Customers
Over 150 educational institutions, including universities, colleges and school systems, and 1.5 million students and staff are proud to use AppsAnywhere from Software2, worldwide.
Here's a selection of our awesome higher education customers from across the globe, including some recent videos we did with the University of Michigan and Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), on how they deliver any app, anywhere, anytime, with AppsAnywhere.
Featured customer stories
See how higher education institutions across North America and Europe are using AppsAnywhere
With over 4,500 higher education organizations and some of the world's most prestigious universities, it is no surprise that the United States and Canada represent the majority of AppsAnywhere users and Software2 customers.
Resource: Ontario colleges at the forefront of using technology to improve the student experience >>
Given the geography and logistics of North American higher education, a sophisticated, cost-effective and highly scalable solution is required to consistently deliver software with a seamless user experience to 1,000,000+ students. Read the below case studies to learn more about how AppsAnywhere is revolutionizing the student experience and higher education institutions' digital offerings in North America...
Learn about our North American customers and how we've helped universities of all sizes, whether IT is centralized or decentralized, revolutionize how they deliver software and the student and user experience they're able to deliver.
Case studies: North AmericaOur awesome customers (North America)
Providing universal access to software across campuses at Seneca College
Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario speaks on their experience with AppsAnywhere and how the service has allowed them to massively reduce image sizes, deal with a single, updatable image, refine their digital offering to students and focus more upon their students specific IT needs.
Achieving key strategic application delivery goals at University of Utah
In this video, Seth Walsh and James Lancaster of the University of Utah discuss the difference AppsAnywhere has made to their IT department's offering to staff and students.
Virtualizing demanding engineering applications at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan's College of Engineering has chosen AppsAnywhere, after looking for an alternative application virtualization solution to replace their existing Microsoft App-V environment.
With the UK & Europe being Software2's places of origin, they are also two of the most progress-hungry regions when it comes to higher education IT and delivering a truly cutting-edge digital student experience.
Resource: UK Universities Lead The Way On Student BYOD with AppsAnywhere >>
With ambitions to provide consistent and perpetual access to software for students in combination with stellar reputations to uphold, institutions of a broad range of sizes and with a wide variety of specialties are finding AppsAnywhere to be instrumental in achieving these goals. Delve further into the specifics of how Software2 is helping to improve students' experiences in UK & European universities...
Learn more about how we've helped universities in the United Kingdom and Europe overhaul their software delivery process and provide a greatly optimized student and user experience, and read individual case studies on some of the awesome implementations our customers have achieved!
Case studies: UK & EuropeOur awesome customers (UK & Europe)
Changing the way students access apps with BYOD at Coventry University
Coventry University needed a better way of delivering software to 50,000 students. See how IT are deploying apps to Windows, Mac and Linux, and also taking strategic advantage of BYOD to deliver apps to students' personal computers.
Creating a mobile campus with anywhere access to apps at Durham University
Learn how Durham University have enabled student access to software on any device across campus (including macOS and Chromebooks) thanks to AppsAnywhere, Cloudpaging and Parallels RAS
Thomas More University enable BYOD and improve the student experience
Learn how Thomas More's hugely successful implementation of AppsAnywhere has reduced demand upon IT, enabled BYOD and augmented their students' digital experiences!
< 5,000 students
Fewer users doesn't equal fewer problems. Smaller universities are often challenged with similar workloads as their larger brethren, but with leaner IT departments and budgets. Universities and higher education institutions with anywhere up to 5,000 students require an efficient software deployment solution that can be managed with ease and deployed with confidence.
AppsAnywhere has found a place of favor within IT of universities and colleges with up to 5,000 students worldwide by elegantly solving challenges the largest 'overkill solutions' can't. All with a lean price point that's easy to approve.
5,000 - 10,000 students
How can we leverage BYOD? This question is at the forefront for organizations of all sizes. Even more so for universities and higher education institutions with anywhere up to 10,000 students, where the addition of dedicated computer labs just doesn't make fiscal sense.
AppsAnywhere easily enables BYOD use which helps medium-sized organizations expand their computing landscape without a huge expense. Read more by clicking the below button...
AppsAnywhere for medium-sized organizations
10,000+ students
A large, distributed IT structure can present a range of problems for large organizations, such as overspending on software licenses and duplication of effort and other expenditures. Universities and higher education institutions with over 10,000 students require a software deployment solution that can be centrally managed and report back on application usage.
Large organizations often look to AppsAnywhere as the catalyst to streamline operations and break down inefficient IT silos. Read more by clicking the below button...
