Organization	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
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 delivers solutions to make applications secure and easy to access, anywhere, anytime and on any device or network. 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 sales of Enterprise and Service Provider products which include Workspace Services solutions, Delivery Networking products, Cloud Services products and related License updates and maintenance and Professional services and sales of the GoTo Business service offerings, which are delivered as cloud-based SaaS, and include Communications Cloud and Workflow Cloud service offerings. The Enterprise and Service Provider and the GoTo Business segment (formerly Mobility Apps) constitute the Company's two reportable segments. See Note 11 for more information on the Company's 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 product grouping that primarily includes the ShareFile product line. Prior to 2016, the ShareFile product line was included within the Company's Workflow Cloud products under the GoTo Business segment. The Company's management has changed how it views the business primarily due to operational initiatives announced in 2015, which include increased emphasis and investments in core enterprise products for secure and reliable application and data delivery. As a result, the Company realigned its Cloud Services products and services to be included in the Enterprise and Service Provider segment effective January 1, 2016 in contemplation of the strategic shift and the separation of the GoTo Business. See Note 18 for more information on the Company's separation of its GoTo Business.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or the "Company"), is a Delaware corporation founded on April 17, 1989. Citrix delivers solutions to make applications secure and easy to access, anywhere, anytime and on any device or network.

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 sales of Enterprise and Service Provider products which include Workspace Services solutions, Delivery Networking products, Cloud Services products and related License updates and maintenance and Professional services and sales of the GoTo Business service offerings, which are delivered as cloud-based SaaS, and include Communications Cloud and Workflow Cloud service offerings. The Enterprise and Service Provider and the GoTo Business segment (formerly Mobility Apps) constitute the Company's two reportable segments. See Note 11 for more information on the Company's 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 product grouping that primarily includes the ShareFile product line. Prior to 2016, the ShareFile product line was included within the Company's Workflow Cloud products under the GoTo Business segment. The Company's management has changed how it views the business primarily due to operational initiatives announced in 2015, which include increased emphasis and investments in core enterprise products for secure and reliable application and data delivery. As a result, the Company realigned its Cloud Services products and services to be included in the Enterprise and Service Provider segment effective January 1, 2016 in contemplation of the strategic shift and the separation of the GoTo Business. See Note 18 for more information on the Company's separation of its GoTo Business.