Rotterdam, November 8, 2012 - Scense, the fastest growing provider of User Workspace Management solutions, today released version 8 of its workspace management suite. Scense 8 changes each virtual and physical PC or laptop into a personal and customized workspace with universal access to IT resources, based on the environment of the user. With Live Profiles and dynamic printer management this ensures a high degree of freedom and personalization to the user, while the control remains firmly in the hands of the IT department.
"Scense 8 is the result of loyalty to our initial, user-centric view on IT, combined with feedback from our customers and partners," says Hessel Wellema, product manager at Scense. "In addition to a number of new powerful features and important changes in the Scense architecture, a large number of changes was implemented to increase the ease of use of our solution. As always, a very short Scense training for IT administrators should be sufficient facilitate end users the way they need today"
Scense has been known for years as an easy to use and efficient workspace management solution for desktop environments with PCs, laptops, terminal services and virtual desktops. Scense 8 goes further and addresses the latest IT challenges and use cases even better in the same elegant way. IT-management challenges related to mobile users, users with employee owned devices and virtual desktops can be solved in the same easy manner we know from earlier Scense versions.
With the support of WCF, the Scense Engines now run within Microsoft’s Internet Information Services. IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks. The switch to WCF also results in a change of communication protocols. The full Scense service portfolio will be available over the internet, including application distribution.
A large number of Scense premium partners was actively involved in the development process of Scense 8. Without exception, they have high expectations of this Scense release.
"With the deployment of Scense 8 within our VDI solutions, we are able to provide organizations, users and administrators with the flexibility they need today." says Sander van der Post, sales manager at DHS Informatisering." Sander continues: "Users gain flexibility by the "anytime, anyplace and any device"-character of the combined solutions. Administrators are able to provide users quickly and efficiently with new versions and updates of the operating system. Scense 8 will ensure that the user is provided with the applications, settings and data that are relevant to him at that time. The context awareness of Scense 8 will guarantee that it is all done in a safe and reliable way."
Client ICT Group also has high expectations of the release of Scense 8. "For over 17 years, Client ICT Group has a focus on the execution of deployment and migration projects.” says Lorenz Werts, Director of IT Client Group. Lorenz continues: "We expect Scense 8 to allow us to support our customers even better in ensuring continuity, improve effectiveness and thereby realizing cost savings. Especially the new functionality in Scense 8 to manage laptops of mobile workers and provide them with applications via the internet gives us just that unique approach that our customers expect from us."
Scense users with a valid maintenance contract can download the software free of charge from the Scense website. For evaluation purposes, a temporary 60 days license with all Scense features is also available for download.
About Scense
Scense is the fastest growing provider of workspace management and application distribution solutions. By applying a virtual separation between the desktop of the end user and the underlying operating system, Scense transforms costly, complex and distributed desktop environments in one easy to manage and transparent infrastructure. Scense addresses all IT management challenges related to virtual and physical desktops and laptops, application virtualization and application distribution. End users enjoy flexibility while the control remains firmly in the hands of IT management.
For more information about Scense, please visit www.scense.com or contact one of our partners.
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leased version 8.1 of its product suite. In addition to a large number of scheduled features and product enhancements, this version also includes a response to the feedback from its customers and partners on Scense 8.0. In addition to the support of Oracle databases, the new features and product improvements are mainly focused on the themes BYOC, reusability and complex desktop environments.
solutions have proven to be insufficient in delivering Windows user profiles with application settings and data across all available platforms. Because of that, Scense has shipped Scense Live Profiles.
Scense, the fastest growing provider of User Workspace Management software, has appointed Marcel Mayer (46) as Director Channel Sales. Mayer worked at Tech Data Azlan (the former CDG Europe BV), a company which has shown impressive growth figures over the last ten years. Mayer was employed since 2000 at CDG as Corporate Account Manager, PreSales Consultant and Sales Manager. As PreSales Consultant he was leading the Application Virtualisation of Softricity in the Benelux (known since 2006 as the App-V solution of Microsoft). Before CDG he was ten year active in the reseller channel as Account Manager. Mayer booked successes both in the reseller channel and with a distributor. “I therefore know what the requirements are from the end-user and I am familiar with the wishes of resellers. My preference is to position innovative software in the ICT market,” says Mayer.
“Most businesses have not yet migrated to Windows 7. It is expected though that almost all companies and enterprises will deploy it in 2011 and 2012,” says Hessel Wellema, VP Product Management of Scense. “The decision is forced by hardware refresh cycles, new end user management functionality or compatibility issues. Besides, Microsoft will stop the support of Windows XP in 2014. Research from Gartner shows that migrating to Windows 7 is a costly process because of many manual tasks that have to be carried out. On top of this there is hardly any room for errors or productivity loss. IT therefore has to look for new ways to address all the issues.”
lexity within the institute’s environment, by managing and delivering applications and desktops transparently together. The Scense dynamic workspace virtualization solution, which works in conjunction with Symantec™ Endpoint Virtualization Suite, has enabled ROC Mondriaan to re-deploy 15 of the 40 staff previously managing endpoints, reduce the time needed to provision a typical 30-endpoint classroom from four days to a few hours, and provide the 20,000 students and 2,500 staff with fast, easy access to data and applications. It’s also secure, compliance, and highly cost effective. So Cornet’s team now have time spare to buy new shoes.
ITHEC ICT and Scense announce today that they jointly will enter the market. ITHEC ICT is a well-known player in the area of virtualization and storage and Scense is the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management Software. The background of the co-operation is that ICT service customers are becoming increasingly critical about the quality and the added value of products and services. ITHEC ICT delivered added value during the last decade by implementing high quality innovative technological solutions.
Scense, the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management Software, is entering the UK market in partnership with UK distributor TDIST. Together with its resellers, TDIST is promoting the benefits of virtualization to help cut IT costs. Stewart Constantine, Sales Director at TDIST, says about the partnership: “Scense is the only User Workspace Management vendor which is offering end-users the chance to use their own computer on their school’s or company’s networks. I like the flexibility of their solutions and the fact that there is no need to individually license all users. The IT manager keeps control over who gets access to which applications, while at the same time empowering the end-users.” TDIST sees opportunities for the Scense solutions in the UK market place and is closely cooperating with resellers targeting the education market. “There are many possible customers for the software, especially in the VM space,” adds Constantine.
ICT service provider Ictivity started a Consultancy Partnership with Scense, the fastest growing provider of workspace management solutions. The Scense Workspace Management Suite transforms expensive, mixed and distributed desktop environments into a single, cost-effective, manageable and transparent infrastructure, by keeping the end user workspace and applications independent of the underlying Operating System. The partnership gives Ictivity the opportunity to be one of the first companies in The Netherlands to advise, implement and manage Scense products.