AppSense Management Suite v8.1.108.0
AppSense Management Suite v8.1.108.0 | 531 MB
The world leading user virtualization solution to the enterprise, AppSense Management Suite Version 8 is now available. This major release includes the recently announced Environment Manager 8.0, as well as major upgrades to Application Manager and Performance Manager. AppSense Management Suite Version 8.0 is a fully integrated solution comprising four components: Application Manager, Environment Manager, Performance Manager and the Management Center, providing complete Policy and Personalization Management, Application Entitlement and System Resource Entitlement across all desktop and application delivery mechanisms such as Citrix® XenApp, Microsoft Windows® Terminal Services, VMware VDI, Citrix® XenDesktop, Provisioned Operating Systems and Virtualized and Locally Installed Applications complete with reporting, auditing and failover capabilities.
In Version 8
- User Profile Migration
- Personalization Streaming
- Personalization Rollback
- Personalization Analysis
- Application Network Access Control
- End Point Analysis
- Disk I/O Resource Management
- Enterprise Scalability
AppSense Environment Manager enables low-cost, standard desktop images to be used to deliver fully configured and personalized desktops to all employees. This ensures maximum user adoption from a standard base image, further reducing desktop management cost, as well the complexity and risk associated with maintaining a large desktop estate.
Used by thousands of companies around the world, AppSense Environment Manager provides users with a ‘follow me’ personality – providing the same managed yet personal experience regardless of how the desktop is delivered. Combinations of virtual, local, published, streamed and provisioned desktop components are dynamically personalized as the employee uses them – enabling IT to use best of breed technologies without having to worry about consistency of user experience.
Key Features
- User Profile Migration
- Offline Mode
- Accelerate Microsoft Windows 7 Migration
- Personalization Rollback
- Application-Level Personalization
- Self Healing
- Personalization Streaming
- Personalization Analysis
- Cross Operating System Platform Support
- Triggers, Conditions and Actions
- Cross Delivery Mechanism Support
- AppSense Configuration Templates
- Configure and Personalize Microsoft App-V Applications
Improved Quality of Service
Ensuring a consistent quality of service is key to gaining user acceptance when trialing a new application delivery mechanism. Unresponsive environments are a major pain and often lead to users rejecting a new system, making quality of service just as important as the overall hardware consolidation or desktop centralization project. For most organizations there is a continuous exchange between quality of service and reducing server hardware.
By allocating CPU, Memory and Disk resource to applications and users and optimizing how user actions are processed, AppSense Performance provides a smoother, more responsive application set and also reduces hardware count by improving server capacity.
Hardware Reduction / Server Consolidation
Many IT departments are being tasked with consolidating their existing server infrastructure, some to simply system management, some to reduce power consumption and their carbon footprint. Huge savings in power, cooling costs, hardware, software licensing and management can all be made by optimizing resource use and consolidating servers. Whether you plan to maximize user or application density, AppSense Performance Manager enables a huge increase in server capacity by reducing the amount of resource required to run desktops on applications within a datacenter.
For example, consolidating 100 physical servers by 40% could save more than 120,000 kWh each year, cutting over 50 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The financial savings alone often provide return on investment within the first year of implementing AppSense Performance Manager.
Key features
- Resource Policy Management
- Disk I/O Resource Management
- CPU Smart Scheduler™
- Physical Memory Control
- Virtual Memory Optimization
- PC and Notebook Optimization
- Increase user productivity and acceptance
- Extend hardware lifecycle
- Ensure predictable service levels
- Improve system capacity
- Reduce hardware, power consumption, AC and carbon footprint
Regardless of how a users environment is delivered, it is essential that users receive only the applications they require and cannot introduce unknown executables into the environment. Delivery may be through presentation virtualization, desktop virtualization, OS and application streaming, personal computer, notebook or any combination of the above.
The use of unauthorized software is a primary factor in destabilizing user environments, and the costs associated with rectifying a corrupt desktop can be significant
Contextual Entitlement
The extent to which an employee has access to corporate applications can depend on the context of the accessing device. For example, a user in an Internet Cafe will typically have a different level of application access from an employee within the secure confines of the corporate LAN.
AppSense Application Manager is able to utilize information about the user’s context in order to determine the level of entitlement necessary. Parameters such as location, firewall settings and even time of day can be used to establish a necessary level of entitlement.
