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DHS Informatisering together with Scense has a recipe for successful VMware View implementations

DHS Informatisering, a leading IT services provider of virtualization infrastructure solutions and Scense, the technology leader in Workspace Management solutions have partnered to successfully market and implement VMware View solutions. This partnership has already resulted in big wins for the companies in 2011 including government organizations and enterprises. Amongst these customers are multiple governmental municipalities including the safety house of the ’s-Hertogenbosch region, the ‘s-Hertogenbosch City Library, the National Maritime Museum as well as the construction firm Van der Heijden. The projects represented a wide range of legacy environments including a mix of TS\Citrix and physical desktops. All environments were successfully migrated to flexible, manageable and reliable VMware View and Scense environments, some including Ultra-Thin Client monitors from Samsung and/or LG.

Sander van der Post, Sales Manager within DHS explains: “Our customers all understand the benefits of a VMware View environment with floating desktops. They want to be able to offer their end users the ability to access functional and personal desktops from any location in a reliable and safe manner. We are known as one off the IT partners offering the knowledge and the solutions to implement such an environment successfully. We used Scense Workspace Management in our VMware View offerings, to complement the benefits of desktop virtualization environments.”

“Our customers need personal desktops”, van der Post continues. “In the past this could only be offered by using persistent desktops, resulting in huge storage costs and management nightmares”. “Today we use Scense Workspace Management to transform non persistent desktops into functional, personalized floating desktops. We are now able to offer the best user experience to our customers in combination with low storage requirements and low complexity. And because Scense reaches outside the virtual desktop environment, we are able to offer this experience with all devices: virtual and physical, even on an employee owned laptop or home-pc”

Anne Klop, IT manager within the library of the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch explains: “We expected a challenging migration because of the fact that we needed to support a mixed environment with virtual and physical desktops and had limited resources and storage available for this purpose. Next to that, we needed a solution to replace Novell Zenworks. DHS and Scense have shown to be able to successfully address all these challenges. Today, we are able to offer our end users a functional and personal desktop on both virtual and physical clients. With Scense, even the toughest applications are now delivered and configured with ease. We don’t have a very large IT staff available, but are still able to manage our desktop and application environment smoothly.”

Willem van Enter, regional Director Benelux within VMware, adds: "VMware is dedicated to simplify IT manageability and control, while providing a high fidelity desktop virtualization experience. Through our collaboration with partners like DHS and Scense, who contribute with specific experience and knowledge, customers are able to benefit fully from flexible, manageable and reliable VMware View environments."

About DHS Informatisering

DHS Informatisering since 1984 has grown to become a specialized provider of infrastructure projects. DHS has a focus on EMC storage projects (including businesses like back-up, restore and recovery), server and desktop virtualization with VMware products, but also in management and administration of these environments. Many customers, located in all parts of the Netherlands, are using solutions implemented by DHS. Most customers are active in of the 4 focus areas, which are Healthcare, Government, Education or Small/Medium Businesses. Important to DHS and its employees is that there is a focus on the customer and its questions. Next to that, DHS will always try to establish and maintain a long term relationship. Corporate Social Responsibility is integrated in daily business operations and interaction with all stakeholders.

About Scense

Scense is the technology leader in Next Generation Workspace Management delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands satisfied users worldwide. By keeping the end user workspace and applications independent of the underlying operating system, Scense transforms expensive, mixed and distributed desktop environments into cost-effective, manageable and transparent infrastructures. With Scense, end-users are empowered, but ultimate control remains firmly in the hands of the CIO.

Scense, the fastest growing provider of user workspace management solutions, today announced the general availability of Scense Live Profiles. 

Because of the increasing impact of trends like desktop virtualization, application virtualization, Windows 7 migrations and the consumerization of IT, IT departments today are struggling to provide their end users with a consistent and reliable user experience. Traditional solutions like Microsoft’s roaming profiles and existing profile virtualization solutions have proven to be insufficient in delivering Windows user profiles with application settings and data across all available platforms. Because of that, Scense has shipped Scense Live Profiles.

