Skype and Citrix Announce Partnership to Deliver Leading Web and Audio Conferencing Capabilities
March 01 2011 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
In a keynote address at Enterprise Connect 2011 in Orlando,
Skype today announced a strategic partnership with Citrix Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), a global leader in virtual computing and Web
collaboration. The partnership will enable Skype to introduce new,
easy-to-use, Web and audio conferencing capabilities enabled with
GoToMeeting® technology from Citrix. It will help expand Skype’s
business offerings by providing powerful collaboration features for
businesses of all sizes to set up and hold meetings. Based on
Citrix’s successful GoToMeeting product, Skype’s new Web
conferencing and audio features are expected to become available
towards the end of the year.
The Web and audio conferencing features are expected to
supplement the Skype for Business desktop experience, which already
offers Skype users instant messaging, voice and video calling,
group video calling, conferencing, file sharing and more. Adding
the GoToMeeting capability will also allow Skype’s business users
to quickly set up online audio conferencing meetings that users can
join via Skype or through public switched telephone network (PSTN)
phone numbers. It will embed Skype’s SILK audio codec, which means
Skype users can expect audio quality that is practically crystal
clear. In addition, it will enable rich and interactive screen
sharing, whereby meeting hosts can easily walk through, annotate
and highlight whatever they would like to show on their computer
screen, such as a presentation or demonstration.
“GoToMeeting is used by millions of people around the world,
which is testament to our unrelenting focus on ease of use and
delivering a superior customer experience,” said Brett Caine,
senior vice president and general manager of Citrix's Online
Services Division. “Teaming with Skype further extends our high
quality capabilities, enhancing the collaboration experience for
business users and workshifters everywhere.”
GoToMeeting is an intuitive, easy-to-use, real-time Web
conferencing service. With GoToMeeting, organizations can reduce
travel costs and increase productivity by enabling connections for
people to meet with almost anyone, anywhere. The product has been
designed so that users can easily schedule meetings or meet
immediately; no training or other assistance is required.
“We are thrilled to partner with Citrix, which offers one of the
most popular and easy to use Web conferencing solutions on the
market today,” said David Gurlé, vice president and general manager
of Skype Enterprise. “Web and audio conferencing has been among the
top requested features by our business users. This represents a
significant step towards broadening our enterprise offerings, while
adding features that will enable business people to collaborate
even more efficiently and effectively.”
Pricing details for Skype’s new audio and Web conferencing will
be available when the feature becomes available.
Note to Editors: To view the keynote announcement
streamed live from Enterprise Connect 2011, including remarks by
David Gurlé, Skype’s vice president and general manager of
Enterprise, and a guest appearance by Brett Caine, senior vice
president and general manager, Online Services Division, Citrix,
visit tv.enterpriseconnect.com. In addition, visit the Skype-Live
micro-site at www.skype-live.com to access all of Skype’s news
announcements and presentations from Enterprise Connect and see
archived video snippets of the keynote.
About Skype
Skype is a communications platform provider whose purpose is to
break down barriers to communication. With an Internet-connected
device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free
with messaging, voice and video. At low cost, they can also call
landlines or mobiles virtually anywhere in the world. Skype has
recently introduced group video, allowing groups of more than two
people to do things together whenever they're apart. Skype was
founded in 2003 and is based in Luxembourg. Skype can be downloaded
onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free
at www.skype.com.
About Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems (”Citrix”) is a leading provider of virtual
computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand
service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization,
networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio
of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual
datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT
environments. Citrix partners with more than 10,000 companies in
more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
For more information on Citrix, visit www.citrix.com.
Citrix®, GoToAssist®, GoToMeeting®, GoToManage®, GoToMyPC®,
GoToTraining® and GoToWebinar® are trademarks of Citrix Systems,
Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered
in the Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All
other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their
respective owners.
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