Citrix today announced
significant enhancements to Podio,
the popular productivity and work management tool in its mobile
workspace portfolio. The platform’s redesigned look and feel
empowers any user to dramatically reimagine the way they organize their everyday
work. Improvements include a faster user interface, intuitive new
drag-and-drop design and more powerful ways to automate and link tasks
within Podio.
“We’ve been using Podio since the beginning as we’ve grown from three to
over 20 employees and freelancers in the last few years,” said Kevin
Planovsky, founder of award-winning digital marketing agency Vert.
“Our team has found so many ways to customize the platform, drastically
cutting internal emails and unnecessary meetings. Podio makes it simple
to automate and collaborate around the things we do every day;
ultimately, we’re saving time and able to focus on delivering to clients
all the more.”
A New Way to Design Work Processes
More than 500,000 organizations around the globe - from ad agencies to
furniture designers - use Podio to help manage new projects and tasks,
sales, CRM, content development, HR/recruiting, special events, and
more. However, the Podio team recognizes a one-size-fits-all approach
doesn’t work for all businesses.
With its latest release, Podio puts anyone - regardless of technical
expertise - in the driver’s seat, to define and create the way their
team will work together successfully:
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Faster performance: Podio lets users develop the right
workflow, from the ground up. The new, more intuitive drag-and-drop
design lets anyone create and customize apps to organize their
work in just seconds.
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Easier navigation to relevant content: Podio
apps easily unite content, conversations and tasks. Users can now
more quickly navigate to related data from within apps; for example,
link projects and deliverables, or clients and designs, together.
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Added functionality to app templates: Podio is the only
platform of its kind to offer hundreds of free
business app templates that can be easily searched and customized.
To date, Podio users have created more than 1 million Podio apps to
help manage more than 100 million projects, sales leads, marketing
campaigns, and more.
“From the start, we wanted to set Podio apart from other project
management and collaboration tools by making it more user-friendly and,
crucially, more customizable,” said Kasper Hulthin, Citrix Podio
co-founder and Product & Marketing lead. “With the Creator release,
we’re one step closer to our vision of giving every user - whether
they’re a web designer, creative writer or media buyer - complete
control of the way they get work done.”
Focus on the Art, Not the Admin
According to a
survey released from iStock by Getty Images, technology offers an
opportunity to unlock creativity; nearly three quarters (71 percent) of
creatives believe that new tools and technologies have enabled them to
be more creative in the workplace.
Podio
was designed for the user who wants to focus on their craft and simply
servicing clients and customers - making it ideal for creative agencies
and other consultants who manage client projects but aren’t traditional project
managers.
Ryan Brock, CEO of Metonymy
Media, believes Podio is instrumental to helping his team do what
they do best: “As writers, we want to spend our time writing - not on
data entry and updating spreadsheets. Podio allows us to work better by
saving time on the backend tasks so we can really focus on the creative
process. As a result, we’re able to maintain a high level of contact
with our clients - they love our creative processes and our approach to
copywriting.”
See
how Podio can help you work smarter and efficiently.
From more time for writing to less time dealing with “busy work,”
creative teams and small businesses are finding Podio gives them the
freedom they need to work better. Learn more about Metonymy, Vert and
other Podio stories here.
Additional Resources
Podio videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/podio
Podio blog: http://blog.podio.com/
Podio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Podio
Podio on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teampodio
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud
infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix
solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure
virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops,
data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud.
This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT
simpler and people more productive with mobile workstyles. With annual
revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more
than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million people globally.
Learn more at www.citrix.com.
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