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AppSense Redefines Management of Policy, Personalization and Performance for Windows Desktops with DesktopNow
February 2013 by Marc Jacob
AppSense announced significant enhancements to its market leading Management Suite, newly rebranded as DesktopNow, including new enterprise features and capabilities. Building on previous releases, DesktopNow demonstrates clear understanding of customer challenges and reaffirms the importance of people-centric manageability with a major focus on enterprise readiness, rapid adoption and product simplification. Together with AppSense’s newest User Virtualization solutions, MobileNow and DataNow, DesktopNow enables organizations to implement solutions for a range of IT priorities including Windows 7 Migration, Desktop Optimization, BYOD, Mobile Data Access and User Rights Management.
AppSense DesktopNow contains components for enhancing user productivity by providing a consistent user experience balanced with improved management and security in Windows desktop environments:
· AppSense Application Manager: Control application access, ensure license compliance, manage user rights and control network and web access.
· AppSense Environment Manager: Setup, configure, lockdown, self-heal and personalize user environments across multiple devices and locations.
· AppSense Performance Manager: Optimize CPU and Memory usage, improve server density, reduce response times and enable hardware consolidation.
DesktopNow enables centralized management, setup & configuration, lockdown and personalization of any Windows desktop regardless of device, platform, delivery mechanism, or location. New Powershell and increased API support continue to allow enterprises to deploy granular and flexible management across their entire desktop estate. Customers using Microsoft System Center 2012 Suite will find tight integration across the DesktopNow platform designed to reduce costs, enable self-service supportability and eliminate complexity.
New Standalone AppSense Application Manager User Rights Management Edition
The AppSense Application Manager - User Rights Management Edition (URM) enables customers to purely focus on user rights management. This tailored standalone product provides a simple, cost-effective approach to privilege management. The URM edition eliminates unnecessary administrative accounts privileges, improves security and user productivity as well as reduces desktop TCO and support calls. The product provides simplified rights management and allows users to elevate installations of known good applications using new metadata functionality. AppSense Application Manager - User Rights Management Edition empowers IT to balance security with user flexibility. Learn more with the AppSense User Rights Management White Paper.
