PowerFuse adds migration path to desktop manager | ZDNet
Summary
The update is designed to decouple users desktop settings from the underlying operating system and provide an automated process for IT departments to manage clients workspaces. This means IT departments that want to make changes do not need to wait until a desktop refresh, which would be the usual way of avoiding major disruption to end users. Instead, the new module can gather information about users personalised environments — such as drive mappings, printer settings, and the desktops appearance — and apply them to the centrally managed model. This meant that organisations often used to wait for other changes before implementing PowerFuse," said RES Software marketing vice president Ron Grevink. In the management of end-user profiles, RES Software competes mainly with AppSense, although other companies provide similar functionality and either greater or lesser degrees of automation, including triCerat, ScriptLogic and ManagedProfile.