Every year we put out a call for nominations for the Citrix Innovation Award for Customers, and every year, we are amazed at the ways our customers are putting Citrix technology to work and delivering innovation that is helping to define the future of work. The nominations included exceptional stories of visionary organizations all over the world driving bold and innovative solutions for the IT industry’s most complex challenges, fueling business growth, forging strong connections between our customers and the people who rely on them and helping organizations find better ways to work.
We all faced significant challenges in 2020, and it was a year none of us are likely to forget. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we were not able to recognize our customer finalists at Citrix Synergy. Last year, perhaps more than ever before, our customers found ways to drive innovation, deliver business value for their own customers, and power a better way to work with Citrix solutions. That’s why we’ve decided to recognize all three of our 2020 finalists as winners of our Citrix Innovation Award for Customers.
Take a few minutes to read our winners’ stories and watch their videos. See how they’re using Citrix technologies to shape and create a simple, secure — and better — way to work.
- Neste (Finland) — Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. They are the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. They aim at helping customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with their renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. Their hybrid model, with Citrix Cloud, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, is giving all of Neste’s workers — employees, sub-contractors, and affiliates — a common, secure, high-performance workspace and is contributing to Neste’s strategic goal to be faster and bolder, together.
- Ohio Department of Transportation (United States) — With the mission to provide safe and easy movement of people and goods from place to place, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) supports the state highway system and promotes transportation initiatives statewide. As a more than $3 billion per year enterprise, ODOT invests the bulk of its resources in system preservation through maintenance, construction, and snow and ice operations. Using Citrix, ODOT IT staff quickly got more than 1,000 employees working remotely in three days.
- Össur (Iceland) — Pioneers of advanced technology, Össur’s mission is to improve people’s mobility. A global leader in non-invasive orthopedics, Össur continuously pushes the boundaries to create the best products and services in the fields of Prosthetics and Bracing and Supports. Over the last 18 months, Össur has embarked on an aggressive technology roadmap, collapsing all datacenters to consume cloud services, with Citrix being a foundational technology of this journey allowing every one of their 4,000 users to a limitless, safe and mobile user experience, which entirely reflects the company’s mission.
