Case Study: Kingston University London boosts app access and cuts deployment time with Software2 AppsAnywhere

The Kingston University campus is spread across 4 locations around the town of Kingston upon Thames

Kingston University London faced a significant challenge in providing its students and staff, particularly within its large merged Science, Engineering and Computing faculty, with flexible access to over 850 specialized software applications. The university's existing application deployment methods were time-consuming, limiting the availability of crucial STEM apps to specific labs and preventing 24/7 access. They needed a solution to make these resources widely available across all campus locations while reducing deployment times and costs. This led them to partner with vendor Software2 and implement their product, AppsAnywhere.

Software2's AppsAnywhere solution dramatically increased the percentage of virtualized applications from 20% to 96%, enabling students to access their required software from any location, 24/7. The results were highly measurable: machine deployment time was slashed from over 10 hours to just 45 minutes, access to specialist applications for students increased by 300%, and the university achieved hardware savings of £750-900 per machine. Software2's technology provided Kingston with a flexible, cost-effective solution that greatly enhanced the student experience and operational efficiency.

Kingston University London