Citrix Helps Humboldt Bank Go From 17 to 27 Branches Via Seamless M&A Information Integration.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004

Designing and Implementing an Access Strategy Helps Humboldt Get

Branch Offices On Line Almost Instantly

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today reported that Humboldt Bank, the principal operating subsidiary of Roseville, California-based Humboldt Bancorp (Nasdaq:HBEK), recently implemented an access strategy to quickly and efficiently integrate information and employees following its January 2004 acquisition of California Independent Bancorp of Yuba City, California and its principal operating subsidiary, Feather River State Bank. Faced with a compressed deadline for data consolidation between the two banks, Humboldt Bank turned to the centralized management and deployment capabilities of Citrix access infrastructure to enable rapid migration of Feather River customers and employees to Humboldt's network.

Humboldt Bank first introduced Citrix(R) MetaFrame(R) Presentation Server as part of their Core Banking System conversion in the first half of 2003. Through that process, the Bank modernized its IT systems and also cut the costs of enabling new branches to access the latest banking and loan applications on existing machines - without sacrificing application performance. In addition, Humboldt Banks is deploying less-expensive and longer-lasting Wyse(TM) thin-client terminals. This same strategy was used as part of the Feather River integration.

With its acquisition of Feather River, Humboldt Bank has grown from 19 to 27 branches. Humboldt's goal of making the acquisition transparent to customers brought IT issues, such as network integration and branch IT support, to the forefront of the list of Humboldt's business challenges. Further heightening the challenge, Humboldt established a schedule for fully consolidating customer data just two months from the date of the acquisition in order to realize savings and efficiencies from the merger as quickly as possible. To meet this aggressive timeline, Humboldt needed its combined teams - no matter where they were located or what different information systems they were using - to be able to easily share information and markedly increase productivity. As the foundation of its access strategy, MetaFrame Presentation Server centrally manages heterogeneous enterprise applications and lets employees access them from anywhere in the system over any device. With Citrix, IT staffs run more efficiently and administrators are able to manage applications more effectively at Humboldt's four divisions.

"It would have taken us twice as long to switch Feather River over and consolidate databases without Citrix access infrastructure supporting our entire enterprise," said Melinda Haynes Swank, Humboldt's Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. "Citrix made it possible to meet our aggressive timeframe without compromising our greatest asset - our customer relationships. With Citrix access infrastructure, branch employees, as soon as they log on, have access to all of our applications in a familiar interface, so that they can get up and running quickly without extensive training or IT support."

"Citrix cut application deployment from months to days," said John Pieratt, Humboldt Bank's Network Administrator and Chief Citrix Architect. "Further, shadowing users has allowed our IT staff to spend less time traveling and more time supporting our users."

Humboldt is using the secure gateway feature of MetaFrame Presentation Server to further safeguard Internet connectivity with SSL encryption. This allows traveling executives to securely access applications from anywhere via a Web browser. Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server also plays an integral role in Humboldt's disaster recovery plan, allowing Humboldt to redirect information if the main server farm goes down so that branches remain operational.

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(R) 2000 Server and Windows Server(TM) 2003, and supports virtually any custom or commercially packaged Windows applications. MetaFrame Presentation Server 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.

Citrix access infrastructure is used by an increasing number of financial services firms, including all 10 of the top 10 U.S. banks and all 10 of the top 10 U.S. insurance companies.

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