Citrix has acquired a privately held company that offers a cloud-based collaborative work platform, Podio.

The company says Podio is a natural extension of the Citrix collaboration business, providing today’s mobile and distributed workforce an easy, secure and social way to come together and work as teams. Podio will be part of the GoTo cloud services portfolio, which includes GoToMeeting.

Podio enables small and medium-sized businesses and teams within larger organisations to manage all types of business processes and associated workflows using pre-assembled apps from Podio’s free app market. In addition, its technology can be used to create customised workflows and social collaboration activities.

The platform integrates with traditional enterprise or business solutions as well as today’s popular cloud-based data storage, online collaboration and content tools including Box, Campaign Monitor, Dropbox, Evernote, FreshBooks, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Alerts, Instapaper and Zendesk.

“This acquisition represents an exciting new chapter in our collaboration business. Podio extends our ability to provide a simple, secure and ‘works for everyone’ collaborative work platform in this post-PC era,” said Brett Caine, SVP and GM for Citrix Online Services Division.