Citrix Wins Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Breakthrough Office Systems Software Deployment

Thursday, 13 July 2006 by Michel Roth

Citrix today announced Citrix Access Suite won the �Office Systems Desktop Deployment Award� in the Information Worker Solutions Category at Microsoft�s 2006 Worldwide Partner Conference. Citrix was selected from a highly competitive field of thousands of Microsoft partners for delivering innovative access solutions built on Microsoft technology to healthcare services specialist Beverly Enterprises, among Citrix�s 180,000 enterprise customers. Microsoft presented the award, Citrix�s first in the Information Worker category, at a ceremony on July 13 in Boston, Mass.

By standardizing on the Citrix Access Suite, Beverly Enterprises reduced its IT operating budget by $10 million, from $28 million to $18 million, over five years. Beverly Enterprises originally had a decentralized system in which each of its 400-plus U.S. locations managed its own IT environment. The distributed systems were difficult and costly to manage, and presented a potential risk to data security. Beverly turned to Citrix Systems for help building a centralized solution based on Citrix Presentation Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Read the full press release here.