Great once you've found it
January 25, 2023
Great once you've found it
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AppsAnywhere
The university uses AppsAnywhere to deploy, install and launch a wide range of applications to Windows machines on any of our campuses. Some applications are very large and time consuming to install on every machine individually. Updates and licensing restrictions, including maximum number of seats, can then be managed centrally. From the student's point of view, there is a 'one-stop shop' for any specialist application, which is always in the same place, regardless of where you are working exactly.
- Shows end users a full list of every application that is actually available to them
- Install a specialist application on any Windows machine on our network
- launch the application for use
- AppsAnywhere is difficult to find to start it. End-users don't know to look for 'AppsAnywhere' or what it looks like. They tend to look under the Start menu when looking for the target specialist application - can't find it. On the task bar, end-users do not recognise the AppsAnywhere icon. It can be frustrating to show them
- once in AppsAnywhere the search box does not stand our, so users tend to scroll down a very long list of 100's of applications to get to 'ZBrush'. the filters provided are not particularly useful eg most categories include nearly the entire set of applications
- AppsAnywhere does not automatically learn your frequently delivered applications, so there is no 'Recents'. Users can create a list of Favourites manually, but this is too bothersome
- licensing control
- ease of use for end-users
- centralised updating and delivery
- more flexible use of laboratory space - any class can take place anywhere (well, more so with AppsAnywhere). students can choose where they work
- relieves technical support of burdensome machine by machine installations
- relieves technical support of burdensome license management - some manual solutions are soooo time consuming
the only other way of providing students access to specialised software wherever they are that I've used myself is probably VMware Horizon, where students log in to a machine in the cloud that is pre-configured to run the software they need, and they run it there. This is much worse from the end-user perspective - dual authentication if often required again to log on to the virtual machine, sessions can expire and need to be renewed, and the user may not be able to access the other documents they need to get their work done eg write the report
Do you think AppsAnywhere delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with AppsAnywhere's feature set?
Yes
Did AppsAnywhere live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of AppsAnywhere go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy AppsAnywhere again?
Yes
AppsAnywhere Feature Ratings
Using AppsAnywhere
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Familiar | None |
- launch target app
- scroll long list
- search - search field tends to disappear
- favouriting - manual operation no automatic Recents