Event Details
The Distributed Desktop Portal*: An Architecture for Open Enterprises
Presenter: Dr. Ernie Chang, M.D. Ph.D., Chief Strategy Officer, iW Technologies Inc.
Supervisor: PANDA Group
Date: Thu, March 8, 2001
Time: 10:00:00 - 11:00:00
Place: Engineering Office Wing Building (EOW) Room # 430
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT:
The Distributed Desktop Portal is an information systems architecture for enterprises that connect outside their firewalls to a frequently changing complex of suppliers, applications, partners, databases, and other resources. Specifically, it is an approach to the management of the computing Desktops of the workforce of an organization, such that security, roles, efficiency, change management and reliability are addressed.
The key concept is the centralized management of user profiles that represent specific group policies for security and application access, within a client-server model that is based on communicating over the Internet, rather than a LAN.
The client at the host PC is a launch platform with specific Shell Services that neither Microsoft Windows, nor Internet browsers provide. These services are the mechanisms for the implementation of central policies for users such as Single Sign-On, application audits, client-side integration, application synchronization.
By using the Internet as the communications base, the DDP architecture facilitates ubiquitous access to the user's virtual Desktop anywhere over IP space.
By using the local PC as host on a per-session basis, the enterprise uses the PC's computing capabilities, and overcomes the mainframe bottleneck and scalability problems associated with server-centric Desktops.
By separating the user-management problem from machine management, DDP makes NT networks and Windows easier to administer, and more efficient in adapting to the changing set of applications and resources that enterprises experience.
The DDP architecture finds its first instantiation in Vividesk (TM) from iW Technologies Inc.
* US and Canadian Patents Pending