Nationwide Children’s Hospital, with over 10,000 users and ranked in the US News & World Reports 2010 ‘America’s Best Children’s Hospitals’ has selected AppSense User Virtualization over other methodologies to enable their migration to and the adoption of a Windows 7 Citrix XenDesktop environment.
The Hospital first saw AppSense technology while attending a joint webinar with Citrix XenDesktop and chose AppSense User Virtualization for many reasons including:
- “AppSense user virtualization technology delivered the exact solution we needed to confidently migrate to virtual desktops without affecting the user experience.”
- “We selected AppSense because it was a comprehensive product that featured everything we needed to fix the problems we were having, including application configuration and effectively managing access to applications for roaming workstations.”
- “What we quickly began to realize is that AppSense future-proofs our design, allowing us to accommodate our users’ needs as they arise.”
- “AppSense has provided us with is a pain-free end-user migration to virtual desktops, and it is delivering the customization of applications like Microsoft Office to give users the feeling of having the same exact desktop every time”
- “With over 10,000 users and 8,000 endpoints, security is crucial to our desktop environment.Without AppSense, we would have needed to apply our most restrictive policies from all locations, which would have been extremely disruptive to our end users.”
A copy of the PDF Case Study can be read here
As a Citrix Ready Leadership partner and “recommended solution for advanced user personalization and desktop configuration requirements in enterprise environments”, AppSense User Virtualization and Citrix XenDesktop is fast becoming the defacto desktop solution in health care organizations around the world. You can learn more about other leading hospitals that have chosen a combined Citrix and AppSense solution here:
University of Texas Medical Branch – Citrix XenDesktop & AppSense Customer Video Interview
Another Customer Video – Kaweah using AppSense, Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and iPads
Banner Health prescribes AppSense for healthy servers
Keep an eye out for more joint Citrix and AppSense for Desktop Transformation as I will be posting more soon…
Thanks
Gaz
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