Unisono

Currently the challenges associated with managing the increasingly heterogeneous end-user environments and upgrading operating systems and applications are:

• Reducing the cost, complexity, and pain of desktop provision and management
• Incorporating mergers and acquisitions
• Protecting data, devices, and core systems
• Efficient support for Business continuity & work area recovery
• Compliance with licensing & regulatory requirements
• Enabling secure access from anywhere
• Backing up and restoring desktops
• Working with business partners
• Extending the life of aging hardware

What If?

• What would these challenges look like if you could deploy and manage desktop environments and applications from the data centre rather than at an end-user's computer?
• If you could provide users access to a virtual desktop; or, indeed, to more than one virtual desktop?
• If you could do this with your standard network infrastructure and bandwidth; and, optionally, without affecting your users' level of control over their desktop environments?
  
  

• Boost for overall Windows platform and service efficiency: Unisono reduces overall costs of windows enterprise infrastructure computing by over 50% by automating IMAC processes, centralizing management, administration and resources and removing IT infrastructure from remote offices.
• Improved security. Since all data is highly consolidated and maintained centrally, Unisono minimizes risk, data loss and supports advanced compliance requirements. All communication is based on end-to-end-in SSL encryption. This provides, in combination with two-factor secured authentication, a best in class security model even for demanding industries such as finance, insurance or public services.
• Greater management and control. Unisono Workspace Manager lets you manage the complete portfolio of applications delivered from all virtual desktops and Server Based Computing(SBC), provisioned centrally in the data centre. Additionally, User Self Services and delegated administration allows provisioning any IT resource to new users, departments or offices instantly. Unisono integrates local applications and streamed applications seamlessly, assuring consistency in access and usage forend users across all access scenarios.
• Global Roaming: Enhanced business agility and user flexibility is provided by Unisono? unique capabilities to allow users to seamlessly roam with re-login between any endpoint (i.e. Laptop, Thin-Client-Desktop) inside the enterprise. Workspace Manager automatically detects endpoint dependencies whilst roaming and can pro-actively change configurations as required based on the endpoint configuration. This ideally aligns to branch office scenarios. Users can now securely roam between their corporate environment and non-corporate environment while on travel or for use as part of business continuity.
• Improved agility: With a very high degree of automation for all frequent IMAC (install, add, move, change) processes and request, Unisono significantly reduces overall service cost. Additionally it supports the overall infrastructure consolidation by providing local support teams with a single equivalent service management toolset for their previous technical toolsets.
• Reliable business continuity and disaster recovery. Unisono is built on industry-leading technology and provides customers with its fully resilient, active-active design for full DR coverage.
• Reduces cost for Remote Access by avoiding costly 2-factor authentication services or SSL-VPN Gateways by providing secure remote access from any untrusted device through a browser, including unique support for truly global roaming.
• Windows workstations can be replaced with thin clients, which use considerably less energy. This contributes to your company’s ecological balance sheet – the CO2 emissions can be reduced by up to 80%.

Unisono optimizes the management of desktops and applications over and above industry standards, allowing visionapp customers to significantly reduce the costs of overall Windows infrastructure operations by 50 per cent or greater. At the same time, Unisono allows customers to comply with highest data security and auditing requirements by consolidating and centralizing the entire application delivery architecture, providing users with outstanding flexibility alongside a much tighter control of the overall Windows environment.

Deploying the Unisono solution, visionapp global customers have managed to reduce their combined Windows infrastructure management cost (which typically represents a quarter of overall TCO) well beyond efficiency targets so far set by traditional consolidation or standardization strategies. As a strategic initiative, based on unique experiences from visionapp optimizing clients within environments of more than 200,000 desktops in single enterprises, Unisono delivers the most complete, yet cost effective desktop solution available on the market.

Unisono addresses the complete set of users roles in enterprises, ranging from task to knowledge workers, from traders to developers and engineers, from head office sites with more than 5,000 users to branches in regions in emerging markets with very poor network connectivity. All Unisono users with their unique roles can benefit in any site from a solution that for the first time ever is truly capable of providing them with a highly consistent user experience across all access scenarios, designed to deliver highest security standards in industries such as finance or insurance.

Built on the industry-leading virtualization platform from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware, Unisono is a next generation universal Windows Infrastructure solution that delivers real value utilizing a fully Service Orientated Infrastructure (SOI).

Unisono lets the enterprise automate and manage all IT service requests (so called "IMACs") whilst delivering IT services though visionapps? highly innovative "Dynamic Delivery System (DDS)". With our 3rd generation solutions for end-to-end SOI automation, Unisono delivers successful concepts of Shared Services Platforms, Cloud Computing and Software as a Service as a fully integrated and proven solution into enterprises.

Unisono lets you manage service (applications, requests) and all infrastructure (hardware, OS) independently of each other, wherever they may reside. As a result, Unisono streamlines desktop and application management, reduces costs and increases data security through centralization, resulting in greater end-user flexibility and IT control. Furthermore, Unisono enables customers to extend the value of server & client consolidation and virtualization initiatives.  This solution encompasses not only desktops and the data centre but also applications and the delivery of these environments securely to remote clients, off or online.

Unisono provides users with unified access to all enterprise applications from any device and any location, integration with seamless resources from centralized desktops and locally installed applications

Unisono uses visionapp's market leading "Dynamic Delivery System (DDS)" which for the first time delivers the benefits of a truly Service Orientated Infrastructure into enterprise Windows infrastructure.

Unisono leverages state of the art virtualization technologies for clients & servers to break the bonds between the endpoint device (i.e. desktop computer) and associated OS, applications and hardware.

By encapsulating the desktop OS, applications and user data into isolated layers, the solution enables IT staff to modify, update and deploy each component independently for greater business agility and improved response time. The result is a significantly greater flexible access model that supports trusted as well as unstrusted endpoints, improves security, lowers operating costs and simplifies desktop administration and management.

With the Unisono solution, visionapp for the first time delivers an integrated solution to optimize overall desktop infrastructure in enterprises and the organization.

Unisono covers all relevant areas that should be in scope for enterprise infrastructure consolidation: data centre, server, clients and services. This approach assures completeness in optimizing the solutions and supports outstanding results and guaranteed delivery to targets.

Unisono is currently deployed to over 350,000 IT seats in leading, global organizations. Amongst these, there are the largest UK and German based Citrix implementations with over 200,000 concurrent users. This is our proving for the scalability and suitability for most demanding environments.

Unisono leverages the benefits of leading virtualization platforms from our partners Citrix, Microsoft and VMware to support a complete and comprehensive consolidation of not just clients, but all supporting infrastructure and application services such as file, print, messaging, directory, remote access as well as the automation of all desktop related requests (IMACs — Install, Move, Add, Change).

Using Unisono, IT organizations can extend the benefits of industry-leading virtualization to the desktop. Integrating desktop infrastructure with VMware Infrastructure and provides unified management with a host of features that improve agility, performance, reliability and business continuity, including:

• Secure Shared Services Platform, device independent access to corporate services
• Centralized data management including compliance support for messaging & collaboration
• Dynamic  load balancing for desktop computing resources.
• Automated failover and recovery to maximize desktops uptime.

Desktop and application virtualization breaks the bonds between software, hardware and operating systems, eliminating the need to actually install or manage desktop environments on end user devices. From a central location you can deliver, manage and update all of your Windows desktops and applications in minutes. Unisono makes the testing, provisioning and support of applications and desktops much easier and less costly.