Introduction to Immidio AppScriber
AppScriber is a new product from Immidio that does Application (Self) Provisioning for application deployment products that have a very on-demand nature, like Microsoft App-V or Citrix XenApp, with their published and/or streaming applications. Actually this product will work with any deployment solution that deploys applications based on the user’s group membership.
Version 1.0 of the product will only have the Self Provisioning functionality and works very simple. It consists of a website with two interfaces, a user interface and a application manager interface.
An AppScriber Application Manager can add applications to the portal after which users can “activate” those applications through the AppScriber User interface. So you should only use this for the applications where all users already are allowed to use these, but if you make them all available to them it would be to much. Like a very large start menu with to many applications.
Their is all sort of features in the product like:
- Extensive logging to see what user and/or manager changed what
- See the application lists from the user’s point of view
- Display customized Activate and De-activate messages
- See what users activated a certain application
- De-activate applications for certain users
But a demo says more than a thousand words so I made 2 videos of an App-V 4.5 scenario:
- VIDEO: From an Application Manager point of view I add an application
- VIDEO: From a desktop user that has access to the AppScriber portal. The activation and de-activation of applications
Besides this functionality, in version 2.0 of the product a piece of workflow will be introduced. So besides just adding applications to the portal which everyone can Activate, you can then also add applications that users can Request. Those requests will go to the pre-configured Application Manager (by e-mail), who in their turn can Accept or Reject these Requests.
Immidio AppScriber 1.0 will be available soon. Also with an Express Edition with a limitation of ten applications, so you can test and play around with it.
For more information go to: http://www.immidio.com/
