Expands Company’s Award-Winning Citrix GoToAssist Capabilities
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Citrix today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Beetil,
a privately-held cloud-based service desk technology provider. Beetil
helps technical support professionals provide exceptional customer
assistance and streamline technology costs through the delivery of
easy-to-use, yet powerful incident tracking, end user self-service,
configuration, change management and release management functionality.
“Beetil’s services are a natural complement to Citrix cloud-based IT support tools. The design is elegant, simple and meets the needs of technicians and end users alike”
The acquisition enables Citrix to expand the capabilities of its market-leading, cloud-based support product line, Citrix GoToAssist,
with the addition of an integrated IT service desk solution. As a
result, Citrix has the ability to offer support professionals an
essential set of cloud-based services from a single platform for remote support, monitoring and service desk management.
“Beetil’s services are a natural
complement to Citrix cloud-based IT support tools. The design is
elegant, simple and meets the needs of technicians and end users alike,”
said Brett Caine, SVP and GM for the Online Services division at
Citrix. “Together with the Beetil team, we will extend our leadership in
delivering innovative cloud-based support. This acquisition reinforces
our commitment to meeting the growing demand of our customers and the
market for a simpler and integrated approach to IT support.”
“We share a common mission with Citrix: to
help IT be strategic and responsive to today’s organizational needs,”
said Dan Lee, founder and CEO, Beetil. “We founded Beetil to deliver a
better cloud-based support and service management experience based on
the best practice ITIL framework. We succeeded by delivering a complete
support desk tool that is easy to use, easy to learn, and easy on the
pocket. And we are thrilled to join the Citrix team because our two
companies share a similar vision and culture.”
The Beetil team will join the Citrix
organization immediately. Dan Lee, formerly chief executive officer of
Beetil, will report to Elizabeth Cholawsky, VP and GM of the IT Support
line of business at Citrix. The terms of the acquisition were not
disclosed. For more information about Beetil, visit www.beetil.com.
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- Video: About Beetil
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About Beetil
Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Beetil
provides a complete support desk management solution in one, integrated
easy-to-use tool. The Beetil product is based on industry-recognized
best practices for IT service management (ITIL) that provide a framework
for managing IT services, enabling users to seamlessly add structure to
their service management process without complexity and cost. The
company’s support desk management tool provides the ability to track and
manage incidents, problems, service and change requests, releases,
knowledge and infrastructure assets, configurations and reporting. For
more information, visit www.beetil.com.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how
businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With
market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization
technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making
complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000
organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each
day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries.
Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
The Online Services division of Citrix
provides secure, easy-to-use cloud-based solutions that enable people to
work from anywhere with anyone. Whether using GoToMeeting to hold online meetings, GoToWebinar to conduct larger web events, GoToTraining to train customers or employees, Podio to create customized workspaces and apps to collaborate with anyone, GoToMyPC to access and work on a remote Mac or PC, GoToAssist to provide IT support and management or ShareFile to securely share files,
documents and data, businesses and individuals are increasing
productivity, decreasing travel costs and improving sales, training and
service on a global basis. For more information, visit www.citrixonline.com.
For Citrix Investors
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products and services by competitors or the entry of new competitors
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failure by Citrix to retain key employees of Beetil; failure to further
develop and successfully market Beetil’s technology and services,
including failure to execute Citrix sales and marketing plans; failure
to achieve or maintain anticipated revenues and operating performance
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including risks associated with successfully introducing the Beetil
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ability to develop and commercialize new products and services while
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and large enterprise accounts; the size, timing and recognition of
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and disputes, including challenges to our intellectual property rights
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the intellectual property rights of third parties; changes in the
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competitors; charges in the event of the impairment of assets acquired
through business combinations and licenses; competition, international
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or exposure to additional tax liabilities; risks of political and
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