There is growing demand to have applications delivered in a seamless, unified experience; to any device, at any time, and from any location. IT must balance governance, compliance risk, and supportability with providing a consumer-like experience to enterprise employees. The latest release of Flexera Software’s App Portal, the universal enterprise app store, bridges the divide between employees and IT needs, and provides simple and universal delivery of enterprise applications.
Learn how Flexera Software’s App Portal is a unique solution which:
• Increases governance, efficiency, and employee satisfaction by adding the app store to your IT service catalog
• Improves the user experience with a single universal app store for both desktop and mobile apps
• Unifies back end systems to automate the entire process and deliver applications to users faster
• Reduces software costs with tighter alignment with Software License Optimization
Vendors are releasing updates more frequently – 30% of applications require updating and redeployment annually
Growing demand for IT responsiveness to changing business priorities- business leaders want to adopt new technology quickly and users demand faster application delivery
Increasingly heterogeneous computing environment - applications, deployment types and devices in the organization
Required to ensure continuous licensing compliance, optimize software investments and future-proof against the risks and costs of constantly evolving technology.
Flexera is the industry standard used to:
1. Ensure continuous licensing compliance
2. Optimize software investments, and
3. Future-proof against technology changes
Many employees carry multiple personal and corporate-owned devices, dictating varying levels of management policy to track and protect the business data accessed by and used on mobile platforms.
IT must gain control of mobile apps and deliver the same types of services around applications that they have for the desktop. Enterprises already have numerous choices for downloading software onto PCs, but most of them don't include support for smartphones and tablets. They are beginning to formalize more standard support for mobile devices, and are looking for ways to manage mobile application provision, especially as they develop their own in-house apps to extend more complex data to these devices.
Sources for business-to-employee (B2E) apps vary widely, including individual user downloads of public apps, business unit purchases of apps and IT-led custom development. This mix thwarts centralized visibility and management.
Source: Use the Mobile App Mix to Choose an Enterprise App Store Strategy. Published: 30 June 2014
Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees.
Survey Analysis: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
Organizations have active investments in ServiceNow and BMC Remedy and are keen to provide a unified and integrated employee experience
Integrating with more deployment tools streamlines application delivery enabling IT to maximize existing infrastructure.
Many employees carry multiple personal and corporate-owned devices, dictating varying levels of management policy to track and protect the business data accessed by and used on mobile platforms.
IT must gain control of mobile apps and deliver the same types of services around applications that they have for the desktop. Enterprises already have numerous choices for downloading software onto PCs, but most of them don't include support for smartphones and tablets. They are beginning to formalize more standard support for mobile devices, and are looking for ways to manage mobile application provision, especially as they develop their own in-house apps to extend more complex data to these devices.
Sources for business-to-employee (B2E) apps vary widely, including individual user downloads of public apps, business unit purchases of apps and IT-led custom development. This mix thwarts centralized visibility and management.
Source: Use the Mobile App Mix to Choose an Enterprise App Store Strategy. Published: 30 June 2014
Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees.
Survey Analysis: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
Organizations have active investments in ServiceNow and BMC Remedy and are keen to provide a unified and integrated employee experience
Integrating with more deployment tools streamlines application delivery enabling IT to maximize existing infrastructure.
Many employees carry multiple personal and corporate-owned devices, dictating varying levels of management policy to track and protect the business data accessed by and used on mobile platforms.
IT must gain control of mobile apps and deliver the same types of services around applications that they have for the desktop. Enterprises already have numerous choices for downloading software onto PCs, but most of them don't include support for smartphones and tablets. They are beginning to formalize more standard support for mobile devices, and are looking for ways to manage mobile application provision, especially as they develop their own in-house apps to extend more complex data to these devices.
Sources for business-to-employee (B2E) apps vary widely, including individual user downloads of public apps, business unit purchases of apps and IT-led custom development. This mix thwarts centralized visibility and management.
Source: Use the Mobile App Mix to Choose an Enterprise App Store Strategy. Published: 30 June 2014
Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees.
Survey Analysis: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
Organizations have active investments in ServiceNow and BMC Remedy and are keen to provide a unified and integrated employee experience
Integrating with more deployment tools streamlines application delivery enabling IT to maximize existing infrastructure.
Getting the right app to the right user at the right time is hard in todays complex enterprise environments
Create the Right User Experience
Help desk systems are not user friendly for applications
Everyone has a smartphone and knows app stores
Bring in IT Governance & Control
Create workflows for approvals
Enforce your license rights and entitlements
Automate Wherever Possible
Reduce or eliminate common manual processes
Leverage your existing investments
Use your existing deployment technologies
Support multiple technologies
“One stop shop” for physical, virtual, and mobile
Support both User and Device deployment models
If not all, almost everyone here has a smartphone with applications running on them that have been downloaded from an app store…be it Apple’s App Store, Google Play or the Microsoft Windows Store. In fact, I think the next generation i.e. our kids know more about AppStores than we do. They have a strange way of only finding those apps that are not free!!
Anyway, these app stores have brought about a new level of usability and rich content for users to look for and consume software on their devices.
Show of hands of who is already familiar with what an enterprise app store is.