AppsAnywhere for large organizations
AppsAnywhere
AppsAnywhere integrates with all the leading software delivery technologies to present and deploy software titles in a single, brandable front-end app store, enabling Unified Application Delivery. Using contextual delivery options and smart prioritization, AppsAnywhere removes the need for multiple large images or high-end VDI investments, helps ensure license compliance whilst providing all-important usage data to IT to allow for informed management of licenses.
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Application virtualization
Application virtualization is the spiritual successor to desktop virtualization (VDI). By encapsulating applications and separating them from the operating system they're to be executed on, app virtualization presents a viable and contemporary alternative to large, expensive VDI solutions. Click the button below to read our whitepaper on app virtualization: The ultimate guide to application virtualization.
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Consolidating VDI & reducing imaging with Highline College, WA
Read our case study on how Highline College has consolidated its VDI tools, reduced the number of images in their software delivery estate and provided more software access options for their students.
Improving IT efficiencies with app delivery at Hochschule Ruhr West
Learn how Hochschule Ruhr West are using AppsAnywhere and application virtualization to increase internal IT efficiencies and improve how they deliver software to students.
Sheridan College joins the student 'bring-your-own-device' revolution
With more than 20,000 students across campus, discover how Sheridan College in Canada improved how they deliver applications, enabled Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and overhauled their student's digital learning experience with AppsAnywhere.
Providing universal access to software across campuses at Seneca College
Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario speaks on their experience with AppsAnywhere and how the service has allowed them to massively reduce image sizes, deal with a single, updatable image, refine their digital offering to students and focus more upon their students specific IT needs.
Meeting student expectations of software on-demand at Loyalist College
Loyalist College, Ontario discuss how AppsAnywhere has helped them provide a consistent way for students to access software, reduced their image size and improved their end-user computing experience.
Thomas More University enable BYOD and improve the student experience
Learn how Thomas More's hugely successful implementation of AppsAnywhere has reduced demand upon IT, enabled BYOD and augmented their students' digital experiences!
Achieving key strategic application delivery goals at University of Utah
In this video, Seth Walsh and James Lancaster of the University of Utah discuss the difference AppsAnywhere has made to their IT department's offering to staff and students.
Making software apps more accessible for students at Georgian College
Georgian College was seeking a method of dealing with continually increasing software package requests from faculty and of making technology more seamlessly accessible to students, especially given Ontario's winter weather and resulting campus closures. They found this in AppsAnywhere, keep watching to learn more!
Creating a mobile campus with anywhere access to apps at Durham University
Learn how Durham University have enabled student access to software on any device across campus (including macOS and Chromebooks) thanks to AppsAnywhere, Cloudpaging and Parallels RAS
Changing the way students access apps with BYOD at Coventry University
Coventry University needed a better way of delivering software to 50,000 students. See how IT are deploying apps to Windows, Mac and Linux, and also taking strategic advantage of BYOD to deliver apps to students' personal computers.
Improving software delivery to 9,000 students across campus at Odisee
Odisee encountered the same challenge faced by University IT the world-over: deploying 100s of software titles to 9,000 students, wherever they might be. See how the university are using AppsAnywhere to virtualize apps, reduce SCCM image size, and keep track of software licensing.
Glasgow Caledonian University improves National Student Survey scores
Watch Scotland's leading Modern University, Glasagow Caledonian (GCU), explain how they improved their National Student Survey scores, thanks to AppsAnywhere.
Increasing software availability with AppsAnywhere at the University of Derby
See why University of Derby is calling AppsAnywhere a "game changer", helping them provide a world-class student experience by making apps available wherever and whenever.
Deploying lab software to students across campus at George Brown College
See how George Brown College is using Cloudpaging application virtualization technology and AppsAnywhere to deploy lab apps to students across campus.
Application Virtualization at Oxford Brookes University with AppsAnywhere
Oxford Brookes University discuss how application virtualization has helped them provide an enhanced student experience and why they chose Cloudpaging ahead of alternatives such as App-V.
Virtualizing demanding engineering applications at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan's College of Engineering has chosen AppsAnywhere, after looking for an alternative application virtualization solution to replace their existing Microsoft App-V environment.
Improving the student experience with virtualized apps at University of Surrey
After testing a series of application virtualization technologies, the University of Surrey chose AppsAnywhere to deliver apps to students, thanks to its 100% virtualization rate and easy-to-manage interface.
Deploying STEM apps anywhere on campus at Kingston University London
After merging faculties, Kingston University needed a way to provide students access to their STEM apps anywhere, anytime.
