Applicaton Packaging Services
PAV's application packaging service enables businesses to deploy commercial or in-house software applications to include additional parameters, rolled-in software patches/services packages or other software dependencies needed by the application but not present on the target business machines.
A typical business environment can contain 1000's of software applications
Your applications have different uses, varying levels of complexity, licensing and business usage. The amount of time needed to support, patch and configure these applications across an organisation's network estate can drain business resources as it grows. Reducing the operational overhead of this, minimising software license cost, maximising existing software investment and controlling the proliferation of the software estate are all concerns of today’s businesses.
We help deliver time and cost savings
PAV's application packaging & virtualisation services help solve these issues by streamlining and configuring a business's expansive software estate into a managed, documented portfolio of deployable packages.
We have the skills and in-house tools to package or virtualise an organisations software, enabling the business to benefit from reduced management and operational costs as well seeing increases in potential system performance.
Benefits of application packaging
We are application packaging experts and can support IT departments by:
• Evaluating applications to establish the best means of delivery to users
• Reducing software management costs and operational management overhead
• Assisting with Windows 10 migrations
• Overcoming platform or software compatibility issues
• Virtualising or creating MSI/MSIX/App-V/Intune for consistent application delivery
• Enabling delivery of applications via VDI services such as AWS or Azure
• Configuring conditional access and implement policies based on conditions such as user location or
app sensitivity
• Improving application performance
• Providing QA and warrantied applications and peace of mind
virtualise your applications across your desired platforms
You may want to overcome other issues within your business such as platform hardware/software compatibility issues by delivering applications to your users in virtualised or centrally re-hosted instances. We can help you to define and implement the best virtualisation and hosting strategy needed to make the most of your requirements.
Using application virtualisation you can realise further benefits such as:
• Simplifying maintenance - Maintain one version of the application for all your clients and their different devices
• No compatibility issues - Users can utilise any OS and supported hardware without dependency/compatibility issues
• Simpler that implementing virtual desktops - Can be more cost effective and easier to implement
The application layer is the hardest to defend. Software without the most recent update is like an unlocked door for threat actors. They know the openings are there and can just walk in. In 2021, Four in ten businesses reported being a victim of a security breach, this is why one of the UK Government’s Cyber Security recommendations is that you should always apply the latest software updates, within 14 days of an update being published.Automated
AppAffinity helps businesses to mitigate security threats by monitoring for new updates and automatically publishing them to endpoint devices, via your organisation's Microsoft Intune or Endpoint Configuration Manager Solution.
AppAffinity helps businesses to mitigate security threats by monitoring for new updates and automatically publishing them to endpoint devices, via your organisation's Microsoft Intune or Endpoint Configuration Manager Solution.
All updated applications are fully packaged into Intune or Endpoint Configuration Manager compatible formats, with all deployment settings fully configurable by the organisation.
Integrated
Setting up and using AppAffinity couldn’t be easier. Simply link to your existing Intune or Endpoint Configuration Manager service and new application updates are automatically published via the online portal directly into your deployment solution as soon as they are available.
Time Saver
Once you’ve setup AppAffinity, that’s it, no more checking of vendor update pages or creating install and uninstall scripts for deployment, it really is that simple.
AppAffinity Features:
- Compliance - Quickly address vulnerabilities in out-dated application
- Automated - Pre-define schedules, device and deployment settings
- Time saver - Free up internal resource needed to manage updates
- Cloud Based - No requirement for on-premise infrastructure
- Native Integration – Use Microsoft Intune or Endpoint Configuration Manager for deployment