AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, with over ten years proven track record in the virtualization space.
ThinOps Consulting, Inc. is an AppSense Gold Certified Solution Partner (CSP), Citrix Gold Solution Advisor, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, and a VMWare Partner. Leveraging our partnerships combined with our experienced staff of consultants and engineers, we are poised to help reduce the costs and simplify management in your virtual environments.
At ThinOps, the core of our business is proving Citrix solutions on Microsoft platforms... AppSense brings a whole new level of control to this offering with unmatched soltions for user profile management, license management, and user migration solutions for the virtualized environment.
User Environment Management – The Third Layer of the Desktop
In order to reap the cost reduction and manageability benefits of virtual client computing, it is essential the user component of a desktop is managed independently of the desktop. The ability to abstract the user ‘personality' from the desktop, manage and store this personality separately and apply it to a virtual environment "on-demand" are the three tenets of user environment management.
Founded in 1999, AppSense is a technology provider specializing in user environment management (UEM) solutions for enterprise organizations. UEM is a complete solution for managing the user experience across combinations of application delivery mechanisms, user types and site locations. Based on extensive experience in server based computing, AppSense have expanded their reach into the desktop virtualization space. AppSense partners include Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Wyse, Symantec, CSC, IBM, Dell, EDS and HP.
| Whether desktops are delivered locally, published, streamed or virtualized – or combinations thereof – UEM ensures tailored policy is applied and personalization settings are persisted. AppSense technology is used around the world to accelerate user migration to virtual environments, manage policy, provide personal and predictable working environments to users, and leverage investments in desktop delivery technologies. AppSense is a Global Citrix Solution Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Solution Partner and member of the VMware Technical Alliance Program. |
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The Value of UEM in Virtual Desktop Environments
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MIGRATING USERS TO VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
Accelerate and simplify the migration of users from physical to virtual desktops through abstraction and central storage of user settings. UEM ensures that the user receives a seamless experience as they are migrated, ensuring high user adoption and low support costs post migration.
PERSONALIZING STANDARDIZED DESKTOPS
Standardization of desktops reduces management costs, increases business agility and minimizes storage requirements. UEM applies personalization data to standard desktop on-access, ensuring the user experiences a personal environment from a low-cost standard virtual image.
DYNAMIC DESKTOP ASSEMBLY
UEM participates in the desktop assembly process by dynamically applying computer level and user settings as the desktop is created. This ensures the user receives a consistent personal experience despite their desktop being ‘constructed’ using various delivery mechanisms and technologies.
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The Value of UEM in Server-Based Computing Environments
ENTERPRISE PROFILE MANAGEMENT
Enables administrators to provide a consistent, yet contextual experience for end users by delivering the security and performance benefits offered by mandatory profiles along with the flexibility offered by roaming profiles.
APPLICATION ENTITLEMENT
The use of unauthorized software is a primary factor in destabilizing user environments. Unauthorized applications are prevented from executing without high maintenance lists or scripts.
RESOURCE ENTITLEMENT
Ensuring applications are responsive to user actions is key to user adoption. Server resources such as CPU, Memory and Disk are utilized and assigned to users and applications according to defined business rules, maximizing ‘users-per-box’ by up to 40% and ensuring high quality of service.
Managing Microsoft Application Licensing
Microsoft desktop applications are licensed per device; meaning any device that can access the application requires a separate desktop application license. In virtual environments, therefore, a license is required for each client that can connect to the server where the application is installed. AppSense technology restricts access to applications by device name or IP address, providing application access control and in most cases, reducing the required number of Microsoft licenses required. AppSense is officially recognized by Microsoft in this regard for Terminal Services and virtual desktop environments.
The AppSense Management Suite
AppSense Management Suite is the first UEM solution for the enterprise. The Suite is comprised of four fully integrated products that provide policy and personalization management, including application and resource entitlement, across desktop delivery mechanisms such as Citrix XenApp™, Microsoft Terminal Services™, VMware VDM, Citrix XenDesktop™, and streamed and local applications.
The value of virtualized desktop environments is proportional to the number of users in the virtualized envirnment. The Management Suite has therefore been designed with the enterprise in mind. From mass-scalability to system redundancy capabilities to full lifecycle management of the user personality, AppSense technology has been proven enterprise-robust in many large scale implementations.
AppSense Management Suite comprises three components operating within a management framework called the Management Center:
AppSense Environment Manager - personalization and policy management, enterprise profile management, user migration, dynamic personalization
AppSense Application Manager - application entitlement, Microsoft licence management, security
AppSense Performance Manager - resource entitlement, server consolidation, consistent quality of service
AppSense Management Center – Multi-tiered architecture, Role Based Access Control, Automatic Failover, Events, Alerts, Automated Remediation
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