“We needed to solve this challenge for our customers with an approach they expect from a vendor like Scense: innovative, easy to use and reliable”, Hessel Wellema, product manager within Scense explains. “We have looked at available solutions in the market and decided to implement a solution combining the benefits of profile streaming solutions and profile segmentation solutions, while solving the related drawbacks”. Hessel continues: “The result is a solution that runs out of the box, does not need any preparations before being used but is still manageable and customizable to the needs of the IT department.”

A select number of Scense customers is already experiencing the benefits of Scense Live Profiles today. Before implementing Scense Live Profiles, one of them, the IJsselland hospital was struggling to provide application access to medical staff on their iPads. Menno van den Heuvel of IJsselland explains: “Our medical doctors need to be able to access personalized medical applications and data fast and in a reliable manner. Settings and data should be available instantly.” Menno continues: “Because of Scense Live Profiles, our medical staff doesn’t have to wait anymore for personal settings to be available and because of the transparency of this solution, they are able to access medical applications on any device: even on their iPads.”

Scense partners are eager to strengthen their solution portfolios with Scense Live Profiles:

Michael Baars, Technology Officer within CIS: ‘As an IT infrastructure Provider, we believe that the duration of login process makes a difference. Besides that, hard-to-configure profile tools are no longer accepted. When application settings are changed, they need to be in effect right away without any reboot or re-login. By offering Scense Live Profiles to our customers, we offer users a roaming profile experience and instant functionality in the best performing manner”

Edwin Friesen, Solution Specialist at Ictivity adds: "Information Technology is changing rapidly from a technical oriented to a more business-driven solution in which the end-user experience is the most important focus for a successful implementation. Scense Live Profiles works immediately without configuration and provides optimal performance. These solutions help us to completely unburden complex IT issues."

About Scense Live Profiles

Scense Live Profiles is a fire and forget solution for user profile virtualization. Workspace and application related user settings are separately and centrally stored but transparently available regardless of the version of the Microsoft Windows operating system and accessible throughout the entire landscape of physical and virtual desktops, laptops, terminal server sessions and unmanaged PC’s. Scense Live Profiles will deliver consistent and familiar behavior across all types of applications, natively installed, streamed or virtualized, across all desktop types and across all Windows versions. Scense Live Profiles is also network independent. When Internet is available, Scense Live Profiles is available. 

Scense Live profiles will be shipped as part of Scense 7.6. Release notes of Scense 7.6 can be found here

About Scense 

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands satisfied users worldwide. By keeping the end user workspace and applications independent of the underlying Operating System, Scense transforms expensive, mixed and distributed desktop environments into cost-effective, manageable and transparent infrastructures. With Scense, end-users are empowered, but ultimate control remains firmly in thehands of the CIO.

Scense, the fastest growing provider of User Workspace Management software, has appointed Marcel Mayer (46) as Director Channel Sales. Mayer worked at Tech Data Azlan (the former CDG Europe BV), a company which has shown impressive growth figures over the last ten years. Mayer was employed since 2000 at CDG as Corporate Account Manager, PreSales Consultant and Sales Manager. As PreSales Consultant he was leading the Application Virtualisation of Softricity in the Benelux (known since 2006 as the App-V solution of Microsoft). Before CDG he was ten year active in the reseller channel as Account Manager. Mayer booked successes both in the reseller channel and with a distributor. “I therefore know what the requirements are from the end-user and I am familiar with the wishes of resellers. My preference is to position innovative software in the ICT market,” says Mayer.
Koen Bouwers, CEO of Scense, is pleased that Marcel Mayer is joining the team. “His twenty year experience in channels is very valuable to us. He is capable of supporting the resellers in their sales cycles. This appointment also shows Scense’s commitment to our channel strategy.”

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

Quicker and simpler with less investments and no lock-in.

Scense, a leading provider of Workspace Management software, introduces Scense Migration Toolkit for Operating System migrations, including Windows 7. The Scense software delivers a highly automated process which, depending on customer choices, results in a single, cost-effective, manageable and transparent desktop infrastructure. The migration toolkit will help companies deal with the majority of the manual tasks and associated challenges that have to be carried out when migrating to a new operating system, especially Windows 7.

