System Integrators
Computer Sciences Corporation
A leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company, CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their strategic goals and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
AppSense technology provides the personalization and profile management component of CSC Dynamic Desktops. The CSC Dynamic Desktop is a virtual desktop solution that uses a combination of virtualization, thin client and secure access technologies to deliver a highly flexible personal desktop environment that are accessible from anywhere. With CSC Dynamic Desktop, applications and user data are stored on servers located behind firewalls. This enables employees to access their "desktop" remotely and securely, regardless of location, and it allows the IT department to rapidly deploy systems to new users or refresh desktops without having to touch them individually. AppSense user environment management technology provides users with a fully personalized Dynamic Desktop. By managing all aspects of the user independently of the desktop and applying this user data into the delivered desktop when needed, users have a PC experience in a virtual desktop environment and IT are able to standardize the corporate desktop and thus reduce management overhead.
Stephen Jeffers, Solution Director for CSC Dynamic Desktop states, "We are extremely pleased to have AppSense on board as the CSC Dynamic Desktop personalization solution of choice. Effective management of user and policy information enables a more dynamic and flexible response to changing business needs, tailored desktop environments for business partners and improved security through application of corporate policy at the user level. These capabilities are core to our Dynamic Desktop offering."
For more information on CSC Dynamic Desktop, please see www.csc.com/cscdynamics
For the CSC Dynamic Desktop brochure click here.
Hewlett-Packard
Company Overview
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totalling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008.
Partner Solution
AppSense is a member of the Hewlett-Packard Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This program is designed to help independent software vendors, developers, and system integrators create unique solutions across the broad spectrum of HP's platforms and operating systems.
IBM Corporation
Company Overview
International Business Machines (IBM) is the world's largest information technology company. It offers a variety of services ranging from business transformation consulting to software, hardware, fundamental research, financing and the component technologies used to build larger systems.
IBM has operations in over 160 countries worldwide including the UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China and Canada. The company is headquartered in Armonk, New York and employs about 340,000 people.
Partner Solution
AppSense is an IBM Advanced Business Partner having shown commitment to relationships with both IBM and our joint customers. We are also a member of the IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliance Program which joins IBM architecture with complementary technologies.
AppSense products are fully compatible with both IBM hardware and software and carry the Server Proven certification.
Technology Alliances
Citrix
Company Overview
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in Application Delivery Infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost.
Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.
AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions to the enterprise. AppSense is a Global Citrix Solution Partner, a founding member of the Citrix Ready Program and has a sizable number of joint enterprise customers around the world. AppSense extends Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop solutions by virtualizing the most important component in application delivery, the user. By separating and managing user data independently from the desktop and application, multiple delivery mechanisms can be used to deliver the user’s environment with no impact to the user experience.
Citrix XenApp provides a delivery infrastructure that makes it easy to deliver any application to any user with high performance and security at low cost. AppSense extends Citrix XenApp by providing additional levels of policy and personalization management, together with managing application access and system resource allocation - all in one solution.
AppSense Management Suite takes standardized XenDesktop virtual desktops and personalizes them for each individual user. Personal settings are persisted from session to session, enabling a new, pristine corporate desktop to be provisioned to users each time they logon. Combinations of delivery mechanisms can be used with no impact to the user experience.
A firm and prosperous relationship exists between Citrix, AppSense and their joint customers and partners. This relationship ensures joint Citrix/AppSense customers are provided not only with leading edge application delivery solutions, but also future-proof technologies that they can confidently invest in for the long term.
"Citrix has been working closely with AppSense for a number of years, and we are delighted to extend this relationship into the desktop virtualization market. With Citrix XenDesktop™ and a robust user environment management solution from AppSense, all of our enterprise users will have access to a fresh, new, personalized PC every time they logon." - Sumit Dhawan, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Citrix Systems.
Microsoft
Company Overview
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Partner Solution
AppSense products fully support the core Microsoft environments including Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows 2008, XP and Vista.
AppSense is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the ISV/Software Solutions Competency, having met rigorous requirements that demonstrate increased levels of certification, deep real-world experience, and customer reference projects independently verified by Microsoft.
AppSense software has also been independently tested by VeriTest to ensure that it successfully runs in a Microsoft environment, so that our customers can be assured of high quality and interoperability.
AppSense is working closely with Microsoft in the area of licence management and compliance. "AppSense Terminal Server Licence Management can benefit customers by helping insure a company's usage of centrally managed applications meet the device licensing models common with products like Microsoft Office 2007".
Parri Munsell, Director Software Licensing, Microsoft Business Division
VMware
Company Overview
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 120,000 customers and nearly 18,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC).
Partner Solution
AppSense and VMware share the common goal of enabling customers to gain the optimum value from their investment in virtual desktop infrastructure. AppSense is a leading VMware VDI partner, providing user profile and personality management for virtual desktops. Used in combination with VMware VDI, AppSense technology enables desktop administrators to enforce corporate policy, define personalization settings and manage user profile data across thousands of virtual desktops.
"VMware has been working closely with AppSense for many years, and we are delighted to continue our relationship as VMware VDI implementations accelerate," said Jeff Jennings, Vice President of Desktop Products and Solutions at VMware. "Through our collaboration with partners such as AppSense, customers can further improve the cost-effectiveness and manageability of VMware virtual desktops."
Hewlett-Packard
Company Overview
HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the last four fiscal quarters, HP revenue totalled $74.7 billion.
Partner Solution
AppSense is a member of the Hewlett-Packard Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). This program is designed to help independent software vendors, developers, and system integrators create unique solutions across the broad spectrum of HP's platforms and operating systems.
IBM Corporation
Company Overview
International Business Machines (IBM) is the world's largest information technology company. It offers a variety of services ranging from business transformation consulting to software, hardware, fundamental research, financing and the component technologies used to build larger systems.
IBM has operations in over 160 countries worldwide including the UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China and Canada. The company is headquartered in Armonk, New York and employs about 340,000 people.
Partner Solution
AppSense is an IBM Advanced Business Partner having shown commitment to relationships with both IBM and our joint customers. We are also a member of the IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliance Program which joins IBM architecture with complementary technologies.
AppSense products are fully compatible with both IBM hardware and software and carry the Server Proven certification.
Intel
Company Overview
Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel's mission is to do a great job for our customers, employees, and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide digital economy.
Partner Solution
AppSense has joined the Early Access Program run by Intel Corporation. This will give AppSense the chance to test and optimize its applications on the latest Intel hardware before it hits the market and across all of Intel's product range.
