London School of Economics is unique in its concentration on teaching and research across the full range of social, political and economic sciences. One of the foremost social science universities in the world, with more than 10,000 students and a history of producing Nobel Prize winners
With more than 10,000 students enrolled at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the task of providing the applications they need would be complicated and time consuming. By using Application Virtualization (App-V) the university could change physical applications into virtual services, enabling simpler management that LSE staff could complete before each new term for incoming new students.
Staff at LSE would often build their course material around specific software, so the university couldn’t deliver upgrades to applications throughout the teaching year. However, students often requested upgrades whenever new versions of software were released. Louise de Villiers, Academic Support Manager at London School of Economics and Political Science, says: “To meet the changing technology needs of our academic community, we wanted to be a bit more flexible in the way we delivered applications, including multiple versions of the same applications delivered to computers.”
LSE decided that application virtualisation would help solve its deployment problems and ORIIUM were brought in to help provide initial application sequencing as well as delivering knowledge transfer that would enable staff at LSE to manage the application process for updating and re- deployment.
Through its engagement with ORIIUM, LSE were able to successfully deploy and operate a new virtualised application environment built
on Microsoft’s App-V solution, enabling flexible application upgrades and modifications to be actioned at any time. Previous issues with modifications causing system crashes and the need to create and manage multiple desktop gold images were dramatically reduced due to App-V’s ability to serve applications independently to the desktop and in isolation to other applications, enabling a significant time and management saving for the university.
Staff were skilled up to enable on-going internal management
Applications can be updated and delivered throughout term
Since implementation, application failure rates have fallen 60%
London School of Economics is unique in its concentration on teaching and research across the full range of social, political and economic sciences. One of the foremost social science universities in the world, with more than 10,000 students and a history of producing Nobel Prize winners
With more than 10,000 students enrolled at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the task of providing the applications they need would be complicated and time consuming. By using Application Virtualization (App-V) the university could change physical applications into virtual services, enabling simpler management that LSE staff could complete before each new term for incoming new students.
Staff at LSE would often build their course material around specific software, so the university couldn’t deliver upgrades to applications throughout the teaching year. However, students often requested upgrades whenever new versions of software were released. Louise de Villiers, Academic Support Manager at London School of Economics and Political Science, says: “To meet the changing technology needs of our academic community, we wanted to be a bit more flexible in the way we delivered applications, including multiple versions of the same applications delivered to computers.”
LSE decided that application virtualisation would help solve its deployment problems and ORIIUM were brought in to help provide initial application sequencing as well as delivering knowledge transfer that would enable staff at LSE to manage the application process for updating and re- deployment.
Through its engagement with ORIIUM, LSE were able to successfully deploy and operate a new virtualised application environment built on Microsoft’s App-V solution, enabling flexible application upgrades and modifications to be actioned at any time. Previous issues with modifications causing system crashes and the need to create and manage multiple desktop gold images were dramatically reduced due to App-V’s ability to serve applications independently to the desktop and in isolation to other applications, enabling a significant time and management saving for the university.
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