“Most businesses have not yet migrated to Windows 7. It is expected though that almost all companies and enterprises will deploy it in 2011 and 2012,” says Hessel Wellema, VP Product Management of Scense. “The decision is forced by hardware refresh cycles, new end user management functionality or compatibility issues. Besides, Microsoft will stop the support of Windows XP in 2014. Research from Gartner shows that migrating to Windows 7 is a costly process because of many manual tasks that have to be carried out. On top of this there is hardly any room for errors or productivity loss. IT therefore has to look for new ways to address all the issues.”

Jos Hoogers, Managing Director of ICT services partner Arteq, says about the tooling: “This is good news for many of our customers. If we use the Scense Migration Toolkit to migrate their current Windows Desktop environment to Windows 7 many manual tasks and controls are automated. And the best thing is that after the migration my customers have the choice whether or not they want to continue with Scense and implement the full-blown Management Solution. So, unlike other solutions in this market, using the Scense Migration Toolkit for a Windows migration project, does not have to lead to a vendor lock-in.”

The full Scense solution offers IT managers the level of control they need while at the same time offering end-users the flexibility and efficiency they request – they can work at any time, in any location, independent of the infrastructure. Scense is also the only company which offers the customer the choice to use the tooling only for the migration path.

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

Peter Cornet and his team were wearing out the soles of their shoes managing the 7,000 endpoint estate to the ROC Mondriaan education institute in The Netherlands. Regular physical on-site interventions, manual imaging and provisioning, and other tasks meant this IT manager was almost overwhelmed by the constantly changing, high maintenance end-users and 450 applications. In response, ROC Mondriaan partnered with Scense B.V., one of the Netherlands’ fastest-growing providers of workspace management solutions. The Scense User Workspace Management solution eliminates complexity within the institute’s environment, by managing and delivering applications and desktops transparently together. The Scense dynamic workspace virtualization solution, which works in conjunction with Symantec™ Endpoint Virtualization Suite, has enabled ROC Mondriaan to re-deploy 15 of the 40 staff previously managing endpoints, reduce the time needed to provision a typical 30-endpoint classroom from four days to a few hours, and provide the 20,000 students and 2,500 staff with fast, easy access to data and applications. It’s also secure, compliance, and highly cost effective. So Cornet’s team now have time spare to buy new shoes.

Download the case study of Mondriaan

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

First technical partner meeting Scense well attended

Scense, the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management software, plans to market its products in The Netherlands via a number of partners. To kick start this initiative, Scense organised last week a meeting for Consultative Selling Resellers, Consultancy companies and well-respected self-employed professionals. These partners will help to sell Scense’s vision to their customers and to advise and implement the Scense solutions. More than fifty people attended the session, which concluded with a lively discussion with many questions. Marcel Mayer, Partner Sales Manager of Scense, says: “Partners are crucial for our sales strategy. They are very influential when companies are deciding about which solutions and products to use in a migration project and in Managed Workspace environments.“ Scense expects to accelerate the grow of its sales in the next two years, also thanks to the efforts of its partners. A large majority of companies, almost 90%, will migrate this or next year to Windows 7. The Scense Migration Toolkit for Windows 7, which eliminates many costly investments, was one of the key products demonstrated in the meeting.

Data centre availability not necessary for Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) concept

