Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), wereldwijd marktleider op het gebied van access infrastructure solutions, heeft Reflectent Software, Inc. overgenomen. Reflectent levert de meest gebruikte oplossingen voor het monitoren van de performance van client-server-, web- en desktop-applicaties op het niveau van de eindgebruiker. De overname past in de reeks van aankopen die Citrix de afgelopen twee jaar gedaan heeft in het kader van zijn groeistrategie in de markt voor Access Infrastructure-oplossingen.
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Citrix Acquires Reflectent Software, Enhances and Extends Its Access Platform
Reflectent Brings New Application Performance Monitoring Capabilities to Citrix Customers to Deliver the “Best Access Experience” for Any Application Type FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — May 8, 2006 — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced it has acquired privately held Reflectent Software, Inc., provider of the industry's most widely deployed solutions to monitor the performance of client-server, web and desktop applications from an end-user perspective. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Executing on an Aggressive Growth Strategy
With this latest acquisition, following several successful acquisitions over the past two years, Citrix continues to execute on its strategy to move into adjacent, high-growth segments of the Access Infrastructure market.
As a leader in application performance monitoring, Reflectent™ is part of a larger market for Access Management solutions, complementing traditional Systems Management products. Systems Management products focus broadly on the management of systems, devices (components) and processes across the enterprise. Access Management products focus specifically on the “first mile of computing”—the “mile” between the user’s computer screen and the door of the data center—with solutions that observe, measure and control the access experience from an end-user’s perspective.
Strengthening the Citrix Access Platform
The Citrix Access Platform is an end-to-end architecture for managing secure access to applications and information on demand. The Citrix Access Platform enables IT organizations to deliver secure, easy, instant, well-managed access for any user, from any location, to any application, with the fastest performance, highest security, and lowest cost. The Citrix Access Platform bridges the key elements in the first mile of computing that connect users seamlessly and consistently with the information they need to do their jobs.
Reflectent’s Access Management technologies will help manage, monitor, measure and control all dimensions of application access to make more informed business decisions on application consolidation and retirement, capacity planning, service level agreements, and departmental charge-backs across Citrix’s application delivery solutions. This business-level information will provide an immediate benefit for customers delivering web applications through Citrix® NetScaler®, as well as those delivering client-server applications via Citrix Presentation Server™.
System Management tools provide an enterprise view of their servers and networks. Reflectent complements systems management tools by providing a similar view of application performance and availability as experienced by the end-user. As a result, users get real-time visibility needed to manage the delivery, performance, and availability of the mission-critical business applications their end-users require every day. By measuring performance and availability from the user’s perspective, Reflectent allows IT to focus less on managing systems and devices, and more on achieving and communicating business-level goals.
“This is another exciting acquisition for Citrix,” said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer for Citrix. “With Reflectent’s products and expertise, we’re taking the next step in enabling IT services to be provided on a utility model—much like telco services, where the dial-tone is always there, operator assistance is easy, and bills are accurate.”
Acquiring the End-user Application Performance Leader
Reflectent, founded in 2000 and based in the Boston area with 31 employees, pioneered the use of end-user metrics to consistently measure actual application performance and facilitate rapid problem isolation and resolution. Its award-winning EdgeSight® product line is the most widely deployed end-user application performance management solution in the Fortune 1000. Reflectent has experienced five consecutive quarters of growth with revenues doubling year-over-year in the first quarter of 2006.
More than 150,000 end-users rely on Reflectent solutions at companies such as Fiducia, Georgia-Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Partners HealthCare, PETCO, SAP, Synovus Financial, Verizon Wireless and World Savings.
Reflectent will continue to operate in the Boston area as the Management Systems Group of Citrix, led by Lou Shipley, general manager and vice president, reporting to Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Shipley served as president and chief executive officer for Reflectent since 2003.
“This is a great move for Citrix and a great fit for Reflectent,” said Shipley. “Existing Citrix customers now have a comprehensive solution that measures the performance of web applications delivered by NetScaler as well as client-server applications delivered by Presentation Server. The session-level visibility for troubleshooting and capacity planning across Presentation Server infrastructures will make EdgeSight extremely popular with Citrix customers, while our Endpoint product will add additional insight to application performance and rich, diagnostic data for their application support teams. Our EdgeSight product line provides a performance management solution for all applications regardless of delivery method or user location and is a natural complement to Citrix’s Access Infrastructure.
“Citrix’s large, global partner network will give Reflectent a way to reach those customers quickly, efficiently and with a value proposition that resonates and fits right in with their Citrix-based access strategy.”
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 180,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2005 were $909 million. Learn more at
www.citrix.com.
For Citrix Investors
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the integration of Reflectent and its products with Citrix and its products and customer acceptance of the integrated products 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 products, their development, integration and distribution, product demand and pipeline, customer acceptance of new products, economic and competitive factors, Citrix’s key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in Citrix’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.
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Citrix®, NetScaler® and Citrix Presentation Server™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Reflectent™ and EdgeSight® are trademarks and registered trademarks of Reflectent Software. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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