AppSense Closes Fiscal Year 2010 with Record Revenue and Company Growth

I am a big fan of AppSense and use it almost daily. I think anyone who knows the product will agree that from a delivery standpoint there have had some challenges delivering the new Personalisation Server feature but as a whole the products lead the way in User Profile management along with performance enhancements and application security.

Bearing in mind the challenges seen this year, the following article shows that AppSense have had a great year of business growth.

http://www.appsense.com/thecompany/article.aspx?Id=202

With the virtualisation market getting larger and larger you can only expect greater things next year. AppSense have some great new additions in the pipeline which are only going to cement their place in the market further. New features including User Rights Management (URM) and Strata™ providing the ability for User Installed Applications (UIA) are going to be critical in managing a virtual desktop estate. I can only assume that this kind of growth in a challenging year will lead to unprecedented growth in a potentially very exciting 12-18 months to come.

Citrix UPM3 improves logon times.

http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=151388189

posted by Michael Glover

The above article from Michael Glover shows that the improvements in UPM3 are significant. With the improvements being made in Citrix UP3 in both simplicity to manage the profile and also logon time enhancements is this now the standard starting point for profile management? If so does AppSense environment manager have a challenger in the profile management arena?

I am a big fan of AppSense and know how it can complement a solution by adding many layers of control. Process start-up actions, Group Policy, application lockdowns, are just the tip of the iceberg. However not all companies need this level of control or complexity. At what point does the simplicity of UPM3 reach a tipping point to the functionality of AppSense EM? 100 users, 1000 Users?

I see AppSense as the Enterprise solution and UPM as the Small-Medium business but I would love to hear other peoples opinions and hear about your implementations and how well they scaled out, especially UPM3.