The reality today is that many companies are hitting a wall of complexity when it comes to managing their ever growing number of desktop applications and diverse access scenarios. This complexity translates into a huge amount of time and money spent providing what amounts to a patchwork solution.

Application virtualisation and streaming reduces the cost of testing, installing and supporting applications. Rather than installing applications on user PCs, applications are streamed to a protected virtual environment on the client device or application server (Citrix Xenapp). The virtual environment controls how applications interact with the local operating system, which prevents application conflicts.

Application virtualisation and streaming greatly accelerates application delivery by reducing regression testing and simplifies management with streamlined maintenance, upgrades and de-provisioning. In fact, using application virtualisation and streaming is the most efficient method of removing all traces of an application. Caching and streaming technology makes applications available even when users are not connected to the network. Below we have included a video which helps explain the concept and benefits of application virtualisation on Citrix Xenapp.