AppDNA Overview
Clayton Doige – Product Specialist
Agenda
• AppDNA Overview
• The Four Phases of AppDNA
• Q&A
The ‘old way’
Manual effort
?
Time
Cost
Risk
The ‘AppDNA way’
Automation
Time
Application
“DNA”
Cost
Risk
How Analysis Works
Current OS
Target OS
Build Assessment
Gold Master
Image
• If the master image is modified
• Changes could break app compatibility
• Every image based on the master image should be
revalidated
• Due to time requirements, only master image is ever
validated
• AppDNA 7.6 re-validates other images
based on the master image
Engineering
Image
Manufacturing
Image
Remote
Worker Image
Back Office
Image
The Four Phases of AppDNA
1.Integrate
2.Plan
3.Execute
4.Manage (BAU)
Integrate
All Applications
MSI
NON-MSI
Audit / Performance / Runtime
Users / Groups / Devices
ISV / Internally Developed
Web
Apps
OS
Applications
Windows / Web /
ISV / Internally developed
Windows 8
Windows XP
Server 2003
Server 2012 R2
DNA Database
Plan
Effort Calculator
• Plan time
requirements
• Plan resource
requirements
• Understand cost
Forward Path
• Model
application
deployment
• Model
application
remediation
Execute
App-V on XenDesktop x64
UAT
MSI on XenDesktop x64
UAT
App-V on XenDesktop x86
UAT
App-V on XenDesktop x64
UAT
Execute - Remediation
Manage
New
Applications
Self Developed
Automation