Citrix acquires productivity startup Sapho for US$200m

Citrix, looking to help its enterprise customers achieve greater worker productivity, on Thursday revealed the acquisition of Sapho, a startup with an intelligent portal for engaging employees. Citrix will pay $200 million for the company that leverages artificial intelligence to unbundle monolithic systems into component pieces, streamline internal workflows, and drive smarter decisions. "Our mission was to use intelligent augmentation to change the productivity equation for all workers," Sapho CEO and co-founder Fouad El Naggar told CRN USA. Sapho developed its Employee Experience Portal to help large companies cull information from their existing systems of record, wherever they were hosted, and generate an integrated feed to any endpoint, from mobile devices, to the Alexa voice assistant, to collaboration products like Microsoft Office 365 and Slack.