SaaS Edition
SaaS presents challenges to providers of Windows applications. Application Jukebox solves them.
Whether you’re a software vendor, distributor, hosting provider, or educational institution, your organization needs to provide Windows software to users—often customers, clients, students, or partners. And that often means dealing with all the issues of traditional boxed software: downloads, installation, activation, license enforcement, patching, upgrading, and support.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solves many of these issues. But that means you have to convert your Windows applications to be delivered on a web browser, which often takes months of re-engineering and coding—and if you have a heavyweight, complex Windows app, the resulting web app is often a dumbed-down, feature-poor version.
Application Jukebox: Cloud Virtualization for Windows applications
With Application Jukebox, you can move your Windows apps to the Cloud and deliver them in a SaaS model without re-engineering—and without dumbing down your apps. Here’s how Application Jukebox provides the technology to utilize SaaS to provide Windows apps.
- Application Jukebox Studio converts your Windows application into a Cloud-ready application package.
- Application Jukebox Server publishes that package to a server, which can live in any type of Cloud (public, private, or hybrid) or any type of server that you make available to your users.
- Your users simply download Application Jukebox Player—about the size of an IM client—then launch your app from your portal to stream your Windows app to their PC. The Windows applications appear in the user’s Start menu and on their desktop—just like a natively installed application.
Gain complete control over licensing, usage, reporting, upgrades, and revocation.
With Application Jukebox, you can:
- Rent your apps for a month, a quarter, a year, or a custom time frame
- View who’s using your apps and who isn’t
- Revoke usage if a customer doesn’t pay
- Allow your app to be used online or offline
- Stream upgrades and patches without bothering your users
- Eliminate compatibility, stability, and performance issues
Application Jukebox technology is already assisting thousands of customers successfully, and it excels in heavyweight, graphics- and resource-intensive applications. Read more about how it works in our SaaS datasheet.
Run streamed Windows applications at native speeds
Application Jukebox uses the processor on each user's PC to run the streamed apps, so performance is at native speeds. Web applications, in contrast, run the apps on a centralized server, so there's a significant performance hit, causing customers to continually pause their work waiting on dragging apps. Application Jukebox runs SaaS-based, CPU-intensive applications at native speeds where handling resource-intensive applications like CAD/CAM and Photoshop apps is just business as usual.
Who is this application virtualization solution perfect for?
- ISPs providing application services: Application Jukebox enables Internet service providers (ISPs), application service providers (ASPs) and other content providers to deliver metered and managed applications for sale, rent, subscription, or "try before you buy" offerings. It also allows these businesses to incorporate their own brand into their own application suite deployment/application store.
- Hosting and managed service providers: Application Jukebox allows service providers to reinvent their business models and create innovative pricing and service level agreements (SLAs) for their SaaS portfolios.
- Software vendors and distributors: Application Jukebox allows for Cloud delivery of your existing Windows applications with no re-engineering.
- Educational institutions: Application Jukebox is perfect for delivering Windows apps to students, faculty, and computer labs. It’s the best way to deliver apps you do control to PCs that you don’t control.
