AppSense

AppSense has been providing user virtualization solutions and optimising the desktop user experience for over ten years, and based on enterprise customer feedback has developed the technology, experience and operational capacity to offer a solution to what has been to date the most challenging yet important aspect of the desktop to manage – the user.

Managing the user’s environment independently of platform or delivery mechanism provides freedom of choice in the technologies employed to deliver the desktop to the user.

• Virtualizing the user opens the doors to seamless adoption of new technologies
• IT can choose the best desktop and delivery option on an individual scenario and case by case basis.
• New delivery technologies can sit seamlessly side by side existing mechanisms
• Organizations can utilize existing physical desktop hardware AND move to a component based model;
  • separate the user from local OS and applications
  • redeliver applications via published or streamed and apply user personality to the desktop
  • Deliver user personality into different Windows platforms, eliminating the need to ‘migrate’ the user ever again
  • Provide immediate ROI benefits by replacing legacy personalization and policy technologies

AppSense have an unrivalled install base of over 5,000 enterprise customers, with environments supporting in excess of 100,000 users AppSense have millions of end users across the world.

“AppSense effectively defined the notion of “User Personalization”. With XenDesktop and Windows 7 adoption expected to pick up in lockstep in 2010, and with the possibilities for cloud-delivered desktops discussed more and more seriously every day, the company stands to do even better over the next 12 months.” Rachel Chalmers, The 451 Group

“AppSense provides solutions that extend Microsoft’s USV offering. AppSense is a leading provider of user virtualization technology to enterprise organizations. User Virtualization manages user-specific information independently of the desktop, and applies it into any desktop on-demand. IT Pros can deploy new apps, images, and systems without fear of losing user settings – making transitions to Windows 7 and App-V faster and without user disruption.” Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Director of Product Management for Microsoft Desktop Virtualization

“VMware has been working closely with AppSense for many years, and we are delighted to continue our relationship as VMware VDI implementations accelerate. Through our collaboration with AppSense, customers can further improve the cost-effectiveness and manageability of VMware virtual desktops.” Jeff Jennings, Vice President of Desktop Products and Solutions at VMware

“Citrix has been working closely with AppSense for many years, and we are delighted to extend our relationship into the desktop virtualization market. With Citrix XenDesktop and a User Virtualization solution from AppSense, all of our enterprise customers receive a familiar, personalized desktop from standardized components every time.” Sumit Dhawan, VP Product Marketing, Citrix Systems.

“Ovum considers that AppSense has developed a solution which enables the end-user organisation to deploy the type of desktop strategy that suits its requirements, rather than deploying a compromised, one-size-fits-all approach.  Many organisations are currently assessing how they manage Windows migration, transferring from Windows XP to Windows 7, or from locally installed applications to virtualised applications such as Microsoft Application Virtualisation (App-V). This is a really hot topic at the moment, and the AppSense approach is a cost-effective and viable option.  AppSense User Virtualisation will span all desktops, not just VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), meaning that the market potential for User Virtualisation covers physical desktops, virtual desktops, and server-hosted shared desktops” Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst, Ovum