Reducing TCO with user environment management Joel Thomas EMEA Channel Manager

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AppSense Reduce Cost with User Environment
Management Joel Thomas Joel.thomas_at_appsense.c
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• Reducing TCO with user environment
  managementJoel Thomas EMEA Channel Manager

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AppSense Summary

• Software company in server based computing and
  desktop virtualization
• Leader in User Environment Management Solutions
• Founded in 1999
• Global Presence, UK based
• Local Representative - SmartX
• 170 employees
• 3,000 customers
• Robust, profitable, growing software company

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Introducing user environment management
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user environment management Solution
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AppSense Solution Set
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Challenges

• Profiles
• - Bloat
• - Corruption
• - Long logons
• Cumbersome logon scripts
• Group Policy Management complex, time-consuming
• User, IT, Business

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Environment Manager

• Drastically reduce profile corruption
• Speed-up user logon times
• Replace logon scripts
• Profile rollback
• Facilitate Operating System migration/roaming
• Terminal Server, Desktop, VDI...
• User, IT, Business

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Challenges

• Ensuring users application access
• Managing security GPO, SRP, black/white lists
• Business resource ? being used on non-business
  applications
• Server rebuilds
• Controlling network access
• User, IT, Business

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Application Manager

• Ensure server gold-build / stability
• Protect against unlicensed software
• Increase user productivity
• Proactive security
• User, IT, Business

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Challenges

• Applications not written for multi-user
  environments
• Poor / inconsistent application performance
• CPU / Memory intensive applications
• Limited server capacity
• Server sprawl
• Performance-related troubleshooting
• User, IT, Business

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Performance Manager

• Increased Quality of Service to users
• Better performing applications
• Increased server capacity
• Server consolidation
• Reduced troubleshooting
• User, IT, Business

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Sources of Cost Reduction / Saving

• AppSense Environment Manager
• Faster User Logon Times
• Reduction In Profile Corruption
• Faster Profile Support Call Remediation
• AppSense Performance Manager
• More Users Per Server / Server Consolidation
• Improved Quality Of Service / Prevent Server
  Lockups
• AppSense Application Manager
• Reduce Server rebuilds
• Replace Time Consuming Lists/Scripts/SRPs
• Simple proactive secirity set and forget

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user environment management
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