Remove user complexity
The corporate IT environment is growing more complex by the day, as an explosion of new devices and applications puts increasing pressure on IT teams to control costs and protect sensitive information. The days of a single PC with a limited number of standardized corporate applications have given way to:
- Rapidly growing use of tablets, smartphones, and other non-traditional devices
- Increasing use of employee-owned devices for business productivity, even outside of traditional office hours
- An ever-expanding set of applications, with blurring lines between business and personal use
Each combination of hardware and software utilized by a user to perform their job represents a unique configuration that an IT organization must provide, manage and secure. For an average enterprise, this amounts to over 1 million unique configurations.
Further complicating matters is the fact that a high percentage of workers are mobile at least some portion of the time, creating additional complexity as IT teams struggle to balance user convenience with information security and IT efficiency.
While traditional desktop management cost measures such as devices, applications, and storage remain constant or drop over time, IT teams are finding themselves buckling under escalating user-related cost and complexity.
IT budgets are not growing at the same rate as these increasing user demands. In fact, many are shrinking. The only way IT teams can win is by changing the game.
Organizations cannot afford to manage every desktop on a per-device or unique instance basis. Instead you must manage the user once, across all of the devices and platforms they use. By shifting IT management focus away from individual devices and to the user, user virtualization addresses hidden operational costs such as.
The AppSense User Virtualization Platform reduces complexity by giving IT teams the tools they need to:
- Decouple and centralize the ‘digital personality’ of all users
- Stream targeted personalization data, including core operating system features and application-level personalization, on-demand to standardized desktop instances
- Enable seamless user roaming between physical PCs and virtual desktops
- Offer users persistent personalization even as they move between locally-installed, virtualized, and published applications
- Move users between Windows XP and Windows 7 as required to simplify and accelerate migration plans
- Provide a consistent, personalized computing experience both online and offline
>>> Precisely control every user
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