Apptimized: Application Packaging and Virtualization Services for World-Leading Brands
Helping a global service provider increase coverage of its service offerings with competitive pricing for application packaging.
Business Challenge
In 2005, Apptimized approached Infopulse, now part of Tietoevry Create, with the need to set up an application packaging factory at our premises. The client’s aim was to have a remote development center that could help reduce the cost per package and, thus, provide better pricing conditions for the end customers combined with a high quality of service. Receiving access to big European customers, Apptimized managed to create a wide coverage of services in CEE and the UK.
Solution
A quick takeover of the initial knowledge (up to 4 knowledge transfer sessions) followed by setting up a team of 7 application packaging engineers. The value produced by the joint forces of both Aptimized (delivery management) and ours (production) resulted in the possibility of offering competitive pricing conditions to European customers.
Territorially, the application packaging factory is located in Zhytomyr, the biggest regional office in Ukraine, which helps us maintain high-quality standards and manage sufficient profitability at the same time.
Types of services:
- Creation of unattended software installations, including handling standard settings and licensing
- Installation verification and correction of errors in original installations: Excessive privileges, search for updates
- Prepare installations for deployment: Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft App-V
- Application conflict management, including automatic software repairing
Technologies & Tools
- Enteo NetInstall
- Microsoft SCCM
- VMware Horizon
- App-V
Business Value
- Apptimized has significantly increased its capacities and is now able to deliver an average of over 10,000 application packages every year
- Reduction of costs and schedules of software deployment and configuration, especially on large number of workstations
- Reduction of maintenance costs due to decreased number of user requests and self-repair features
- Reduction of upgrade costs
- Establishing long-term relationships with end-customers due to the high-quality trusted delivery
- Getting assistance of our experts in setting up an RDC in Vietnam.
For Apptimized as a company, the move to Ukraine was a move to a completely new horizon. And to make it clear from the beginning, it was definitely a good one! After carefully evaluating the pros and cons, we decided to start building the first team in cooperation with Infopulse (now part of Tietoevry Create) in Ukraine and hired 7 trainees in September 2005. Since then, our team has grown up to 50 packaging engineers. We believe that not only the strong technical skills but especially the attitude and the mindset of our employees in Ukraine have contributed to this success.
- Andreas Sternberg, Managing Director, Apptimized