Citrix Inks NFuse Licensing Deals with Brio, Epicentric, Plumtree, TopTier and Viador; NFuse Lets MetaFrame Users Deploy Applications Through the Web Quickly and Easily.Business Editors/High Tech Writers iForum 2000 ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000 At Citrix iForum(TM) 2000, 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) ) today announced licensing agreements with Brio Technology Brio Technology was a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1984 by Yorgen Edholm and Katherine Glassey. It made money early on by doing contract work for Metaphor Corporation and performing contract programming. , Inc. (Nasdaq:BRIO (Brio Technology, Palo Alto, CA, www.brio.com) A software company founded in 1989 and acquired by Hyperion Solutions Corporation in 2003 that specialized in enterprise analysis and reporting programs that run on several platforms. ), Epicentric, Inc., Plumtree Software Plumtree Software was founded in 1996 by product managers and engineers from Oracle and Informix. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California. Plumtree was founded on the premise that the technology used to build the World Wide Web could support new kinds of , Inc., TopTier Software, Inc. and Viador Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq:VIAD VIAD VESA Image Area Definition ) to market and demonstrate Citrix(R) NFuse(TM) application portal software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. . The agreements also include joint enterprise marketing and sales opportunities as well as channel development and education. Citrix NFuse is an application portal product that enables Windows(R) and 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) applications running on a Citrix MetaFrame(TM) server to be accessed through a personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. Web portal See portal. by any group or user. Citrix NFuse provides organizations with greater manageability and lower costs through centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. deployment. Portals are personalized, secure Web environments that allow organizations to bring together and share content -- information, services and applications - from a single location with customers, employees, partners, suppliers, etc. "Smart companies are looking at portals as a way to help them align align (  līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. business and technology strategies to compete in the Web world," said Mark Templeton Mark Templeton (b. 1975) is Principal Trombone of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mark studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1994-1998 with Eric Crees, Simon Wills and Peter Gane. During this time he became principal of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. , president of Citrix. "Our relationship with these leading portal and Internet business platform companies helps us reach this emerging market and help new customers benefit from portal technology and application serving." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mr. Templeton, Citrix NFuse enhances the products from Brio, Epicentric, Plumtree, TopTier and Viador by adding applications served by Citrix's MetaFrame software. MetaFrame users can use NFuse to deploy applications through enterprise information portals See corporate portal. quickly and easily. "One major objective of an enterprise portal See corporate portal. is the consolidation of information and applications for a single point of access," Templeton said. "There are a lot of enterprise applications in the world deployed on MetaFrame, and a lot of our customers want to deploy those application through a portal. NFuse lets companies deliver applications through a Web portal without modification. MetaFrame users can begin taking advantage application serving through portals right now." Brio Technology, Inc.
-- "We are excited to continue working with Citrix as we set the
industry pace for providing the power of knowledge and information
to the enterprise," said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO, Brio
Technology. "Brio.Portal is a natural choice for Citrix MetaFrame
users as it is easy to use, fast to deploy and offers quick,
simple access to critical data that can increase organizational
efficiency."
-- Citrix's licensing agreement with Brio Technology, Inc. covers
Brio.Portal, a business intelligence portal. It delivers real-time
business information to end-users, regardless of where that
information is stored or where the user is located.
-- In addition, Brio has advanced to the Premier level of the Citrix
Business Alliance(TM)(CBA) - a coalition of industry-leading
companies working with Citrix to broaden the scope and
effectiveness of server-based enterprise computing solutions.
-- Brio is demonstrating its technology at Citrix iForum 2000 at
booth number 5.
Epicentric, Inc.
-- "Epicentric provides an Internet business platform that enables
its Global 2000 customers to deliver integrated Web services to
their business communities," said Kathleen Hayes, vice president
of business development for Epicentric. "Citrix NFuse works with
Epicentric's Internet platform to provide a powerful entry point
for personalized browser-based access to any type of content,
application or service."
-- The licensing agreement with Epicentric involves Epicentric Portal
Server 3.0, which provides businesses with the ability to deliver
customized Web services to their customers, suppliers,
distributors and employees that reflect the private branding and
look and feel of the company.
-- Epicentric also has joined the CBA as a Premier member.
-- Epicentric is demonstrating its technology at Citrix iForum 2000
at booth number 17.
Plumtree Software, Inc.
-- "The Citrix vision of richly interactive applications, easily
deployed with network-based technology, resonates with many
Plumtree customers," said Plumtree vice president of business
development Steve Pattison. "With Citrix software and the Plumtree
Citrix Gadget Suite, our customers can offer their end-users this
experience in the context of the broad array of information and
services brought together by the Plumtree Corporate Portal."
