Citrix Ready Program

What is the Citrix Ready program?
Citrix Ready is a product verification program that showcases and recommends third party products, solutions and services demonstrating compatibility with Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Through the program your company, products, and solutions can gain exposure to over 230,000 Citrix customers and 8,000 Citrix resellers. The Citrix Ready designation enables partners to generate new revenue opportunities, improve customer satisfaction, and also increases mindshare leveraging the Citrix brand.

The Citrix Ready Program is designed for software vendors, hardware vendors, mobility and network service providers, hosting service providers and cloud technology firms who have demonstrated product and solution compatibility with one or more Citrix products.

By verifying the compatibility of product, solution or service you give your customers confidence that your technology will complement their Citrix investment effectively. To help you promote the value you can provide, Citrix Ready provides an innovative collection of sales, technology and marketing programs designed to showcase and recommend your Citrix-compatible products and solutions.

View all the benefits of joining the Citrix Ready program Through the program you will receive extensive benefits to help you better serve your customers, strengthen your skills and build your business. The program offers membership at two levels: Technology (at no cost) and Core (with annual fee). The matrix features side-by-side comparison of membership benefits for both Citrix Ready Technology and Core Members. Technical Benefits Citrix Ready Technology Citrix Ready Core Access to Citrix Developer Network Citrix Ready "Whitelisting" process Technical Support incidents* Discounted 5 Access to Citrix verification test kits and testing programs Eligible for Citrix Technology licensing program   Access to Technical Preview or Early Adopter Software   Product roadmap webinars   * For Technology Licensing Partners and Citrix Ready Partners technical support incidence packages will include the level of troubleshooting support, applicable for end user based support - End User Licensing Agreement (EULA). This will not include development/enhancement related technical assistance from Citrix. Demo Licenses (Technical Benefits) Citrix Ready Technology Citrix Ready Core Citrix XenDesktop (with XenApp)** 100 200 Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 25 50 Citrix XenServer 5 10 Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5 10 Citrix NetScaler VPX 5 10 Citrix Access Gateway Universal 100 200 Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V 5 10 ** Citrix XenApp is no longer offered as separate Demo license. XenApp is now part of XenDesktop product. Sales Benefits Citrix Ready Technology Citrix Ready Core Citrix Ready catalog lead system   Marketing Benefits Citrix Ready Technology Citrix Ready Core My Citrix Partner Portal Access, self-service website Citrix Corporate logo usage Postings to Citrix Ready Communities site Citrix Ready promotional logo usage Citrix Ready product branding Citrix Ready Online Catalog profile page Citrix Ready Online Catalog product page(s) Citrix Ready quarterly program webinars   Joint marketing templates   Access to key play materials   Access to Citrix TV channel partner training and sales videos   Ability to post partner videos to Citrix TV   Press release with Citrix quote   Cost per year No Cost $5000 NOTE: Local taxes will be applicable as per country tax regulations. NOTE: Partner Use License allotments in MyCitrix has been discontinued since March 2011. You can however download Partner Demo License for Demo/Testing purpose.

Follow the 3 step process listed below. Begin by registering to be considered for the Citrix Ready program. Complete your product verification and get approved to be showcased on the Citrix Ready Product Catalog.

	Register Online Fill out a short profile and select 'validating and testing your hardware or software solution with Citrix products' as the type of partner relationship you are interested in establishing with Citrix. Test Your Product Test using Verification Test Kits Download the verification test kits and eval licenses for testing/development purposes. Complete and submit verification testing of your product, solution or service. Test using Online Testing For new users email to get access to the Citrix Ready Virtual Lab. Get Listed in the Product Showcase Catalog On approval of your product verification, complete your product and profile pages on the Citrix Ready Catalog.

For questions related to joining the program, program benefits, program updates and renewals please email CitrixReady@citrix.com as your main point of contact.