AppDeploy Live FAQ
The Leading Systems Management Appliance Company Integrates the Leading Destination Community for Systems Management Professionals; Users Save Time and Their Company Money with Combined Solution
On June 25, 2007, KACE, the leading Systems Management Appliances company, announced the acquisition of AppDeploy.com, a revolutionary online community that speeds day-to-day application management tasks for computer systems managers. Also announced was the subsequent launch of AppDeploy Live, the integration of the knowledge-base from AppDeploy.com directly into the user interface for KBOX Systems Management Appliance.
| Q: | Why did KACE acquire AppDeploy.com? |
| A: | With this acquisition, KACE has been able to combine information from the Internet's largest community of application and computer systems managers with data from the global community of KBOX Systems Management Appliances, currently managing several hundred thousand systems around the world. This combined knowledge-base catalogues application management information, techniques, and best-practices for over 100,000 software applications. This information is delivered to KBOX customers in KBOX graphical user interface through AppDeploy Live. |
| Q: | What exactly is AppDeploy Live? |
| A: | AppDeploy Live is a feature of KBOX Systems Management Appliance that builds off the popular AppDeploy.com community. Via the KBOX management console, users can access content from AppDeploy.com. AppDeploy.com boasts over 100,000 monthly visitors and offers a broad knowledge-base continually updated by over 16,000 contributing professionals. This provides computer systems managers easy, accurate and reliable access to data on thousands of applications and processes from experts who have previously met and successfully addressed a wide variety of application challenges. |
| Q: | What is the benefit to KBOX customers? |
| A: | Through AppDeploy Live, KBOX customers have access to AppDeploy.com's broad knowledge-base that can save them time and money. KBOX users can access this powerful information directly from their KBOX management console, eliminating the frustrating search for answers through multiple vendor sites, discussion boards, Google, and technical publications. AppDeploy.com offers computer systems managers the option to freely and easily search for answers and best practices to a range of complex application management issues such as application deployment techniques, configuration settings and transform files.
AppDeploy.com is also available at no charge to the public at www.appdeploy.com |
| Q: | Is there a benefit to non-KBOX customers? |
| A: | AppDeploy.com content is also available at no charge to the public at AppDeploy.com, and will now include the additional application management knowledge gleaned from KBOX managed systems worldwide. Further, as a wholly owned subsidiary of KACE, AppDeploy.com will benefit from the dedicated resources of the KACE organization. |
| Q: | What is the future of AppDeploy.com, now that it has been acquired by KACE? |
| A: | KACE is further advancing the existing AppDeploy.com web site by dedicating resources to continually update and improve the community knowledge-base. KACE will be automatically updating the application library through its global network of KBOX appliances, now managing hundreds of thousands of endpoint computers globally. In addition, present and future KBOX customers now have the ability to leverage AppDeploy Live, providing community expertise contextually within KBOX management console and dramatically saving time on common computer administration tasks.
Together, KACE and AppDeploy.com have raised the bar in terms of easing systems management complexity. Now computer systems managers, whether they use KBOX or not, can quickly, freely, and reliably access information on how to effectively manage endpoint applications. By way of analogy, TiVO revolutionized video recording by marrying an easy-to-use, intuitive solution with comprehensive, context-sensitive programming information. For KBOX users, AppDeploy Live offers the same breadth of benefits to systems management professionals by providing them TiVo-like simplicity and contextual, community-based help so that they can find answers to the tough questions they face everyday. |