VP Product Management, Hessel Wellema, gave an overview of the development and improvements of the Scense solutions during the last decade. He also explained why they are unique: Dynamic Application Control gives access to the required applications and related IT resources and distributes them to the users. Scense guarantees that the applications are deployed without any conflicts, un-attended and that they are fully functional. Next to this, Scence’s products are completely aware of their context and users can use their own private computer for business use. “We are the only company enabling BYOC without an investment in a back end system. Companies do not have to set up an expensive data centre if they want to use the Scense solutions.” Wellema: “On top of this, if companies use a different solution, the IT departments have to exchange the Windows system on the computer of a user by a hypervisor based system. We, on the other hand, only install an agent on the user’s computer, which immediately gives him access to all business applications, printers and other IT resources.” He mentioned that Scense also integrates with virtual applications and that the Scense’s Session Control offers IT managers the possibility to intervene during the use of virtual applications. “Many customers also prefer to re-package, which is a big-ticket hobby. They want to ensure that applications are automatically installed and configured and they want to avoid application conflicts. However, you really do not need to re-package if you use our software. This will save you tons of money per year” Pre-sales Manager Bart van Winden demonstrated how the software distribution is handled by Scense Easy Delivery. This tool analyses MSI’s of virtual applications and prepares them for distribution. After the implementation of Easy Delivery, the user immediately has access to his software, without the need to logon again.

Unique: migration to Windows 7 without vendor lock-in

Gartner research shows that 46% of companies have plans to migrate this year to Windows 7 and another 42% has planned this for 2012. Scense prepares for this by offering the Scense Migration Toolkit. Bart van Winden showed in a comprehensible demonstration how the Toolkit works and which software needs to be downloaded from the Scense site in order to start with it. He also showed that customers are not forced to continue to work with Scense after the migration. To conclude, partners and other interested parties were urged to try the software. Marcel Mayer says: “Last week several respected consultancy partners and resellers reacted enthusiastically. It is now up to use to inform the end-users.”

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

ITHEC ICT and Scense announce today that they jointly will enter the market. ITHEC ICT is a well-known player in the area of virtualization and storage and Scense is the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management Software. The background of the co-operation is that ICT service customers are becoming increasingly critical about the quality and the added value of products and services. ITHEC ICT delivered added value during the last decade by implementing high quality innovative technological solutions.

ITHEC ICT will get an ever higher profile with Managing Director Danny Velthuijzen on board. He says: “The ICT market is maturing, and a balance is being sought between functionality and flexibility on the one hand and costs and risks at the other hand. The user Workspace Management solution from Scense deals with both issues. End-users profit from in-depth functionality and flexibility, while the management stays in the hands of the IT manager. This ensures that costs and risks do not spin out of control.” Ed Crayé, founder and director of ITHEC ICT, explains: “The Scense solutions are a unique addition to our portfolio, especially in the higher small and medium enterprise segment of the market.” Partner Sales Manager of Scense, Marcel Mayer, adds: “I am pleased that Danny Velthuijzen started at ITHEC. I know him for quite a while and he always delivers on his promises. The present market for Workspace Management Software is growing and Scense is looking for partners. We want to be successful and share the success with these partners. In short, our product is good, ITHEC has the dedication needed and the market is ready.”

About ITHEC ICT

ITHEC ICT offers three services to the market: the company supplies specialized high quality services and products, it acts as a partner to research possible implementations of (total) solutions) and it offers to take care of the complete ICT management. To realize this, ITHEC co-operates with well-known suppliers such as Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Dell and Scense.

For more information: ITHEC ICT, T 030 - 2674975 | F 030 2674976, info@ithec.nl or www.ithec.nl.

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

Scense, the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management Software, is entering the UK market in partnership with UK distributor TDIST. Together with its resellers, TDIST is promoting the benefits of virtualization to help cut IT costs. Stewart Constantine, Sales Director at TDIST, says about the partnership: “Scense is the only User Workspace Management vendor which is offering end-users the chance to use their own computer on their school’s or company’s networks. I like the flexibility of their solutions and the fact that there is no need to individually license all users. The IT manager keeps control over who gets access to which applications, while at the same time empowering the end-users.” TDIST sees opportunities for the Scense solutions in the UK market place and is closely cooperating with resellers targeting the education market. “There are many possible customers for the software, especially in the VM space,” adds Constantine.

