Does anybody have any inside news about what will happen to Podio, will it die a slow death or will Citrix continue to invest in it...
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Office 365, one drive for business and yammer are the end for these citrix legacy products. Podio was plan unusable last I tried working with it.
"Eventually all of the Small business products will get rolled up into other products. The money ShareFile brings in on the small business side is mere pocket change compared to everything else. That includes Right Signature and Podio. Eventually the small business products will be killed off and enterprise relationships will be built. What that means for Podio and some of the one-off pieces no one is sure of but it nor any of the other products with it align with the Citrix vision long term."
While I mostly agree with your statement, RightSignature and Podio will never be killed off. They may be sold off or divested out of the Citrix organisation but the product will carry on somewhere. Perhaps Logmein will buy these products as well.
Eventually all of the Small business products will get rolled up into other products. The money ShareFile brings in on the small business side is mere pocket change compared to everything else. That includes Right Signature and Podio. Eventually the small business products will be killed off and enterprise relationships will be built. What that means for Podio and some of the one-off pieces no one is sure of but it nor any of the other products with it align with the Citrix vision long term.
We are in regular contact with the Podio team and other Authorized Partners, a more concerted effort to improve the Podio platform is underway. We're still developing apps and the demand for system integrations is increasing. We remain positive on Podio's future, it's too good a tool to be retired.
Sharefile Rightsignature and Podio are in the same division within Citrix. They are still separate products though. The only one of the 3 products that Citrix executives really care about is Sharefile. In fact the revenue and profits for Rightsignature and Podio just get rolled up and reported as "Sharefile" both internally and externally.
But what about the strategy that Citrix mentioned last year that they will merge Podio, RightSignature with ShareFile? Is that happening?
Podio is not getting much attention inside of Citrix. This is unfortunate because it's a good product that its customers love. It is kind of an orphan at Citrix these days. The Citrix executives who acquired Podio several years ago are not working at Citrix anymore, and everyone from Podio that came in with the acquisition left the company. Podio is growing at a good rate and it is a profitable business. I wouldn't be surprised if Citrix did a spinoff or sale of Podio. It really doesn't fit with where Citrix is focusing.