Organization	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
ORGANIZATION	ORGANIZATION Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or the "Company"), is a Delaware corporation founded on April 17, 1989. Citrix develops and sells products and services that enable the secure and reliable delivery of applications and data over public, private or hybrid clouds or networks, to virtually any type of device. Citrix markets and licenses its products directly to customers, over the Web, and through systems integrators ("SIs"), in addition to indirectly through value-added resellers ("VARs"), value-added distributors ("VADs"), original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs"), and service providers. The Company’s revenues are derived from its Enterprise and Service Provider products, which primarily include its Workspace Services products, Delivery Networking products and related license updates and maintenance and professional services and from its Mobility Apps products, which primarily include Communications Cloud and Workflow Cloud products. Enterprise and Service Provider and Mobility Apps constitute the Company's two reportable segments. As part of the Company's continued transformation, effective January 1, 2016, the Company reorganized a part of its business by creating a new Cloud Services business unit that will include the ShareFile product line. The ShareFile product line is currently included within the Company's Workflow Cloud products under the Mobility Apps segment. The Company is currently evaluating its segment reporting and goodwill reporting units for 2016 as a result of these changes. See Note 11 for more information regarding the Company's segments.

Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or the "Company"), is a Delaware corporation founded on April 17, 1989. Citrix develops and sells products and services that enable the secure and reliable delivery of applications and data over public, private or hybrid clouds or networks, to virtually any type of device.

Citrix markets and licenses its products directly to customers, over the Web, and through systems integrators ("SIs"), in addition to indirectly through value-added resellers ("VARs"), value-added distributors ("VADs"), original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs"), and service providers.

The Company’s revenues are derived from its Enterprise and Service Provider products, which primarily include its Workspace Services products, Delivery Networking products and related license updates and maintenance and professional services and from its Mobility Apps products, which primarily include Communications Cloud and Workflow Cloud products. Enterprise and Service Provider and Mobility Apps constitute the Company's two reportable segments.

As part of the Company's continued transformation, effective January 1, 2016, the Company reorganized a part of its business by creating a new Cloud Services business unit that will include the ShareFile product line. The ShareFile product line is currently included within the Company's Workflow Cloud products under the Mobility Apps segment. The Company is currently evaluating its segment reporting and goodwill reporting units for 2016 as a result of these changes. See Note 11 for more information regarding the Company's segments.