Netviewer

Netviewer AG
Netviewer AG
Type	Public corporation
Industry	Information Technology
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Karlsruhe, Germany
Key people	Robert Gratzl; Jörg Mayer; Lars Thomas
Products	Netviewer GoToMeeting, Netviewer GoToAssist, Netviewer GoToAssist Corporate
Number of employees	~200+ (April 2009)

Netviewer AG was a German IT company headquartered in Karlsruhe. The company's software products provided web conferencing, desktop sharing, and remote maintenance capabilities.

History

Netviewer was founded in 2001. In 2002, the firm won a competition for startup companies sponsored by German savings banks and McKinsey Consulting's German branch. In 2011, Netviewer was acquired by Citrix Systems under the division Citrix Online.

Products

Netviewer products focused on desktop sharing between two or more computers over the Internet and allowing the exchange of screen contents. Netviewer provided the following products:

Meets, webconferencing
Support; help desk and IT support
Admin; remote access
Present; webcasting.^{[citation needed]}

Netviewer Meet was available as freeware for private users and as software-as-a-service or on-premises licensing models for commercial use. The other products are available as software-as-a service or on-premises licenses exclusively.

After the acquisition of Netviewer, two different products, GoToMeeting for web conferencing and GoToAssist for remote access, were released. No free versions were available; only trial versions.

Security

Netviewer products use 256-bit AES encryption and key-phrase-based authentication. and the software's security has been certified by Fraunhofer certified the software security in April 2004.

References

↑ "Company Profile - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
also: "Citrix to Acquire Netviewer". Citrix. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
↑ "Overview - Products - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
↑ Reinema, Rolf (April 2004). "Results of the test of the Netviewer Software by the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation" (PDF). dialogika.de/support. Fraunhofer SIT. Retrieved 24 April 2014. The results of the detailed analysis carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute SIT are as follows: The current version of Netviewer 2.0 (build 521) satisfies the security demands placed upon it, i.e. all demands for correctness and effectiveness of the implemented measures are fulfilled.

External links

English homepage Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
German homepage Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
TechCrunch on investments into Netviewer

[1] "Company Profile - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
also: "Citrix to Acquire Netviewer". Citrix. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

[2] "Overview - Products - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

[3] Reinema, Rolf (April 2004). "Results of the test of the Netviewer Software by the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation" (PDF). dialogika.de/support. Fraunhofer SIT. Retrieved 24 April 2014. The results of the detailed analysis carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute SIT are as follows: The current version of Netviewer 2.0 (build 521) satisfies the security demands placed upon it, i.e. all demands for correctness and effectiveness of the implemented measures are fulfilled.