Citrix has unveiled its easy-to-use, team-based collaboration platform, Citrix Podio. This follows the companys recent acquisition of Podio, a freemium cloud service that supports people and teams getting work done the way they want to in a social setting, through a unique apps concept that adds structure and activity streams to any type of work and collaboration.
The company also announced significant integrations with popular work and collaboration services, including Citrix GoToMeeting, Citrix ShareFile, Evernote, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and SugarSync, further empowering distributed and mobile teams to work and collaborate more effectively and socially in the new Cloud Era. By adding these services to the previously announced integrations with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs, Podio now supports all major cloud file and document sharing services. With these additions, Podio users can connect seamlessly to their preferred services and work the way they want.
This is one more way were enabling people to simply and effectively get real work done. Through the social power of the Podio collaboration platform, were the first to provide this type of integrated cloud-based support for team-based collaboration, said Bernardo de Albergaria, VP and GM of Collaboration, Citrix. Were delivering easy and seamless access to todays leading productivity services and weve done this with simplicity, affordability and customer experience in mind, continuing our support for the evolution of how work gets done.
In this new Cloud Era, increasingly mobile, dispersed and social workstyles are evolving: freedom in choice of tools and ways of working is critical for todays emerging and diverse workers. Podio brings the power of mobile and social to team collaboration, making it easy for people to work the way they want in dynamic team workspaces, across any mix of employees, contractors and partners. Citrix customers and Podio users can easily connect and create workspaces for their teams; access free apps from the Podio app market; extend or modify existing apps; create new ones to support their preferred workflows; collaborate and work the way they want to; and be more effective as a result. It is a natural extension of the Citrix collaboration business, providing the modern workforce an easy, secure and social way to come together to work as teams. This enables great seamless experiences, driving better ways of working through easy, simple and effective collaboration for everyone.
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