Netviewer AG was a German IT company headquartered in

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. The company's software products provide web conferencing, desktop sharing, and remote maintenance capabilities. According to market research companies Frost & Sullivan and Gartner, Netviewer is among the leading European providers of web conferencing software. As of 2009, the firm employed more than 200 people at nine locations in Europe and served more than 15,000 corporate customers in 55 countries.

History

Netviewer was founded in 2001. In 2002, the firm won a competition for startup companies sponsored by German savings banks and

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Consulting in Germany. In 2006 and 2007, it ranked in the top 10 of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in Germany. Since 2011, Netviewer has been part of Citrix Online, a division of

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Products

The core functionality of Netviewer products was

desktop sharing Desktop sharing is a common name for technologies and products that allow remote access and remote collaboration on a person's computer desktop through a graphical terminal emulator. The most common two scenarios for desktop sharing are: * Remot ...

, establishing a direct connection between two or more computers over the Internet and permitting the exchange of screen contents. The firm's products include the

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-le ...

solution, Netviewer Meets; help desk and IT support software, Netviewer Support; a remote access tool, Netviewer Admin; and the web-based webinar and

webcast A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, web ...

solution, Netviewer Present. Netviewer Meet was available as

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for private users and as

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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, ''

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'' for web conferencing and ''

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'' for remote access, were released. No free versions were available; only trial versions.

Security

Netviewer products utilize 256-bit AES encryption and key-phrase-based authentication, and the software's security has been certified by Fraunhofer in an expert opinion. {{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. The SIT opinion, which is dated April 2004, specifically pertains to Netviewer 2.0 (build 521), and there is currently no expert opinion available for newer versions.

References

External links

Netviewer.co.uk English homepage

Netviewer.de . . German homepage

TechCrunch 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

History

Products

Security

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