Precisely control every user
As workers become more mobile and new devices such as tablets and smartphones play an ever-increasing role in the corporate setting, IT teams face a constant challenge of balancing user satisfaction and productivity with strategic imperatives like protecting sensitive corporate data and controlling IT operations costs.
The inevitable transformation that is occurring in corporate computing can no longer be ignored or resisted. Savvy users want to work effectively and achieve in their careers. To accomplish these goals they will navigate around restrictive IT policies or worse yet; depart for other companies where they can be more productive. At the same time, giving users unlimited freedom will lead to greater support demands on the IT team, lost user productivity, and increased security exposure.
Even in static PC environments, many IT organizations rely on a combination of scripts and multiple point solutions and other flawed controls to govern how corporate desktops are used. As multiple devices and platforms are adopted, these approaches are difficult to scale, adapt, and maintain as the desktop environment evolves and as key personnel come and go.
AppSense User Virtualization gives IT teams the control and flexibility they need to maintain an increasingly complex and heterogeneous desktop environment while remaining responsive and adaptive to the needs of users.
The AppSense User Virtualization Platform includes a powerful desktop governance framework to:
- Control Application Entitlement
- User Rights Management
- Configure Network Access
- Lockdown aspects of the desktop
- Self-heal sensitive data or settings
This puts unparalleled power and control in the hands of IT administrators, all from a straightforward graphical management interface. Policies can easily be modified or enhanced, and can even automatically adapt on the fly based on device, location, or other contextual factors.
Control is important, but so too is user productivity. With AppSense in place, IT teams can establish a secure baseline while retaining the flexibility to selectively elevate user rights based on business need. IT teams no longer face a choice between giving users full administrative rights or no rights at all. Instead, they can be responsive to specific user needs while retaining a high degree of control.
The user rights management and application control capabilities of the AppSense User Virtualization Platform give IT teams the ability to:
- Surgically control access to base operating system functions
- Manage access to applications or lower level elements such as ActiveX controls, VBscripts, and registry configuration files
- Control network access at the individual application level
- Selectively elevate user rights for authorized activities without granting full administrative rights
- Perform analysis-based policy creation and tuning
- Identify and capitalize on opportunities for application licensing savings
The result is a user-centric desktop governance approach that gives IT the power to deal with the practical desktop management challenges of today and prepare for the dynamic desktop of tomorrow.
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