Scene 7.5 - Optimizing Dynamic Applications

Scense released earlier in the year Scense 7.5, which complements ThinApp and VMware View implementations. Scense 7.5 speeds up the adoption of desktop and application virtualization. The release addresses some of the major hurdles which hamper IT managers when they face starting a VMware View or ThinApp project. “Our philosophies are complementary,” comments Koen Bouwers, CEO of Scense. “TDIST has a lot of experience and knowledge of the health, government and educational sectors in Britain. They will be instrumental in introducing the Scense Migration Toolkit for Windows 7. The software delivers a highly automated process which, depending on customer choices, results in a single, cost-effective, manageable and transparent desktop infrastructure. The migration toolkit will help companies deal with the majority of the manual tasks and associated challenges that have to be carried out when migrating to Windows 7.” According to industry analysts estimates, most businesses have not yet migrated to Windows 7. It is expected though that almost all schools and enterprises will deploy it in 2011 and 2012.

About TDIST

TDIST was formed at the beginning of 2006, recognizing the need for distributors who understand and embrace the values and ethos of their manufacturers and who are dedicated to provide the same level of focus in developing and supporting an effective and sustainable reseller channel. TDIST has an established network of resellers throughout UK and Europe.

For more information about TDIST: www.tdist.com or call +44 845 075 5560. TDIST Media Contact: Stewart Constantine (Sales Director).

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

ICT service provider Pyx-IT formed a Premium Partnership with Scense, the fastest growing provider of workspace management solutions. The Scense Workspace Management Suite transforms expensive, complex desktop environments into a single, cost-effective, manageable infrastructure, by keeping the end user workspace and applications independent of the underlying Operating System.

Remon Harmelwaard, Managing Director of Pyx-IT: “We have come to know Scense as a reliable and flexible organization with a good product portfolio. The products deliver exactly what they are supposed to do – nothing more and nothing less. This ensures that our customers save time on the implementation, the training and the management of the IT infrastructure. Besides, the price-quality ratio is very good.“ "Pyx-IT, already experienced with Scense WorkSpace Management solutions, is now officially signed up as a Premium Partner in the region Kennemerland. They are a welcome expansion of our distributor network in the regions North- and South-Holland. Pyx-IT has solid knowledge of Software Asset Management and can combine this with our Migration Toolkit and Workspace Management Solution. A complete solution for the many dynamic application issues,” adds Marcel Mayer, Partner Sales Manager of Scense.

About Pyx-IT

Pyx-IT is a dynamic company of professionals with lots of experience and expertise in IT. The company offers its customers competent and independent advice about various IT issues. This can be complex strategic questions but also daily problems such as licenses management. The company is ambitious and selects its staff based on their knowledge, experience and drive. Professionals need to have a pro-active and customer oriented attitude.

For more information about Pyx-IT: www.pyx-it.nl or call: +31 252 245070. Pyx-IT Media Contact: Remon Harmelwaard.

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about scense contact us.

Scense, the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management, appointed Avantage in Capelle a/d IJssel as Premium Partner for the Netherlands. Avantage offers her customers a „Price per Desktop" solution in which the Scense solution plays a critical role. Avantage sees Scense as a valuable partner to enable their „Price per Desktop" solution for end-users and at the same time give the CIO more central management control.

Frank Overhand, Commercial Director of Avantage: "Scense is developing rapidly towards the a major player in the "Managed Workspace" market. Especially their solution around the Bring Your Own Computer Concept (BYOC), enables us to powerfully market our "Price per Desktop" solution to the Dutch market. We also believe that as a Scense Premium Partner we can differentiate ourselves with the to-be-released Scense Live Profiles solution."

About Avantage

In 21 years Avantage created an excellent name and position in the IT market in the Netherlands. With her 70 employees Avantage offers high-quality services, focused on Business Consultancy, Network Implementation, Network Services and Interactive Media (CMS, web design and web development). Since the formation, Avantage focuses on continuity and long term partnerships with customer. They deliver IT solutions with a demonstrable positive effect on the efficiency and effectiveness of the primary company processes. Avantage works with premium vendors like Scense, Microsoft, Novell, Citix, Quest, VMWare, HP, F-Secure and i365.

For more information about Avantage: www.avantage.nl or call +31 10 2351235, media contact Frank Overhand.

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense's unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

For more information about Scense, please contact us.