License Management
AppSense Application Manager is endorsed by Microsoft to enforce software licenses by controlling application usage on a per device basis. Passive mode enables monitoring, auditing and reporting to detail application access across the user and device base.
By controlling which users or devices have permission to run named applications, limits can be placed on the number of application instances, which devices or users can run the application, the timing of when users run a program and for how long. License audits and access restriction based on number of licenses can now be enforced regardless of method of application delivery.
User Rights Management
The desire by enterprise IT departments to lock down corporate desktop environments to maintain security and reduce support costs is frequently at odds with end-user demands for greater flexibility and convenience through desktop customization. User Rights Management solves this by enabling the elevation or reduction of user rights on a user, application or business rule basis. With User Rights Management, the privilege level of a user, group or role can be elevated or reduced for applications, control panel applets and tasks.
By controlling user rights throughout the user session, IT can now provide users with the accessibility they require to perform their job, while protecting the desktop and the environment and reducing desktop management costs.
Application Access Entitlement is one of the most important aspects of policy management, yet for most organizations it is one of the most difficult to manage. Typically it is controlled by complex scripts and high maintenance lists, often proving to be time consuming and inflexible. AppSense Application Manager automatically controls application usage on a per user basis out of the box, without the overhead of scripts or lists.
Key features
- Enterprise Application Policy Management
- End Point Analysis
- Application Network Access Control
- Software Licensing Control
- Passive Mode Monitoring
- Integrated Auditing Events
- Maintain environment in desired state
- Increased visibility into the application
- Enforce licensing, ensure compliance and reduce costs
- Reduces support calls and associated costs
- User’s remain focused on business applications
AppSense Management Center is the framework that enables AppSense Management Suite to be used across the entire enterprise. AppSense Management Suite is a user environment management solution that provides policy and personalization management as well managing entitlement to applications and system resources. Applying user environment management to server based computing environments, virtual, streamed and local desktops and combinations thereof, provides management, cost and risk reduction. The ability to scale this to thousands of users, therefore, maximizes value and return on your investment.
Enterprise Scalability
As well as ensuring that all the benefits of user environment management are available to a maximum number of users, AppSense Management Center ensures enterprise scalability in several other ways. As you evolve your desktop delivery estate, you will add to and combine desktop delivery technologies. From physical PCs to server based computing, virtual desktops and streamed applications, AppSense Management Center ensures applicability of AppSense Management Suite capabilities, enabling you to scale your desktop technologies in response to business need.
As more applications are introduced into the desktop estate, the ability to apply policy, personalization and entitlement is not affected. Finally as users become increasing mobile and access their desktop environment from disparate physical locations, AppSense Management Center ensures the accessing device has the very latest policy configurations, taking into account the context of the user.
Environment Visibility
AppSense Management Center enables complete visibility across the enterprise, coupled with the ability to look back retroactively over previous actions through comprehensive auditing and reporting capabilities. Should critical events occur at any point, such as maximum resource consumption or the attempted use of unauthorized applications, alerts are automatically raised to inform IT of the potential disruption prior to system degradation. The historic analysis of previous user actions and system behavior coupled with event monitoring and alerts allow for IT to forward plan and fine tune configuration settings, eliminating the pain and cost associated with a reactive approach to desktop management.
System Resilience
Since the ability for users to receive a compliant and personal desktop at any time is dependent on the availability of policy and personalization data, AppSense Management Center has been designed with a high level of resilience. With a multi-tiered architecture, policy and personalization data can be replicated across multiple geographic locations, providing backup in the event of hardware failure. This capability ensures all AppSense Management Suite configurations apply throughout the user session, regardless of the end point device location or means of network connection. This durable, yet flexible approach provides IT with the confidence that all users and devices receive a consistent and predictable working environment.
Key features
- Multi-tier architecture
- Central Management Console
- Secure, enterprise-scalable deployment
- Role-based Access Control
- Configuration Change Control
- Automatic Failover Support
- Events, Alerts, Reports and Auditing System
- Scale across thousands of users/servers/devices
- Scale across multiple delivery mechanisms
- Easy to use interface for rapid implementation
- Visibility into user environment and behavior
- Automated alerts and auto-fix reduces management overhead
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