Netviewer AG was a German
IT company headquartered in
Karlsruhe
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. 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
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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.
Netviewer Meet was available as
freeware
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for private users and as
software-as-a-service
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike oth ...
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.
[
{{cite web , url=http://www.dialogika.de/~support/Dwnlds/Fraunhofer_SIT_Certificate_tcm23-584.pdf , title=Results of the test of the Netviewer Software by the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation , last=Reinema , first=Rolf , date=April 2004 , website=dialogika.de/support , publisher=Fraunhofer SIT , format=PDF , accessdate=24 April 2014 , quote=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. ]
See also
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GoTo (US company) – currently company with the legacy of these products
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Web conferencing
Web conferencing is used as an umbrella term for various types of online conferencing and collaborative services including webinars (web seminars), webcasts, and web meetings. Sometimes it may be used also in the more narrow sense of the peer-l ...
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Comparison of web conferencing software
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Collaborative software
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them."
Regar ...
References
External links
English homepageGerman homepageTechCrunch on investments into Netviewer
Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Software companies of Germany
Companies established in 2001
Internet Protocol based network software
Remote desktop
Virtual Network Computing
Web conferencing