stratusphere and profileunity pro product overview

User Experience Management Stratusphere and ProfileUnity Pro

User Experience Management

User Experience (UX) Management – Methodology and solutions to deliver the best available current and next generation desktop experience. Successful UX Management speeds adoption, lowers costs, and increases user productivity.

One methodology, One set of solutions = comprehensive and successful User Experience Management

Assessment Evaluate what you have today, what you are using and how you use it

Layered Profile Management Separately manage application settings and user data from OS

Layered Personalization Encapsulate and dynamically apply user settings per desktop, per OS

Service Level Assurance Perform real time-diagnostics and health-check status auditing to deliver optimized user experience

Liquidware Labs UX ManagementComprehensive User Experience Management

All Centrally Available from the Stratusphere Hub

Stratusphere Fit(Assessment)

•Identify user behavior•Identify application workload•Establish fitness rating

ProfileUnity Pro(Layered Profile Management)

•User settings and data migration (block level sync) •Profile management (speed, size, compliance)•OS portability (Win2K, TS, XP, Vista, Win7)

ProfileUnity Pro(Layered Personalization)

•Layered settings (applied per OS, IP, other Policy)•Delivers settings specific to user•Delivers setting specific to desktop

Stratusphere UX(Service Level Assurance)

•UX Rating (User Experience)•Diagnostics (reduce TCO in complex infrastructure)•Drill down to granular details, reporting and alerting

Assessment – Stratusphere Fit

Assessment Features and Functionality

Desktop Fitness •Provides an intuitive view of your infrastructure •Delivers decision support data for identifying users / desktops for the next generation desktop

Identify User Behavior •Monitors usage and correlates data to identify users and groups that warrant additional resources or updated hardware

Identify Application Workload •Identifies what users are using which applications and to what extent


Assessment Benefits

Desktop Fitness •Reduces time to adoption•Speeds implementation

Identify User Behavior •Right-size your infrastructure

Identify Application Workload •Enables easy allocation of resources•Streamlines licensing

Personalization Management – ProfileUnity Pro

Layered Profile ManagementFeatures and Functionality

Migration • Harvests user profile personalization, application settings and user data from existing desktops

• Data migration with invisible block level sync with CPU priority and bandwidth control

• Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP support

Management • Provides for granular control over what portions of the profile are to be managed and made portable

• Compresses size of profile for space savings and speeds transfer

Portability • Heterogeneous Windows OS supports• Forward and backward compatibility of application

settings• Policy based control - OS, IP, multiple user groups,

and more

Personalization Management – ProfileUnity Pro

Layered Profile ManagementBenefits

Migration • Migrate user profiles – no work lost• Upgrade applications – keep settings, i.e. Word 2003/07• Speeds user adoption• Satisfies users with a familiar environment

Management • Decrease logon times and reduce network storage requirements

• Reduces profile bloat

Portability • Manage one profile per user, not one per machine• Enables trouble free non-persistent VDI sessions

Profile Management – ProfileUnity Pro

User Configuration – ProfileUnity Pro

Layered Personalization (user configuration)Features and Functionality

Delivers settings specific to user • Map drives, printers, folder redirection• Auto-create RDP shortcuts, other desktop

shortcuts

Delivers setting specific to desktop

• Deploy settings by Group, IP, OS, VPN vs. LAN• Dynamically assign resources such as printers

by location and multiple group dependencies

Layered OS settings• Supports heterogeneous Windows OS and

experiences (W2K, XP, Vista, TS, Server 2003, 2008)

• Supports forward and backward compatibility of application settings

Documentation / Compliance • Document configurations in PDF reports


Layered Personalization (user configuration)Benefits

Delivers settings specific to user • Provision desktop settings instantly• Manage settings after roll-out• Manage data properly with mapped drives, etc.

Delivers setting specific to desktop • Ease end-user pain of configuring desktop• Reduce Help-desk calls for configuration• Eliminate need to visit physical desktops

Layered OS settings• Supports heterogeneous Windows OS and

experiences• Enables further configuration• Enables non-persistent desktops to be customized

for the session

Documentation • Addresses policy compliance• Provides for stability in staff changes

Service Level Assurance – Stratusphere UX

Service Level AssuranceFeatures and Functionality

UX Rating (User Experience) • Provides intuitive reporting of user experience rating over time

Diagnostics • Identifies issues by correlating data and aggregating results

• Alerts proper teams to manage issue (network, hypervisor, SAN/storage, or desktop

Drill down to granular details and reporting

• Provides user performance reporting by user or group

• Provides hardware/software performance reporting by application, machine, or storage device


Service Level AssuranceBenefits

UX Rating (User Experience) • Optimized user experience at a glance• Quantitative SLA support

Diagnostics • Provide support and help desk staff information they need to quickly identify and resolve issues

Drill down to granular details and reporting

• Leave no stone unturned in troubleshooting, leads to quick root/cause analysis

• Save time with ability to pinpoint issues based on fine tuned data selected

Liquidware Labs the Next Generation Desktop/VDI “On-Ramp”

Comprehensive User Experience Management All Centrally Available from the Stratusphere Hub

Stratusphere Fit(Assessment)

• Identify user behavior• Identify application workload• Establish fitness rating

ProfileUnity Pro(Layered Profile Management)

• User settings and data migration (block level sync) • Profile management (speed, size, compliance)• OS portability (Win2K, TS, XP, Vista, Win7)

ProfileUnity Pro(Layered Personalization)

• Layered settings (applied per OS, IP, other Policy)• Delivers settings specific to user• Delivers setting specific to desktop

Stratusphere UX(Service Level Assurance)

• UX Rating (User Experience)• Diagnostics (reduce TCO in complex infrastructure)• Drill down to granular details, reporting and

alerting

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