Application Lifecycle Management
Managing workspaces requires having the perfect desktop "image" of the Windows operating system and the applications required for each user persona. This becomes highly complex when dealing with a wide variety of user types from standard users to knowledge to power, who need a variety of sophisticated applications. Creating individual desktop images per user group can result in unmanageable desktop image sprawl and increased management costs.
What if you could better manage applications, separately from underlying Windows OS, to deliver them on demand?
FlexApp™ can greatly reduce the burden of base image and application management to combat desktop image sprawl. Applications can be easily packaged with the FastPackaging™ feature which can slice the time and effort it takes to mount and deploy applications. With no complicated templates or time-consuming manual virtual-volume creation tasks involved, the FlexApp Packaging Console automates VHD or VMDK container creation and is as easy and fast to use than the installation process of the application itself.
Get a FREE Cost Savings Analysis to identify cost savings for your environment.
• Audit the environment with Stratusphere UX for detailed application inventory — including installed vs. in-use applications.
• Identify the best candidates for management via FlexApp by user group.
• FlexApp FastPackaging and PackageOnce features speeds application deployment by up to 10x over other methods.
• Deploy apps to cloud or any Windows OS that supports the application..
Customer Savings Example
A large energy supplier leveraged Liquidware Stratusphere UX to get a handle on their application lifecycle strategy for 7,100 users. It was discovered that at least 381 applications were deemed excellent candidates to be converted to FlexApps. Each application averaged two updates per year, and it was estimated that five hours per app, per year would be saved by leveraging FlexApp to simplify application updates and delivery in the Cloud VDI enterprise. The organization’s admin cost was estimated at a conservative $75 per hour. Once implemented, FlexApp saved the organization an estimated $285,750 in application lifecycle maintenance.
Example: Screenshot shows a portion of a Cost Savings Analysis that focuses on Application Lifecycle Management.
