Nicholas Maloney on Access IT Automation

Is It Time to Converge Application Management With DEX?

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:48:59 +0100

Application packaging and testing is a resource-intensive headache, especially if you are a large organisation with thousands of applications across your IT estate. Therefore, when looking at automation solutions like Access Capture, the focus is largely on the massive resource savings that can be made. And rightly so, as individual tasks that take several hours to complete manually can be done in a few minutes with a solution like Access Capture. Multiply that over thousands of applications, and your application management headaches will become a thing of the past.

New Capture Release Now Features Guacamole Daemon Alternative

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:41:13 +0100

Since the last time we officially published Capture release notes, we have made a lot of other new features, bug fixes, and updates available. This includes our new capability of automatically converting App-V source files to MSIX as well as the ability to launch and load App Volumes containers. We will write up more details on that last one very soon, but today we wanted to definitely tell you about a nifty little feature that will make things easier for a lot of our customers: an option that replaces the use of GUAC (Remote Desktop Gateway/RDP in a browser) in WinTel environments.

New Features: Smoke Testing and Automated Performance Testing

Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

As technology changes at an ever increasing rate, being able to quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively test your applications is fundamental to keeping up with the pace. Depending on your testing strategy, this could include all of your apps or just specific core applications.

Coming Soon: Access Capture Version 3 — What You Need To Know (Part 2)

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

As you might already know, Access Capture V3 will be launched on November 14th, 2019. The new release includes lots of new exciting features and platform improvements. Last week, we walked you through some of them already and today, as promised, I would like to highlight some additional nuggets, in particular:

Coming Soon: Access Capture Version 3 — What You Need To Know (Part 1)

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

I am very excited to share with you that on November 14th, 2019, we are officially launching our new version (V3) of Access Capture, our enterprise application packaging and testing automation solution.

We have added some very exciting features, and there are significant platform changes. I cannot wait to share all the upgrades with you — so I am giving you a two-part preview of the most critical updates.

Technical Requirements Before Implementing Access Capture For App Packaging & Testing Automation

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

One of the biggest concerns enterprise IT teams voice when they see Access Capture, our application packaging and testing automation solution, in action for the first time is the amount of work that needs to be done as a prerequisite.

How To Get Valuable VDI Performance Footprint Metrics Without Additional Workload/Cost

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0100

How To Get Valuable VDI Performance Footprint Metrics Without Additional Workload/Cost

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to know with certainty the performance footprint impact of an application before deploying it into a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)? This way, you could decide whether it is suitable or not based on data rather than gut feel. However, most IT teams do not have this option.

Persistent vs. Non-Persistent VDI

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Virtual desktop technologies are changing the ways companies do business. Instead of having individual on-premises hardware workstations running their resident desktops, planners can use something called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to offer end users the same sort of environment — without the same hardware framework.