Productivity Platform

Overview

The Sawtel Hosted Virtual Office builds on the solid foundation provided by the application server mode in the Sawtel Hosted Windows Terminal Services. Terminal Server lets you deliver Windows-based applications, or the Windows desktop itself, to virtually any computing device—including those that cannot run Windows.

Terminal Server can enhance enterprise software deployment capabilities for a variety of scenarios that remain difficult to solve using traditional application distribution technologies. When users run an application on Terminal Server, the application execution takes place on the server, and only keyboard, mouse and display information are transmitted over the network. Users see only their own individual sessions, which are managed transparently by the server operating system, and remain independent of any other client session.

The progression from isolated local infrastructure and applications to the virtual office environment mirrors the progression from attendant high capital overhead and continuous support costs of local infrastructure to maximized return on investment [ROI] from low capital overhead and low support costs in the Sawtel Hosted Virtual Office.

Benefits

The Terminal Server component of the Sawtel Virtual Office provides three important benefits:

• Rapid, Centralized Deployment of Applications
  Great for rapidly deploying Windows-based applications to computing devices across an enterprise—especially applications that are frequently updated, infrequently used, or hard to manage. When an application is managed on Terminal Server and not on each device, administrators can be certain that users are running the latest version of the application.
• Low-bandwidth Access to Data
  Terminal Server considerably reduces the amount of network bandwidth required to access data remotely. Using Terminal Server to run an application over bandwidth-constrained connections, such as dial-up or shared WAN links, is very effective for remotely accessing and manipulating large amounts of data because only a screen view of the data is transmitted, rather than the data itself.
• Windows Anywhere
  Terminal Server helps users become more productive by enabling access to current applications on any device—including under-powered hardware and non-Windows desktops. Terminal Server lets you use Windows anywhere. So, you can take advantage of extra processing capabilities from newer, lighter-weight devices such as a Pocket PC.