In this whitepaper, we provide an overview of how application management has evolved to this day, including the limitations with regards to application delivery on the modern workspace. We provide insight in how application layering can help future-proofing your digital workspace.
Workspace are continuously subject to change and innovation. As a result, application management in general remains time-consuming and challenging for many organizations. More specifically, application delivery faces additional challenges due to the evolving nature of technology and work environments in the modern workspace. For example, the diversity in devices and platforms, network connectivity in remote work, application compatibility with legacy systems and frequent security updates
Platform agnostic layering
Application layering is a technique that can help address these challenges. It provides a solution to efficiently manage and deliver applications to diverse endpoints while maintaining control, flexibility, and scalability. Application layering allows applications to be decoupled from the underlying operating system and hardware dependencies. By separating the application layer from the base operating system layer, it becomes easier to deliver applications across different platforms and ensure compatibility. Applications can be packaged once and delivered to multiple operating systems without the need for separate installations or modifications.
Our solution: FlexApp
Having a user-centric and platform-agnostic approach in mind, Liquidware developed its own application layering solution FlexApp. Packaged in FlexApp, applications are decoupled from the OS, allowing administrators to easily update and assign applications to users without changing any base images. The applications look and interact as if they were traditionally installed on the OS, without polluting the operating system. With FlexApp, applications can be packaged automatically, significantly fewer images are required, application delivery is simplified and security is increased. FlexApp is platform-independent and can deliver applications to all Windows workstations.
FlexApp attaches applications into a Windows environment on-demand.
Applications look and interact as if they are natively installed into the OS.
Apps can be packaged automatically, based on a PowerShell driven API.
Applications become portable application layers that can be assigned by group, department, or context-based.
Applications are delivered platform agnostic, as FlexApp supports all workspaces.
With App-V becoming end-of-life soon, many organizations are looking into alternatives. According to the “Application Compatibility Matrix” of ApplicationReadiness , FlexApp has the highest compatibility rate compared to MSIX and even App-V. Make sure to review application layering as a solution to enhance and future-proof your application delivery process!
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