Essentially, the idea is to take all the good things from a consumer app store and apply company’s IT policies and compliance rules to it. Pretty simple…right.
App Portal gives your employees a great app store experience even when the enterprise environment is growing more complex. IT delivers reliable applications using AdminStudio and saves on software licensing costs with FlexNet Manager Suite.
understands what device(s) are used and shows apps for the current device and other devices registered to the user.
The ultimate in end user convenience, visit one place to request apps to any and all of their devices
Any app type, any deployment model
MSI apps can be provisioned to a laptop and VDI instance
Mac apps can be provisioned to Mac devices
Virtualized apps can be provisioned to a laptop and VDI/Remote Access
Mobile apps can be provisioned to a mobile device
Web and SaaS user accounts can be provisioned
User can install, remove, validate, and replace apps for all their devices
The need to support multiple storefronts / portals is reduced or eliminated.
The end user now has a single place to visit for application requests and a single place to review their installed apps across devices.
User can install, remove, validate, and replace apps for all their devices.
The experience is flexible and convenient for the end users.
App Portal gives your employees a great app store experience even when the enterprise environment is growing more complex. IT delivers reliable applications using AdminStudio and saves on software licensing costs with FlexNet Manager Suite.
understands what device(s) are used and shows apps for the current device and other devices registered to the user.
The ultimate in end user convenience, visit one place to request apps to any and all of their devices
Any app type, any deployment model
MSI apps can be provisioned to a laptop and VDI instance
Mac apps can be provisioned to Mac devices
Virtualized apps can be provisioned to a laptop and VDI/Remote Access
Mobile apps can be provisioned to a mobile device
Web and SaaS user accounts can be provisioned
User can install, remove, validate, and replace apps for all their devices
The need to support multiple storefronts / portals is reduced or eliminated.
The end user now has a single place to visit for application requests and a single place to review their installed apps across devices.
User can install, remove, validate, and replace apps for all their devices.
The experience is flexible and convenient for the end users.
Address the enterprise need to service applications consistently for both Windows and mobile devices and give employees a single integrated process to request apps across all devices with one check out process.
Survey Analysis: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees.
Email approval requires VPN access
When customers are needing to reduce risks from Apps downloaded from public app stores or when they want to direct employees to the approved apps from public app stores, App portal can be the one stop place to get all enterprise approved apps.
“Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees. “
Gartner: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
When customers are needing to reduce risks from Apps downloaded from public app stores or when they want to direct employees to the approved apps from public app stores, App portal can be the one stop place to get all enterprise approved apps.
“Organizations have not standardized management and security policies across third-party and internal apps and lack a uniform inspection, distribution and updating mechanism for the apps being used by employees. “
Gartner: What IT Leaders Need to Know About Employee BYOD Attitudes in the U.S. Published: 1 May 2014
Out of the box Integration with ITSM systems takes advantage of current enterprise investments and the large customer footprint that exists with industry leaders.
App Portal Workflow can create ITSM Incidents based on the following events
-On submit no Approval
-On submit Approval
-Update Existing Incident
-On request Approval
-On Request Rejected
-On Submit for Install
-On Submit for Uninstall
-On Success Install
-On Fail Install
-On Success Uninstall
-On Fail Uninstall
-On Check Status
Out of the box Integration with ITSM systems takes advantage of current enterprise investments and the large customer footprint that exists with industry leaders.
App Portal Workflow can create ITSM Incidents based on the following events
-On submit no Approval
-On submit Approval
-Update Existing Incident
-On request Approval
-On Request Rejected
-On Submit for Install
-On Submit for Uninstall
-On Success Install
-On Fail Install
-On Success Uninstall
-On Fail Uninstall
-On Check Status
Out of the box Integration with ITSM systems takes advantage of current enterprise investments and the large customer footprint that exists with industry leaders.
App Portal Workflow can create ITSM Incidents based on the following events
-On submit no Approval
-On submit Approval
-Update Existing Incident
-On request Approval
-On Request Rejected
-On Submit for Install
-On Submit for Uninstall
-On Success Install
-On Fail Install
-On Success Uninstall
-On Fail Uninstall
-On Check Status
Out of the box Integration with ITSM systems takes advantage of current enterprise investments and the large customer footprint that exists with industry leaders.
App Portal Workflow can create ITSM Incidents based on the following events
-On submit no Approval
-On submit Approval
-Update Existing Incident
-On request Approval
-On Request Rejected
-On Submit for Install
-On Submit for Uninstall
-On Success Install
-On Fail Install
-On Success Uninstall
-On Fail Uninstall
-On Check Status
Out of the box integration with
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Symantec Client management Suite (Altiris)
VMware AirWatch
Active Directory
Out of the box integration with
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Symantec Client management Suite (Altiris)
VMware AirWatch
Active Directory
Multilevel, conditional, business facing approval workflow
License compliance, enforcement, leasing, and reclamation
Accelerate desktop transformation / migration
Self-service and automation of entitlement checks enable productivity gains for both IT and business users
Automation of the enterprise application lifecycle improves operational efficiency and improves service delivery.
Ongoing license reclamation allows organizations to eliminate software waste while reducing administrative overhead