-- Plumtree Software and Citrix will engage in joint marketing and
demonstration of the Plumtree Corporate Portal and Plumtree's
integration with Citrix NFuse and MetaFrame via a suite of
Plumtree Portal Gadgets(TM). Similar in appearance to the sports
scoreboards or stock portfolios of a consumer portal, Plumtree
Portal Gadgets(TM) are modular portal components that embed key
information and services from enterprise applications and Internet
sites -- such as sales leads, industry news, or e-mail messages.
-- Plumtree Software, previously a Charter CBA member, will now
participate in the CBA program at the Premier level. Citrix will
join the Plumtree Partner Network as a Premier Technology Partner.
-- Plumtree is demonstrating its technology at Citrix iForum 2000 at
booth number 9.
TopTier Software, Inc.
-- "In today's economy it's essential that companies take advantage
of technology which will allow them to unify back-end legacy data
with a variety of applications, Web resources and critical
industry news developments in order to leverage growth
opportunities," said Shai Agassi, CEO and founder of TopTier
Software. "Understanding this need, Citrix turned to TopTier
Software to support their customers in providing a personalized,
role-based portal platform that is designed to allow executives
and staff to more quickly respond to changing business conditions.
We are very pleased to be working with Citrix to take NFuse to the
next level of application integration."
-- The licensing agreement with TopTier covers eBusiness Integration
Portal 3.0, providing complete, personalized control over
enterprise applications and data. The eBusiness Integration Portal
uses TopTier's patented technology that allows users to simply
"Drag and Relate(TM)" information from one application to other
enterprise data sources, such as documents, enterprise
applications, Web sites and other data sources, creating a
platform for the information to be integrated at the end user
level.
-- TopTier has also joined the CBA as a Premier member.
-- TopTier is demonstrating its technology at Citrix iForum 2000 at
booth number 38.
Viador Inc.
-- "Viador's alliance with Citrix will enable us to jointly market
and promote the speed and scalability of the E-Portal Framework
and Citrix software," stated Stan Wang, president and CEO for
Viador Inc. "We are pleased to be a member of the Citrix Business
Alliance. This program enables both companies to provide greater
business advantages to mutual customers through our complementary
technologies."
-- The licensing agreement with Viador covers Viador's E-Portal
Framework(TM), an E-Business platform for the rapid development
and deployment of Business to Business (B2B) and Business to
Employee (B2E) portals. It provides a reliable, secure, and
scalable environment for creating highly customized portal
solutions, for both Internet and Intranets.
-- Viador also has joined the CBA as a Premier member.
About Citrix iForum 2000 Citrix iForum 2000, October 2 -5 in Orlando, is a conference designed for IT innovators innovators people who will try new things. early innovators important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems. , as well as Citrix resellers, systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. , alliances and application service providers to exchange ideas, successes and strategies on application server computing Citrix's term for its centralized, multiuser technology that runs the application in the server and sends only changes in the user interface to the client machine. See MetaFrame and WinFrame. . About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. is a global leader in application server software and services that offer "Digital Independence(TM)" - the ability to run any application on any device over any connection, wireless to Web. Citrix's solutions enable organizations of all types, from major enterprises to emerging application service providers (ASPs), to reach more users, with more applications, in more locations - and achieve this with greater speed and predictability, and lower costs. Its products, including MetaFrame application server software, NFuse application portal software, and Independent Computing Architecture Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform. (ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. (R)), a core application-server technology, have been widely adopted by the corporate mainstream to achieve key business goals. The firm, which markets its solutions through value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. , system integrators See systems integrator. and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensees, is headquartered in 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. Citrix is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (SM) under the symbol CTXS and is part of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For more information, please visit the Citrix Web site at: http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release which are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding current or future financial performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations, product plans and performance, management's assessment of market factors, as well as statements regarding the strategy and plans of the company and its strategic partners, constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, risks associated with the following: the success of the company's MetaFrame product line and the acceptance of the company's ICA protocol; the company's ability to develop and commercialize new products and services; the company's success in expanding into new geographic markets, the company's ability to expand its core business in large enterprise accounts, the company's ability to succeed in the transition to a paper/electronic licensing model; the size, timing and recognition of revenue from significant orders; increased competition, including potential competition from Microsoft and other companies; the results of the company's iBusiness and other new licensing programs; the rate of growth of the ASP market; and the company's ability to continue to develop and market products to meet the requirements of this market; the proportion of revenues derived from distributors, OEMs and other channels; changes in the company's pricing policies or those of its competitors, including Microsoft; the costs of developing, acquiring, or integrating new technologies or enhancements to existing products; the company's reliance upon its strategic relationships with Microsoft and other strategic partners; management of growth; the possibility of undetected software errors; dependence on proprietary technology; risks that the company's branding campaign will not enhance the company's business or results in the manner anticipated; as well as risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the software industry specifically, and risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures 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 in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix(R), NFuse(TM), Citrix iForum(TM), MetaFrame(TM), Citrix Business Alliance(TM), Digital Independence(TM) and ICA(R) are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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