Ivanti Environment Manager vs. RES ONE by RES Software (discontinued)

AppSense does solve a lot of problems and can do some cool things. However, I think competing products may do the same job without some of the bugs and issues I have seen with AppSense. The automatic/transparent "run as Administrator" feature is very slick when set up properly and makes dealing with poorly coded legacy applications very easy. The flexibility it gives you with all of the stuff it can do is great. Take actions X, Y, and Z at logon based on these conditions, etc.

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It is very well suited for environments where users move/roam between systems such as VDI, hosted shared servers, or where immutable systems are in place (mandatory profiles or desired state systems).

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• Capturing application settings per user.
• Office policy settings.
• Granular control of settings per application.

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• Lock down OS settings, network, and files.
• Capture profile settings and make them easily accesible and fast to load.
• Create and deploy registry changes for end users.
• Capture user customizations.
• Content Filtering (Web).

• High learning curve to deploy

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• It would be nice if the instant report function had the possibility to also show added users/groups

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It has been a very affective tool for our company.

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The tool is integral to how business is done by end users, thus it's imperative to keep the solution around. Not to mention the business leverages the experience to assist clients with building out the solution for their needs.

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It was relatively easy to configure.

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Easy to deploy and transparent for the end user.

Always had a great experience dealing with the engineers.

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Ivanti's support department is great. They resolved incidents great and quickly.

Test, test, test.

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The implementation is typcially pretty simple on a flat active directly and non-DMZ based environment. Once things become more complex it is imperative to move slowly and test frequently with UAT groups and engineers.

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The decision to use AppSense was not mine. If I had to choose a product today, I would at least want to evaluate the alternative from RES Software - from what I have read/heard it sounds like the better choice as far as reliability, support, and lack of bugs. I have not personally used it yet though.

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Totally different approach. More easy and more flexxible.

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• By capping the CPU shares accessible by a rogue application, AppSense allowed us to continue to provide what the customers required while adjustments to the application were performed.

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• It increases managability which saves a lot of time, which saves money
• It increases troubleshooting possibilities which helps solve problems faster

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