Citrix and Liquidware Labs | Solutions Brief

Enhance Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop User Experience with UEM, Application Layering and Granular End-User Monitoring

Virtual

User EnvironmentManagement

Visibility

ApplicationLayering

Cloud Physical

• One user profile across VDI, RDSH, DAAS & physical desktops• Up to 10x faster logons vs. roaming profiles• Application and user rights management• Location/context-aware policy and profile capabilities• Automated migration to Windows 7/8.x & Server2008/12r2

• Reduce the number of images to manage• Deliver applications on-demand• Persistent user-experience on non-persistent infrastructure• Provision application volumes as VHD or VMDK

• User-experience monitoring• Diagnose root causes of issues and bottlenecks• Optimize resource capacity and performance• Grow and scale Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop environments

Liquidware Labs™ provides comprehensive User Management and Monitoring in one convenient suite known as Essentials. This bundled solution is comprised of ProfileUnity™ with FlexApp™ for User Environment Management and Application Layering and also includes Stratusphere™ UX for superior Visibility of User Experience metrics across any Windows® desktop, including Citrix® XenApp and XenDesktop. This bundle delivers user and application management to enable efficient delivery of the user persona and selected applications based on policies. This approach allows for the best desktop experience anytime, anywhere and on any device. Leveraging the Liquidware Labs Essentials bundle reduces infrastructure and user-management costs while improving user experience and flexibility in Citrix environments.

“Customers looking for Citrix-Ready certified User Environment Management, Application Layering, and added User Experience Visibility will find great value in Liquidware Labs Essentials bundle. This set of solutions include specialized features expressly made to support Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp environments. Our mutual customers will gain additional options to rapidly on-board users, deliver applications, and grow and scale their deployments while ensuring a quality user experience.”

Siddharth RabindranSenior Manager, Citrix Ready at Citrix

User Environment ManagementProfileUnity delivers full-featured User Environment Management that includes superior Profile Management, and Centralized Policy Management that goes beyond Microsoft® Group Policies, as well as advanced features such as Privilege Elevation and Application Rights Management.

Application LayeringFlexApp is an integrated part of ProfileUnity, offering Administrator-as-signed Application Layering with optional User Installed Application Layering features. Even complex apps can be assigned on a machine level, per user, group, or context-aware basis. The solution is compatible with virtually all desktops, including Citrix XenApp and Microsoft® RDSH.

VisibilityStratusphere UX provides industry-leading in-guest metrics that help you head off issues before they become mission-critical show stoppers. The solution supports all platforms and delivery approaches to provide success and minimize risk in all phases of the transformation lifecycle — from assessment and onboarding to proof-of-concept (POC) and pilot, and finally to production.

About Citrix ReadyCitrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure. All products featured in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing, thereby providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging its industry leading alliances and partner eco-system, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet a variety of business needs. Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, you can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only demonstrates current mutual product compatibility, but through continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability. Learn more at www.citrix.com/ready.

About Liquidware LabsLiquidware Labs™ provides desktop transformation and workspace management solutions for hybrid Windows desktop environments including Citrix® XenApp/XenDesktop and physical Microsoft® Windows PCs. Stratusphere™ FIT and Stratusphere™ UX products deliver visibility into desktop environments and support assessment, design, monitoring and diagnostics (Health Checks). ProfileUnity provides just-in-time delivery of User Profiles, context-aware policies, and Application Rights Management. FlexApp is an integrated feature of ProfileUnity that enables Administrator and User level application layering. Flex-IO supports IOPS acceleration in virtual desktop environments. The solutions are available in an extremely cost-effectively priced bundle Liquidware Labs Essentials. Liquidware Labs products are Citrix Ready and are available through a global network of partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

Liquidware Labs is the leading provider of User Environment Management, Application Layering, and Visibility solutions, which is available in Liquidware Labs Essentials bundle. VMware has recently validated the Liquidware Labs methodology with their “Horizon Application Management Bundle,” which they have targeted at Citrix customers. Liquidware Labs Essentials is a clear alternative for Citrix customers based on Liquidware Labs’ Citrix-Ready status, features, innovation, and price.

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Citrix and Liquidware Labs | Solutions Brief

citrix.com/ready

Corporate HeadquartersFort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Silicon Valley HeadquartersSanta Clara, CA, USA

EMEA HeadquartersSchaffhausen, Switzerland

India Development CenterBangalore, India

Online Division HeadquartersSanta Barbara, CA, USA

Pacific HeadquartersHong Kong, China

Latin America HeadquartersCoral Gables, FL, USA

UK Development CenterChalfont, United Kingdom

User Environment Management

Application Layering

Visibility

VMware® UEM

VMware® App Volumes

VMware® vRealize

$180 Concurrent User$120 Named User

Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity

Liquidware Labs FlexApp

Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX

$109 Concurrent User$59 Named User*ProfileUnity with FlexApp is available ala carte for $79 Concurrent User or $39 Named User

Liquidware LabsEssentials Bundle

VMware Horizon ApplicationManagement Bundle

Select Joint CustomersEducationCoast Community CollegeDevry UniversityMichigan State UniversityRowan UniversityUniversity of Texas at El Paso

Financial ServicesAllianz Global InvestorsJanus CapitalPrice Waterhouse CoopersRoyal Bank of ScotlandSuntrust Bank

RetailAbercrombie & FitchCareerBuilderPitney BowesSpectra EnergyThyssen Krupp

Federal & Local GovernmentDefense Contract Management AgencySandia National LaboratoriesSouth Carolina National GuardUS Court of AppealsState of Utah

HealthcareAmgenFlorida BlueGood Samaritan HospitalMountain States Health AllianceWest Georgia Health System

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