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

Most general situations can be managed from within Citrix. AppSense is needed only in complex situations that require more granular control of the environment.

Incentivized

I would use it in organisations with lots of users to be managed; we use it in Citrix environments a lot and it works like a charm. I don't know if I would use it in really small businesses with random PCs, unless you really want to have some uniformity and strict use policy.

Incentivized

• Application Manager - automatic elevation of certain software to run with admin rights, transparent to users IF you set it all up properly in advance. Once you have this configured, it can be very beneficial.
• Environment Manager - custom actions based on detected conditions. For example, mapping one set of network drives once a user connects to a certain network, and a different set of network drives when they connect to a different network. And automatically remove the network drives when the user disconnects from the network. Do X, Y, and Z if a certain process starts or stops. If process A starts, automatically start process B.

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• Application Control
• Zone and context
• Zero Profile

Incentivized

• High learning curve to deploy

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

It has been a very affective tool for our company.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

It was relatively easy to configure.

Incentivized

Easy to deploy and transparent for the end user.

Always had a great experience dealing with the engineers.

Incentivized

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

Test, test, test.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Appsense now Endpoint Management is a great tool, eventually IWC will fade and Endpoint will absorb all its useful features. Once the transition to appsense is complete we will be shifting to it rather than IWC but in the mean time IWC is our tool of choice.

• Saved a lot on storage costs
• Improved the user experience.

Incentivized

• Less management
• Better user experience