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Citrix Receives Prestigious CIMA Technology Award for Significant Impact on Colorado IT Systems
Wednesday 06. February 2008 - State of Colorado Recognizes Citrixs Cornerstone Contribution to Application Delivery and Disaster Recovery Planning
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the company was presented with an award for “exceptional work and a quality customer relationship” from the Colorado Information Management Association (CIMA). The award honors Citrixs work with the state of Colorados Department of Personnel and Administration (DPA) on its application delivery and disaster recovery planning project, which has created an estimated annual IT cost savings of more than 30 percent per year.
Michael Locatis, Chief Information Officer for the State of Colorado, presented the award to Citrix during a ceremony at CIMAs Fall 2007 Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. The annual CIMA Technology Awards evaluate nominations based on significant contributions to the overall success of the states IT agency, substantial changes and cost savings to the agency associated with business processes, marked increases in customer benefits and the solutions ability to be reused by other agencies.
“Weve worked hard to help the state of Colorado create an application delivery solution that improves the government workers access to information and applications, which ultimately provides better service to the citizen,” said Dave Podwojski, director of state and local government and education for Citrix Systems. “Citrix is proud to be recognized for the work weve done with Colorado, and we look forward to more opportunities to help this great state expand its application delivery horizons.”
DPA is the cabinet department that serves as the business center for Colorados $13 billion state government. The DPA has the largest workforce in the state – 60,000 employees – who manage state facilities and real estate, as well as provide business services ranging from telecommunications and computing to administrative hearings, financial accounting, records archiving, purchasing, tax collection, insurance and risk management, printing and motor vehicle services. The DPA works to ensure that state departments and agencies have all the tools they need to better serve the citizens of Colorado.
In March 2006, DPA began testing and implementing a Citrix application delivery solution as a way for employees to transition to a thin-client environment while accessing mission-critical applications much faster than the older technology infrastructure allowed. In addition to helping DPA realize an IT cost savings of more than 30 percent each year, the resulting solution developed by Citrix and DPA ultimately extended the average desktop refresh cycle by six years, streamlined desktop management, enabled central management of security, reduced the volume of help-desk support required, and facilitated a disaster recovery capability that allows DPA employees to continue to handle calls and access critical information from a remote location.
DPA continues to expand its Citrix implementation and expects to have their Citrix solution fully deployed to 80 percent of all DPA employees by June 2008.