Citrix acquires Sapho to enhance the guided work capabilities

Citrix Systems has announced the acquisition of Sapho. The acquisition will enhance the guided work capabilities within Citrix Workspace, enabling people to work with even greater speed, intelligence and simplicity.

Tim Minahan, Executive Vice-President – Business Strategy & Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix, says, “In today’s tight labour market, advantage goes to companies that can recruit, develop and engage employees better than the competition. Employee experience will ultimately determine winners and losers, and Citrix is committed to delivering intelligent digital workspaces that give companies an edge.”

Sapho’s micro applications improve employee’s productivity by consolidating access to tools, activities and tasks in a simple and unified work feed.

Citrix delivers intelligent digital workspace solutions that fuel a superior employee’s experience by organizing work so it is more convenient, automating it so that it’s simpler and delivering insights that make it smarter.

Using Citrix Workspace, companies can –

· Give employees flexible access to all the apps and insights they need to work where and how they want and be productive in a single location.

· Leverage innovative technologies such as machine learning alongside simplified workflows to organize work and guide employees through their day, automatically serving up tasks they need to focus on and the intelligence needed to get them done quickly.

· Build employee’s skills and keep them on the cutting edge in their fields.

In combining Citrix’s strengths in application delivery and security with Sapho’s focus on work automation and productivity, Citrix and Sapho can help companies create a superior employee’s experience that redefines the future of work and deliver it today.

Fouad ElNaggar, Co-Founder & CEO, Sapho, says, “Sapho and Citrix share a vision that technology can improve employee’s experience by helping people to be more productive. Our technologies create an intelligent environment that solves productivity challenges that employees and companies are facing by organizing work in a single place, guiding work by bringing micro-apps into the environment and automating tasks to increase time for employees to do value-added work. And together, we can deliver a truly intelligent workspace that redefines the way work gets done.”