Recently, Citrix announced general availability of new intelligent capabilities within Citrix Workspace that will help to remove the noise caused by complex technology systems and free employees to take control and do the work that matters most.

One of the unique things about Citrix Workspace is that it provides a platform for microapps that streamline functionality from key applications, enabling employees to complete tasks quickly, to get the insights and information they need, and to be more productive. In fact, Citrix Workspace now offers out-of-the-box integrations with many of the world’s most commonly used enterprise applications like Google G Suite, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP to name a few.

But, these integrations and pre-configured microapps are just the tip of the iceberg. We want to see many thousands of microapps proliferate across our customers’ environments. That’s how, together, we’ll truly enable the future of work.

The Citrix Developer Program for Workspace

What’s so cool for developers is how creative and impactful you can be with integrations and microapps. And that’s where the Citrix Developer Program for Workspace fits in.

Together, the Citrix Workspace platform and the Citrix Developer Program can help you orchestrate and automate complicated business processes and workflows, deliver awesome desktop and mobile user experiences, and get you up to speed building quickly.

Get Started Quickly and Easily

Our new developer program helps you each step of the way. First, there’s a comprehensive (and growing) set of tools and documentation that you can access right now in our new Citrix Workspace Developer portal. You’ll find documentation on how to build a custom HTTP application integration and create microapps, how to export and import microapps and integrations, as well as examples of integrations with Jira, Asana, and Slack.

There are also video guides that show you, for example, how to configure microapp integrations, detail the microapp architecture, and show you what the microapp builder looks like and how to use it. And we have videos from Citrix Converge — our first-ever developer conference — with examples from the hackathon that show exactly what actual developers built with our new tools while at the event.

The program includes a free personal developer test instance with an accelerated onboarding process. Your developer test instance is available for 30 days, and we’ve made it easy to renew it, as long as it remains active. With the test instance you don’t have to incur the time and expense of setting up your own development environment. It’s a non-production environment provisioned in Citrix Cloud and managed by Citrix. It’s “sandboxed,” so you don’t have to worry about microapp development impacting production. Just go to the developer portal and sign up. It’s that simple to get started building and testing today.

Access the Tools You Need to Shrink the Learning Curve

Our low-code microapp builder is an easy-to-use drag and drop tool that will simplify your development effort. You’ll be able to bring fragmented apps and data together across any network with enterprise-grade analytics and security controls.

We’ll continue to build our tools and documentation repository with API docs, sample code, utilities, and scripts. To help with your development efforts, join our new Integration and Microapp Development forum, in Citrix Discussions, to get answers from our experts and share knowledge with other, like-minded developers.

Joining our program and community extends to Citrix Converge, our in-person developer conference, as well as additional and online events. And mark your calendars because our next set of Converge 2020 events will be in Prague, March 25-26, and Bangalore, April 1-2. We’ll return to Santa Clara later in October. We’ve got you covered so you can expand your skills through events, hackathons, hands-on workshops, labs, and local meet-ups.

Finally, all developers have the opportunity to build a deeper relationship with Citrix through the Citrix Ready Partner Program. You can have your microapps tested and validated for security and performance and earn the Citrix Ready designation, which tells customers and partners they can have confidence in your integration work and the microapps that you’ve built. And we’ll showcase them in our new Citrix Workspace Microapp Catalog in the Citrix Ready Marketplace. Finally, we’ll help drive awareness and promote your microapps to over 400,000 Citrix customers and 1,500 partners.

Go Far, Be Amazed with the Citrix Workspace Platform

The Citrix Workspace platform and our new developer program and tools will enable you to do some pretty amazing things. Things like orchestrating and automating complicated business processes and delivering really awesome desktop and mobile user experiences. It puts you in the driver’s seat and enables you to:

  • Integrate multiple back-end systems to modernize legacy applications so you can provide modern, consumer-like experiences for cross-system workflows
  • Automate repetitive tasks by creating virtual assistants to simplify and accelerate complex business processes by leveraging the power of natural language and AI and ML, without having to learn how to code it
  • Build workflows that cross multiple apps, so you can quickly create microapps that pull content, actions, and insights from connected applications, while providing end-users with a single, unified experience — that they’ll actually enjoy using
  • Quickly build consumer-like mobile and desktop experiences that you build once and deploy everywhere — all without the need to become an expert in consumer mobile app development
  • Bring next-gen integration and UIs to enterprise apps, which improve the employee experience with social media-like feeds together with virtual assistants that guide work
  • Create new revenue streams that enable differentiated experiences, across an incredible variety of use cases, that deliver real value to organizations of all types

What Are You Waiting For?

Join the first developer program designed to shape the future of work — with you at the center. We’ve got everything you need to get going right here, right now in our new Citrix Workspace Developer portal. Check it out and happy building!