It’s a Date! Citrix Podio Collaborative Work Platform Now Supports Outlook Exchange and Google Calendar

Real-time syncing, filtering and following of meetings and events create a seamless experience for teams and help more people work the way they want to

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Citrix today announced significant enhancements to the calendaring capabilities in the Citrix Podio collaborative work platform, including new customizable filtering and viewing options and two new platform integrations with Outlook Exchange Calendar and Google Calendar. Combined with Podio’s recently announced integration with Citrix GoToMeeting, these new capabilities deliver a more personal and flexible calendaring experience for users, allowing teams to more effectively work together in and around their meetings, deadlines and projects.

In this new cloud era of business, increasingly mobile, dispersed and social workstyles are evolving: freedom in choice of tools and work practices is critical for these emerging workstyles to succeed. Podio is the world’s most open and connected collaborative work platform for teams, offering integrations with a wide range of leading file sharing and content storage services and cloud-based business solutions, including Citrix Sharefile and Citrix GoToMeeting. Podio’s latest calendar integrations with Outlook Exchange and Google Calendar empower users and teams to effectively connect their external calendars with their mission-critical project management and collaboration apps in Podio.

The new Podio calendar integrations and updates include:

Connect with Outlook Exchange Calendar and Google Calendar: Users can connect their Podio calendar with their primary Outlook Exchange or Google calendar and keep track of all their critical Podio projects, deadlines, meetings and events, including any GoToMeeting details.
Customize and Personalize the Podio Calendar: Customizable viewing options, featuring a new sliding-bar filter that allows users to quickly toggle between personal and team events or display a custom combination of both.
Follow and Sync Workspace-Specific Calendars and Events: Users can “follow” or subscribe to apps and app content within workspaces to include them as deadlines and events on their primary external Outlook Exchange or Google calendars.

The Citrix Podio platform enables people to set up workspaces where they can connect with their teams, collaborate socially, work the way they want to and thus become more effective. To customize their workspaces, people can access and modify free apps from the Podio App Market, or create new apps to support their preferred workflows.

Calendaring and scheduling have long operated in a silo; we’d make meetings and mark events in one place, but set and work towards deadlines in a separate system. With our latest calendar updates and added integrations, our users’ primary external calendars are connected and in sync with day-to-day project work happening in Podio, delivering one consistent global view that’s customizable and delivered in real time on any device. No more double booking.

- Tommy Ahlers

VP of Social Collaboration

Citrix

Podio continues to focus on platform flexibility and customization, to enable more individuals and teams to plug in their favorite apps and services and get work done more efficiently and effectively. These latest integrations with Outlook Exchange and Google Calendar support and bridge the gap between calendaring and ongoing workflows, while the updates to Podio’s native calendar bring added visibility and relevancy to individual tasks and team projects and deadlines.

- Alan Greenberg

Senior Analyst and Partner

Wainhouse Research

Calendaring is an age-old challenge for anyone making a combined effort on a project or task. With Podio’s enhanced calendar, our team can track both our individual deadlines and events, as well as what’s happening across the company, and even better, we can share our Podio calendars with our Outlook calendar, so we’re always up to date and in sync about what’s on the horizon.

- Harrison Lynch

VP Merchandising

LetsTalk

About Citrix

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the company transforming how people, businesses and IT work and 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 250,000 enterprises. Citrix touches 75 percent of Internet users each day and partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.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 ShareFile to 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, visit www.citrixonline.com.

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With Podio’s enhanced calendar, our team can track both our individual deadlines and events, as well as what’s happening across the company, and even better, we can share our Podio calendars with our Outlook calendar, so we’re always up to date and in sync about what’s on the horizon.