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Features & Benefit s
New in AppStream 5.2.2 SP1
AppStream's on-demand application distribution and license management platform provides an optimal solution to serve the application management needs of enterprise environments, providing high productivity with controlled, guaranteed access to necessary applications from any Windows applications from any location at any time, including remote and mobile users.
- Reduced hard disk storage space for streamed applications
- Flexible application distribution - via USB, CD, or network download
- Full support for Windows Vista
- WAN Optimizer option
- Enhanced LDAP/Active Directory support
- SDKs available for both client and server customization
- Altiris SVS support
- MSI Streaming
- Improved performance in package upload window, export utility, provisional behavior
- Firefox support (IE plug-in)
- Pre-popluation of icons
- Robust failover capabilities for high availability configurations
- Ability to create local groups for flexible user management and provisioning
- Improved, more-extensive reporting, including tracking and reporting on offline usage
- Ability to pre-stream applications without end-user intervention
- E-mail upon license-threshold-reached event
The Challenge of Distributed Organizations
As organizations grow increasingly distributed and organizational boundaries blur, the PC management challenge increases — how to ensure secure, consistent application deployment and management across a distributed enterprise. AppStream provides the solution.
On-Demand Software Distribution Solves the Problem
The patented, proven AppStream software distribution solution and software license management platform streams applications from a central server out to local and remote PCs on-demand, where they are executed using local client resources just like conventionally-installed applications. AppStream's pull-based, on-demand software distribution platform combines the benefits of server-based computing (self-service access and centralized management & control) and distributed PC computing (disconnected application use and distributed processing), providing a "best of both worlds" solution. Software deployment via streaming is perfect for remote delivery across the Internet or low-bandwidth extranets because it streams only the application functions that an end user actually needs, when those functions are needed, rather than delivering the entire application in advance.
And AppStream doubles as a software license management platform, automatically enforcing and ensuring compliance with software licenses and preventing piracy, while simultaneously maximizing the value of software assets and optimizing the purchase of future software licenses.
With AppStream, end users can:
- Increase their productivity – with immediate, on-demand access to any application without IT involvement
- Lower their maintenance requirements – since updates and patches are deployed automatically and transparently
- Increase their flexibility – with the ability to access applications when remote or disconnected
- Use applications together regardless of access method – as streamed applications interact seamlessly with conventionally-installed applications
- Get up-and-running fast – as the user experience is identical to conventionally installed applications
With AppStream, IT administration can:
- Dynamic license management for ALL applications – re-harvesting idle licenses, expire licenses, and automatically provision it to other users
- Ability to pre-deploy selected applications – that are automatically updated and are always current
- Accelerate application deployment – providing universal access with a single central install
- Simplify PC administration – with a single, central management control point
- Effectively track license compliance – while eliminating the threat of piracy
- Optimize software license management – with more-informed license purchase decisions and increased utilization of current software assets
- Better understand end user needs by tracking actual application usage patterns
Track and Manage Conventional Licenses
For years, companies have been enjoying the dynamic license management and optimization features of AppStream. They save up to 50 percent on license costs because licenses can be deployed at the moment that they are required for productive use, and unused applications are automatically removed so their licenses are available for instant redeployment to other users.
Until recently, only streamed applications were eligible for these benefits. With AppStream 5.2, now any application can be managed and optimized with all of the same features. Whether installed by conventional ESD, CD, or even downloaded from the internet, IT managers can block the use of unauthorized applications, or simply get an absolute accounting of the applications in use in their enterprise. In some cases, it is sufficient to block the use of an application like P2P software only while running on the enterprise network.
Benefits of Conventional License Tracking (CLT)
- Full dynamic license management for ALL applications
- Enforce access to selected applications only
- Prohibit application execution while connected to the network
- Monitor installation of un-authorized applications - in real time
- Discover "hidden" applications and licenses
- Automatically uninstall unauthorized applications
- A single system to manage all licenses
System Requirements
AppStream Server (Single Node Configuration)
- Pentium IV, 700 MHz
- 1 GB memory minimum (2 GB recommended)
- 2 GB of free disk space, plus three times the space required for the applications that are to be deployed to the client systems. This could be different for a multi-node setup.
- Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Sever
- IE 6.0 or later
AppStream Client
Hardware
- Pentium III, 500 MHz
- 256 MB memory minimum
- 50 MB of disk space, plus twice the size of the installed application(s) (NTFS recommended)
Software
- Windows Vista, Windows XP SP 1, Windows 2000 SP 4, Windows 2003 SP 1
- 128 Kbps network connection (DSL, cable, or broadband recommended)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or later or FireFox 1.0 or later
AppStream Packaging Studio
- Pentium III, 700 MHz
- 256 MB memory minimum (512 recommended)
- 30 MB of free disk space, plus three times the size of the application package
- Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003
- System must be clean, i.e. the system should only be loaded with the operating system and the minimal utilities required to run the application. Alternatively, the system can be a mirror image of the system where the application may ultimately run.
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