Citrix Ready | Solutions Brief
Enhance Citrix XenApp and
XenDesktop User Experience
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Liquidware Labs Solutions Provide User Environment Management,
Application Layering and Granular End-User Monitoring
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Citrix Ready | Solutions Brief
Enhance Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
User Experience with UEM, Application Layering
and Granular End-User Monitoring
“Customers looking for
Citrix Ready verified User
Environment Management,
Application Layering, and
added User Experience
Visibility will find great value
in Liquidware Labs Essentials
bundle. This set of solutions
includes 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.”
Liquidware Labs provides comprehensive User Management and
Monitoring in one convenient suite known as Essentials. This bundle 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.
Essentials 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.
Siddharth Rabindran
Senior Manager, Citrix Ready at Citrix
Application
Layering
User Environment
Management
Visibility
Virtual
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Cloud
Physical
Citrix Ready | Solutions Brief
User Environment Management
Select Joint Customers
Healthcare
Amgen
Florida Blue
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mountain States Health Alliance
West Georgia Health System
ProfileUnity 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.
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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
Education
Coast Community College
DeVry University
Michigan State University
Rowan University
University of Texas at El Paso
Financial Services
Allianz Global Investors
Janus Capital Group
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Royal Bank of Scotland
SunTrust Bank
Enterprise
Abercrombie & Fitch
CareerBuilder
Pitney Bowes
Spectra Energy
ThyssenKrupp Steel
Federal & Local
Government
Defense Contract Management Agency
Sandia National Laboratories
South Carolina National Guard
US Court of Appeals
State of Utah
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Application Layering
FlexApp is an integrated part of ProfileUnity, offering Administratorassigned 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.
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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
Fully compatible with Citrix Provisioning Services and Machine
Creation Services
Visibility
Stratusphere 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.
• 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 is the leading provider of User Environment
Management, Application Layering, and Visibility solutions, which
is available in its Essentials bundle. Liquidware Labs Essentials is a
clear alternative for VMware’s “Horizon Application Management
Bundle,” based on Liquidware Labs’ Citrix Ready status, features,
innovation, and price.
See chart for comparison.
VMware Horizon
Application
Management Bundle
Liquidware Labs
Essentials Bundle
User Environment
Management
VMware UEM
Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity
Application Layering
VMware App Volumes
Liquidware Labs FlexApp
Visibility
VMware vRealize
Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX
$180 Concurrent User
$120 Named User
$139 Concurrent User
$79 Named User
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*ProfileUnity with FlexApp is available à la carte
for $109 Concurrent User or $59 Named User
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About Citrix Ready
Citrix 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 Labs
Liquidware 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 called 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.
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