Citrix and eRoom, supports Delphi's
comment. "We are very pleased that Citrix and eRoom are cooperating on a
tight integration of their respective products," said Holden. "XPS will
play a central role in linking our users with the information and processes they
need to get things done, making it an ideal collaborative environment."
Citrix XPS portal software gives users a single, personalized and secure
point of command and control over the applications, information and business processes
relevant to their position and business relationships. eRoom's enterprise-class
collaborative platform supports asynchronous and synchronous, structured and unstructured
collaboration in a tightly integrated unified environment. eRoom functionality
will be accessed through an XPS Content Delivery Agent (CDA), an individual, easy-to-use
Web-based application that snaps directly into the portal users' homepage.
"This alliance with eRoom with their widely deployed collaboration platform
extends the functionality of XPS, helping our customers achieve greater productivity
and stronger ties between the constituents that make up their value chains,"
said Barry Davis, vice president, business development for Citrix. "Our relationship
with eRoom also reflects Citrix's commitment to building vital technology relationships
with industry leaders whose products complement XPS and satisfy the functional
requirements of our customers." About
eRoom
eRoom
Technology is a leading provider of Internet-based software and services for collaboration
among an organization's extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers,
and other partners. The company's eRoom® product provides a digital workplace
for the extended enterprise, allowing organizations to quickly assemble a project
team wherever people are located and manage the collaborative activities that
support their complex and rapidly-changing business projects and processes. Customers
use eRoom digital workplaces to help get products to market faster, drive down
production costs, enhance customer relationships, and improve the work products
that drive their businesses. The eRoom solution is used by more than 500 companies
such as A.T. Kearney, Aventis Pharmaceutical, BIC, Bausch & Lomb, Cisco, Compaq,
Deloitte Consulting, EDS, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Ketchum, KPMG,
Pfizer, Siemens, Solectron, and Sony. More information about eRoom Technology
and its product offerings can be found at www.eroom.com
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application
serving and portal software and services that provide personalized access to any
application or information source - whether Windows®, UNIX® or Web-based
- through any device, over any connection. Companies worldwide use Citrix technologies
to integrate applications, content and business processes into a pervasive digital
environment - a virtual workplace - offering seamless connectivity and a consistent
user experience across the Internet, intranets, extranets, WANs, LANs and wireless
networks. Citrix solutions drive cost efficiency, productivity and enhanced e-business
opportunities by enabling companies to leverage existing IT resources and extend
personalized information access to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.
Citrix products offer rapid, cost-effective deployment and include MetaFrame®
application serving software, NFuse™ application portal software, XPS™
portal software, application management products, and Citrix Independent Computing
Architecture (ICA®), a core application serving technology. The company markets
its application serving products through a well-established reseller channel and
sells its portal software products directly to customers to provide the level
of customization they need. Citrix is traded on the Nasdaq Stock MarketSM under
the symbol CTXS, and is part of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index. Citrix is headquartered
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web
site at http://www.citrix.com. Media
Inquiries Contact David
Schreiber, Citrix Systems (410) 423-4071 or
Gillian
Farquhar, Greenough Communications Group, Inc.
(617) 275-6514
or
Pam
Sullivan, eRoom Technology, Inc. (617) 497-6300
For Citrix
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