Ictivity Training, onderdeel van De Ictivity Groep, heeft voor Scense, leverancier van next-generation workspace management oplossingen, een Praktisch Beheer training ontwikkelt.

Door de snelle groei van de Scense User Workspace Management oplossing is er een toenemende vraag ontstaan naar een praktijkgerichte training. Scense en Ictivity hebben hiervoor de handen ineen geslagen en komen nu samen met een Scense Praktisch Beheer training.

Toine van Eijk, Directeur Ictivity Trainingen BV: “Door de intense samenwerking met Scense zijn we erin geslaagd om deze Praktisch Beheer training te ontwikkelen. De Scense Workspace Management Praktisch Beheer training is een klassikale training, afgestemd op het dagelijks beheer, aangevuld met best practice voorbeelden en hands-on praktijk opdrachten. Door een uitgekiende balans tussen theorie en praktijk kan de deelnemer zijn verkregen vaardigheden direct toepassen in de dagelijkse praktijk.”

Marcel Mayer, Partner Sales Manager Scense: ““Scense heeft in 2011 een behoorlijk aantal stappen gemaakt in de Nederlandse markt. Naast het optekenen van een 15-tal partners met de juiste focus zijn ook tientallen klanten gemigreerd naar onze User Workspace Management oplossing. Met dit groeiend aantal partners en eindgebruikers is ook de vraag naar een (1 daagse) hands-on training gestegen. Wij zijn verheugd dat deze in samenwerking met Ictivity Training er nu is gekomen. Scense is er blij mee, om deze workshop via onze partners aan onze huidige en nieuwe eindgebruikers aan te kunnen bieden.”

Ga voor data en inschrijvingen voor deze Praktisch Beheer Training direct naar de training website!

Ictivity Trainingen B.V. als onderdeel van De Ictivity Groep verzorgt als “Kennishuis” opleidingen voor IT professionals (van manager tot eindgebruiker) met een team professionele trainers. Deze (maatwerk)trainingen zijn praktijkgericht en worden verzorgd door heel Nederland op eigen trainingslocaties én bij de klant in-huis.

Scense, gevestigd in Rotterdam, is  leider op het gebied van Next-Generation Workspace Management oplossingen door het leveren van dynamische applicaties in gepersonalizeerde werkplekken naar vele tevreden gebruikers wereldwijd. De unieke en gepatenteerde technologie van Scense configureert dynamicsh Windows applicaties en levert deze – in real-time – met de benodigde persoonlijke instellingen naar zowel fysieke als virtuele werkplekken. Met Scense hebben gebruikers legio mogelijkheden, zonder dat IT het overzicht en de grip verliest.

Meer informatie: contact Marcel Mayer.

Scense, de leider op het gebied van User Workspace Management, heeft het Deltion College op weg geholpen naar het nieuwe leren en tegelijkertijd de Windows 7 migratie vereenvoudigd en versneld. Scense User Workspace Management heeft niet alleen gezorgd voor een consistente gebruikerservaring maar ook voor een aaanzienlijke besparing in de beheerskosten en een aanzienlijke reductie van de hoeveelheid telefoontjes naar de helpdesk.

In 2010 is de implementatie van de Scense software gestart en kort daarna is het,  naar volle tevredenheid, in gebruik genomen. Het Deltion College moest zo’n 3.000 PC’s voorzien van applicaties  die door ongeveer 17.000 studenten en medewerkers gebruikt worden. Ook werden zij geconfronteerd met het feit, dat steeds meer studenten en medewerkers hun eigen laptop meenamen en ook steeds meer mensen buiten de deur gingen werken. Daarnaast werd er rekening mee gehouden dat de Windows 7 migratie ook op korte termijn diende te geschieden.

