Citrix Helps California Community Bank For Trusted Access To Applications.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- Bank of Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. Uses Citrix-Based Access Strategy to Get Branch Offices Up-and-Running Faster Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that one of California's most prominent community banks, Bank of Walnut Creek, is using Citrix access infrastructure to drive growth through more efficient branch office expansion. Bank of Walnut Creek faced the challenge of providing new and existing branch office employees with consistent access to applications without "breaking the bank" with high IT infrastructure investments or administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . With a Citrix-based access strategy supported by Citrix Solution Advisor Vector ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. , Bank of Walnut Creek has benefited from a cost-effective, consistent and repeatable way to get branch offices online almost instantly without the burden of on-site administrative support. As a result, the bank has been able to reduce overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. and improve both employee productivity and customer response time. "Everybody at the bank uses Citrix," said Rick McGhehey, IT administrator for the Bank of Walnut Creek. "It's strategic to our day-to-day operations because we couldn't be up and running without it. We all depend on it." Bank of Walnut Creek is an independent bank with eight locations serving northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . Founded in 1980, the bank has more than $500 million in assets and was ranked by U.S. Banker magazine as one of the five most profitable community banks nationwide. The bank needed a cost-effective way to improve access to information from its branch offices, which ran applications on individual PCs not connected to other branches or the company's headquarters. Moreover, this decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. approach was time-consuming and costly, requiring IT staff to be on site at each branch to solve IT problems. The bank turned to Vector ESP and Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Presentation Server for secure, easy and instant access to information without the expense and time involved in upgrading individual PCs or supporting every branch with its own server system. Bank of Walnut Creek has centralized its access environment using Citrix access infrastructure. Now, since application deployment and management take place on centralized servers instead of at individual desktops, the bank needs only two IT administrators to support 115 users, compared to the five-plus administrators needed without Citrix. Moreover, the bank has been able to replace costly PCs with less-expensive thin-client devices. Application deployment is faster since installations do not need to be performed at every workstation. In addition, by centralizing servers and running all applications out of one location, the bank has improved security and cut costs further by eliminating branch firewalls. Applications running on Citrix range from the Microsoft(R) Office suite to equipment leasing and loan origination software. For example, the bank's Note and Central Services departments use MetaFrame Presentation Server to access proprietary banking software that allows them to process loans and handle customer calls. Executives rely on the secure gateway feature of MetaFrame Presentation Server to further safeguard Internet connectivity with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. encryption, so that they can securely access applications from anywhere via a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . MetaFrame Presentation Server also plays an integral role in the Bank of Walnut Creek's disaster recovery plan, allowing the bank to redirect information if the main server farm goes down so that branches remain operational. The Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite provides an exceptional foundation to build highly scalable, flexible, secure, manageable access solutions that reduce computing costs and increase the utility of any information system. As the foundation of the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server is the world's most widely deployed presentation server for centrally managing heterogeneous applications and delivering their functionality as a service to workers, wherever they may be. MetaFrame Presentation Server is certified to run on Microsoft(R) Windows Server(TM) 2003, Microsoft Windows(R) 2000 Server, and runs on a variety of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) platforms from Sun Microsystems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Hewlett-Packard, and supports virtually any custom or commercially packaged Windows, Web, and UNIX application. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader in access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in secure access for enterprises and individuals. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000 organizations around the world use Citrix every day. Our software gives people secure and well-managed access to business information wherever it lives--on demand. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies, 99% of the Fortune 500, and 92% of the Fortune Global 500. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city's population is described as metropolitan, where diverse culture is commonplace. According to 2006 U.S. , Citrix has offices in 22 countries, and more than 7,000 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. For more information visit http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the company's business involving the company's products, their development and distribution, economic and competitive factors and the company's key strategic relationships and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix(R) and MetaFrame(R) are registered trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft(R), Windows(R) and Windows Server(TM) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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