Netviewer

Netviewer AG

Company 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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

See also

• GoTo (US company) – currently company with the legacy of these products
• Web conferencing
• Comparison of web conferencing software
• Collaborative software

References

1. "Company Profile - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
   also: "Citrix to Acquire Netviewer". Citrix. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
2. "Overview - Products - Netviewer". Netviewer.com. 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.

External links

• English homepage
• German homepage
• TechCrunch on investments into Netviewer