Robert Vos, Manager Automatisering en Informatisering bij Deltion College legt uit waarom zij erg tevreden zijn met Scense User Workspace Management. “ Wij hebben 18 doelstellingen geformuleerd voor ICT tot 2013, waarvan er zeven door ons zelf gedaan worden. De overige elf heeft Scense nu reeds in 2011 volledig ingevuld. Sinds die tijd krijgt de servicedesk tot 50% minder telefoontjes. Dit betekent dat een groot deel van onze medewerkers ander werk kunnen doen. Het voordeel voor de gebruikers is dat ze niet merken dat er een extra software beheerslaag tussen zit. Zij krijgen de juiste applicaties en die zien er net zo uit zoals thuis op een Windows-machine.” Ook de Scense Migration Toolkit heeft een waardevolle bijdrage geleverd. “ Door deze toolkit is de migratie veel gemakkelijker en de toolkit neemt de vele handmatige taken over die normaal nodig zijn bij een migratie naar Windows 7.”, aldus Rob Vos.

Rob sluit af met te stellen dat hij in de markt hoort dat andere ROC’s overgaan naar Scense. “Ik heb er absoluut geen spijt van dat we zijn overgestapt: door Scense zijn we efficiënter, effectiever en we hebben meer gebruikers functionaliteits-wensen kunnen invullen. Onze flexibiliteit en beschikbaarheid is toegenomen en kan ik samen met mijn collega’s meer waarde leveren.”

Over Deltion College

Het Deltion College heeft ongeveer 17.000 leerlingen, die zo’n 450 verschillende MBO-opleidingen volgen. Daarnaast is het Deltion opleidingscentrum voor volwassenenonderwijs. Op het college werken 1.200 mensen in drie verschillende onderwijssectoren. Rob Vos stond voor de uitdaging om alle medewerkers, studenten en avondcursisten, in totaal zo’n 17.000, van IT te voorzien met een klein team van rond de 20 medewerkers.

Over Scense

Scense, gevestigd in Rotterdam, is  leider op het gebied van  Next-Generation Workspace Management oplossingen door het leveren van dynamische applicaties in gepersonalizeerde werkplekken naar vele tevreden gebruikers wereldwijd. De unieke en gepatenteerde technologie van Scense configureert dynamicsh Windows applicaties en levert deze – in real-time – met de benodigde persoonlijke instellingen naar zowel fysieke als virtuele werkplekken. Met Scense hebben gebruikers legio mogelijkheden, zonder dat IT het overzicht en de grip verliest.

Meer informatie: contact Hessel Wellema.

ICT service provider Ictivity started a Consultancy Partnership with Scense, the fastest growing provider of workspace management solutions. The Scense Workspace Management Suite transforms expensive, mixed and distributed desktop environments into a single, cost-effective, manageable and transparent infrastructure, by keeping the end user workspace and applications independent of the underlying Operating System. The partnership gives Ictivity the opportunity to be one of the first companies in The Netherlands to advise, implement and manage Scense products.
Geert Visser, CEO Ictivity, explains why he has chosen for this partnership: "Ictivity likes to embrace new products in an early stage in order to be able to really bring our philosophy - knowledge house and innovation - to our customers. The user work environment develops towards a ‘bring your own device’ model. Scense Workspace Management software adapts to this development. We are looking forward to a fruitful co-operation." Marcel Mayer, Partner Sales Manager Scense: “I contacted Ictivity at the beginning of the year since I wished to connect with them as a Consultancy Partner. They are uniquely qualified to judge products such as ours, which gives them a competitive edge, both in new and existing projects. They have an impressive understanding of the new way of working, which the ‘bring your own computer’ model is enabling.”

About Ictivity Group

Ictivity is an independent Dutch ICT service provider with offices in Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Over 100 experienced employees guarantee high quality ICT advice and implementation services in the area of infrastructure solutions (based on both open and closed sources). Their core activities are: consultancy, staffing, training, managed services, 4IP and outdare. Ictivity’s clients: government, semi-government and professional businesses. Ictivity mainly works for larger organizations with their own ICT department, both in house and on distance. Ictivity does not sell any hard or software and can therefore guarantee its independency as an ICT service company.

For more information:Tanya Weidema (Marketing & Communications Manager) – T +31 88 – 428 4848, email: tanya.weidema@ictivity.nl. www.ictivity.nl

About Scense

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

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