New Delhi: Citrix Systems, a leader in application serving and portal software and services, on August 29 announced the launch of Citrix® NFuse® Elite in India, industry's first channel ready, cost effective, powerful access portal server. NFuse Elite provides users with secure, point-and-click access to their personalised set of applications and content - while administrators get the ease and convenience of centralised portal management.

It is claimed that NFuse Elite is suited for a wide range of customer deployments, especially the small and medium-sized businesses, or departments of large enterprises.

With simple, wizard-driven installation and pre-configured roles, themes and templates, NFuse Elite is said to deliver on the promise of an "out-of-the box" access portal.

Can be ordered through Citrix Solutions Network (CSN) members. NFuse Elite, is bundled with Citrix Subscription Advantage, an annual plan that provides customers with delivery of software upgrades, enhancements and maintenance releases, as well as priority access to important Citrix technology information and customer service news. NFuse Eliteships with Content Delivery Agents (CDA's), including CDA's for SharePoint & Web site viewer.

"To date, best-of-breed portal products have imposed implementation complexities and pricing models, said Michael Abel, Regional Product Manager, Citrix Systems Asia Pacific Pty Ltd. "The benefits of NFuse Elite are clear; increased productivity for users and administrators, more efficient use of IT resources, and a rapid return on investment.

By providing a simple, yet powerful framework for integrating data, Web applications and services, and client-server applications, NFuse Elite has the makings to be the next generation desktop - one that provides the access and industry standard security users demand."