SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) today announced that GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar have been recognized as winners in two notable software industry awards – the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards and the Appy Awards. GoToMeeting triumphed over join.me, Zoom Video Communications and Epicor as the Best Collaboration Solution in the SIIA CODiE Awards for the second consecutive year, while GoToWebinar was named the Best Webcast Platform over Webcast Essentials. GoToMeeting was also named the Best Productivity App in the 2016 Appy Awards, ahead of PopBoardz and Hound.
“We're honored that GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar have been recognized as the best tools on the market with these prestigious awards,” said Chris Battles, vice president and general manager, Citrix. “We’re committed to giving our customers an intelligent and productive collaboration experience to seamlessly deliver on their most important business outcomes, and we’re happy to see our commitment is resonating with the industry.”
Available on desktop or mobile (iPad, iPhone and Android), GoToMeeting enables companies, departments and individuals to achieve quantifiable business results. With just one click, users can start a meeting and share their screen, video and audio with up to 100 people. Built on our core audio, video and data capabilities, GoToMeeting powers many of the most critical work activities that drive business success. As evidenced by the recent Appy and SIIA CODiE Award wins, GoToMeeting is the ideal tool to build highly effective communications solutions with technology that is built for business, and designed for people.
GoToWebinar is an intuitive full-featured platform that can host real-time events for up to 1,000 attendees. From planning and practicing, to the live presentation and follow up, GoToWebinar’s advanced features give users the necessary tools to drive more collaborative and efficient business interactions. GoToWebinar was recognized by the SIIA CODiE judges for being easily accessible on computers, tablets and smartphones.
About the 2016 Appy Awards
MediaPost’s Appy Awards honor extraordinary applications on all platforms: mobile, social and web in a diverse range of categories. MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and conference company providing a wide array of resources to media, marketing and advertising professionals, producing more than 30 conferences each year, and seven annual award shows, including the Appy Awards, which honor extraordinary apps on all platforms. The Appy Awards judging committee consisted of impartial editors, industry visionaries, and senior-level creative strategy leaders from prominent agencies and brands. The judging process was organized and monitored by MediaPost’s Awards and Editorial Team, and is independent of account or sales biases.
To learn more about the Appy Awards and to view the full list of winners, visit http://www.mediapost.com/appyawards/winners.
About the 2016 SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards recognize software and information companies for achieving excellence. This year, 61 awards were given for products and services deployed specifically for B2B software, information and media companies. An SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor as each award winner was reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose evaluations determined the finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the finalists and their votes were combined with the scores from the industry experts’ to select this year’s CODiE Awards winners.
To learn more about the SIIA CODiE Awards and to view the full list of winners, visit http://www.siia.net/codie/2016-Winners.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Its technology makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. Citrix provides a complete and integrated portfolio of Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, mobility, network delivery and file sharing solutions that enables IT to ensure critical systems are securely available to users via the cloud or on-premise and across any device or platform. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations and over 100 million users globally. Learn more atwww.citrix.com.
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