Conflict-free deployment for desktop software

Thinstall application virtualization protects managed desktops by enabling easy virtualization of both commercial applications, such as Microsoft Office, and custom, in-house developed applications.

Challenges

Businesses depend on their desktop software to interact with customers, facilitate decision making, make transactions, and to communicate. IT’s challenge is to keep the applications running and to respond quickly to changes in business needs while minimizing impact on user productivity and maintenance effort.

• Corporate IT Administrators and Desktop Engineers are tasked with deploying both custom and commercial applications. Current desktop management tools enable software distribution, tracking of software assets, and updating of applications on end-user desktops.  However, even with these technologies, software installation and updates often results in application failures, loss of productivity, and high support cost.
• Corporate IT Developers are tasked with providing critical business applications while having to support best practice desktop management. The development of advanced applications is exciting; however installing, delivering and running software often presents challenges outside of the developer’s control.  End user computers are never consistent, corporate customers’ PCs may be locked-down to changes, and new frameworks may not be immediately available on every desktop.

Thinstall Solution

Thinstall application virtualization enables faster, conflict-free application deployment while maintaining the security and stability of managed desktops. Desktops remain protected from conflicts by running the application in a virtual sandbox, without making changes to the OS.

 

Application Virtualization removes the dependency of desktop upgrades and management that can bog down the innovation required in application development. The Thinstall Virtualization Suite makes application virtualization easy and integrates into your current packaging tools and electronic software distribution (ESD) infrastructure. It provides the following values to any company that needs to deliver applications quickly, for both IT Desktop Management Professionals and IT Developers:

• Speed delivery of applications by significantly reducing QA testing against stable desktop images and other software
• Eliminate installation and run-time conflicts on any Windows Platform
• Use any framework or code components without having to install anything on the host computer
• Ensure any application can run in a Terminal Server/Citrix environment; run multiple versions and instances of an application
• Focus on feature development rather than compatibility testing
• Leverage the tools used for software deployment such as SMS, Altiris, InstallShield for deploying a single EXE
• Run applications in isolation without permissions and administrative privilege changes, so no risk to desktop security
• Provide a flawless end user experience with no conflicts