{"id":13473,"date":"2015-04-08T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=221412"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:30:29","slug":"citrix-buys-grasshopper-to-strengthen-cloud-based-comms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/citrix-buys-grasshopper-to-strengthen-cloud-based-comms\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrix buys Grasshopper to strengthen cloud-based comms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_159612\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159612\" alt=\"Citrix is buying Grasshopper to bolster its cloud-based comms offerings for SMEs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/10\/Big-fish-small-fish.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citrix is buying Grasshopper to bolster its cloud-based collaboration offerings for SMEs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Citrix has acquired Grasshopper Group, a provider of cloud-based communications services, for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Grasshopper offers a cloud-based corporate communications suite that allows firms to set up corporate phone directories with toll-free numbers, voicemail and all. Users can add departments and employee extensions, and incoming calls can be forwarded to mobile or home phone lines or skype accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s pitch is that it can offer companies \u2013 particularly those that work across multiple offices without any particular HQ \u2013 the ability to stand up a corporate coms telephony system without having to invest in a PBX box or any other expensive legacy kit typically involved with such an endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>Citrix said it Grasshopper will help the company expand its cloud-based collaboration offerings for SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the acquisition we expand the breadth of our communication and collaboration solutions for small businesses, including GoToMeeting, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, ShareFile and OpenVoice,\u201d said Chris Battlers, vice president of Citrix.<\/p>\n<p>Don Schiavone, chief operating officer of Grasshopper said: \u201cOur team shares the same vision and culture as Citrix, making Citrix the perfect home as we accelerate Grasshopper\u2019s growth. This transaction will allow Grasshopper to align itself with a well-respected leader in collaboration solutions for small businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of this year, and comes the same week Citrix&#8217;s virtualisation rival VMware announced the launch of an integrated collaboration suite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citrix has acquired Grasshopper Group, a provider of cloud-based communications services, for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2238,476,2239,2240,2241,2185,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-battlers","category-citrix","category-cloud-based-collaboration","category-don-schiavone","category-grasshopper","category-ma","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}