This is a guest blog post by Jeff Pitsch, Field CTO, Rimo3.

How can you predict application behavior before deploying virtual workspaces? It used to be that you took a guess, crossed your fingers for good luck, and pushed out applications. Now, there’s a better way.

Migrating from on-premises to Citrix Cloud is in full swing. Due to the worldwide pandemic, more employees than ever are working from home, and businesses need to get their employees their applications so they can do their jobs. Citrix Cloud gives businesses the flexibility to deliver the proper workspace to their end users.

Many applications that had not been delivered through a Citrix Workspace before were suddenly needing to be delivered through a workspace. Many administrators went straight to delivering desktop workspaces because applications work in a single user workspace.

Now that things have settled down somewhat, this is a great time to look at what was done in an emergency and make informed, data-driven decisions on what is the best workspace for these applications to be delivered. Are the applications able to be used on a multi-user operating system? If so, what would be the impact of running these applications on such systems? Or are single user workspaces the best way to go?

Rimo3 delivers fast, secure application behavior and experience insights for this deployment and tomorrow’s migrations. With Rimo3, you have the insights you need for application success in Citrix Cloud. With Rimo3, the key is automation.

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Automating App Testing, Behavior, and Insights

Traditional testing involves setting up test environments, getting users and application owners to find the time for testing, gathering the information from that testing, and determining whether an application is compatible based on the feedback from those users. This can be extremely time-consuming (anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks) for even a single application but most organizations have applications numbering in the thousands.

Rimo3 automatically imports your existing packages, tests them against the operating systems you’ve selected, then provides the necessary data to make an informed, data-driven decision on where the application can be used. If an application is found to have an issue, then the information of why it has an issue is explained so that the issue can be corrected.

App Testing for Windows Environments (Including Patch Tuesday Testing)

Enterprises can employ Rimo3 application compatibility for virtual workspaces and on-premises environments. Automation with Rimo3 can determine a data-driven migration strategy for applications without the burden of traditional human capital and can continuously test against Windows Patch Tuesday updates and application updates.

Through a clear, intuitive interface, Rimo3 lets you be proactive in determining if a Windows patch or application update would cause issues in your environment. Imagine being able to stave off pushing an incompatible update because you are doing, minimally, monthly automated testing of your applications against the latest Windows patches.

How much time and money are saved by catching application and patch issues before end users even have a chance to discover them?

Think about the downtime alone of the process. Imagine pushing updates, finding out from users about issues, investigating how widespread these issues are in the environment, determining the severity, deciding which patch caused the issue, and then reverting the patch out. No one wants to be in the position of explaining how something like that was missed.

App Behavior Insights for Virtual, On-Prem Deployments – Today and Tomorrow

The pace of change has never been higher in information technology — and keeping up with that pace is equally as difficult. Automation of processes, testing, and data gathering is more critical today than ever before. Rimo3 gives you the ability to test your applications through unattended automation. With automated application behavior insights, enterprises and service providers can reduce costs, speed time to deployment, and gain the data-driven confidence for application success in Citrix Cloud.

Learn more about confidently delivering applications across on-premises and virtual workspaces with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Rimo3