Citrix Press Release:

Dec 112012

Businesses Look to Citrix to Increase Training Flexibility Citrix GoToTraining has enabled organisations including Virgin Holidays, EDI and Devon County Council to reduce costs whilst maintaining training programme delivery quality

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Users across a range of industries have commended GoToTraining, the flexible remote training tool from Citrix, for its ability to deliver cost-effective remote training with no loss of programme delivery quality. Among them is the specialist training qualifications and assessment services provider, Education Development International (EDI), which implemented GoToTraining as a cost-effective alternative to its highly successful face-to-face workshops and training programmes. GoToTraining has provided the flexibility to enable our consultants to come together for systems training, often at short notice. It has also given us a highly intuitive and easy-to-use remote training tool that has maintained a high-quality end-user learning experience in ensuring maximum customer acceptance. I could not see us running effectively now without GoToTraining. - Alan Kirk Customer Support Manager Education Development International (EDI) The remote training tool was also chosen by Virgin Holidays’ Learning and Development Team, which selected GoToTraining to help it stay ahead of the fast-paced consumer market. “The Citrix tool has lots of in-depth, interactive features, yet remains incredibly simple to use, both for us and our trainees,” says Virgin Holidays learning and development executive, Chris Britton. “As a result, we have revolutionised the way we train our people across all parts of the business. From Crawley to Orlando and Glasgow to Dubai, the GoToTraining software has allowed us to provide real learning experiences for our global team.” Flexibility and speed In the public sector too, GoToTraining has proved highly effective. As Devon County Council senior workforce development advisor, Barry Wilding Webb, confirms: “All my performance and development team use it, as do others across the county, for many different purposes. We have found the tool’s flexibility makes it ideal for both ‘bite-size’ and longer training sessions, as well as course introductions, follow-ups and updating IT skills and we regularly get positive attendee feedback from these sessions. “For example, we recently used GoToTraining to reach almost 200 library staff to inform them about a new restructuring programme and how it would affect them, with an interactive Q&A session to resolve any concerns or issues.” For Andrew Millard, senior director marketing EMEA for the Online Services Division at Citrix, these customers reflect the rapid success of GoToTraining as an integrated part of Citrix’s portfolio of collaboration tools. “GoToTraining enables individuals and organisations to provide fully interactive training sessions to employees and customers, wherever they are located,” he confirms. “This allows the business to cut travel time and costs and reach more trainees, by moving training programmes online or integrating virtual training with existing face-to-face sessions. This ability both to reduce costs and increase training capacity is critical as companies look to improve their competitiveness at a time when budgets are under intense pressure.” 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 atwww.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 ShareFileto 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, visitwww.citrixonline.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release 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 the impact of the global economy and uncertainty in the IT spending environment, revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products and services, their development and distribution, product demand and pipeline, economic and competitive factors, the Company's key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company'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. The development, release, timing and combination of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion and are subject to change without notice or consultation. 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