Amazon AppStream 2.0 customers
Online demos, trials, and training
Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corporation develops 3D CAD design software, analysis software, and product data management software. DS SolidWorks uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver trials of their flagship software - SOLIDWORKS 2018 CAD Premium, through MySolidWorks.com.
"Appstream 2.0 helps our prospects start their SOLIDWORKS trials in seconds through their browser with no downloads or installation on their local computer. Because AppStream 2.0 provides GPU optimized instances, our users have an experience indistinguishable from their local graphics workstation. This reduces the time it takes for users to complete trials of the latest version of SOLIDWORKS, in some cases from weeks to hours."
Suchit Jain, VP Strategy & Business Development, SOLIDWORKS
Siemens uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to provide virtual test drives, demo environments, and deliver training of its CAD software application, NX software. Siemens' NX is a powerful CAD software application that helps design and manufacturing customers deliver better products faster and more efficiently.
"AppStream 2.0 enabled us to seamlessly integrate virtual labs with our global digital learning platform “SITRAIN access”. This enables our customers to apply what they have learned in practice – even in digital learning. Customers access a fully equipped virtual exercise workplace consisting of engineering software, simulated hardware, and process models. Customers don’t need to download software and can access the labs from windows and non-windows devices. Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides every customer a dedicated instance, and in this sandbox approach, errors or experiments have no effect on a real system. Customers also have the ability to save and load their exercises as often as they want. AppStream enabled us to provide customers high-performance access from anywhere, anytime, with only an internet connection and a browser required.”
Philipp Rieckborn, Head of Knowledge Management and Training, Siemens Digital Industries
"AppStream 2.0 provides us the ability to instantly deliver Siemens’ NX for virtual test drives, software testing, and training. Previously, many hours were being spent on software installation and system setup for these activities. AppStream 2.0 solved this problem. With AppStream 2.0, we can deploy the latest version of NX and provide customers instant access to the application through their browser with no downloads, installs, or configuration required. And, the performance for our customers is indistinguishable from a powerful mobile workstation. We can now scale on-demand to any number of users we want to support. This makes it easier to help our customers get the benefits of the latest version of NX with reduced IT overhead.”
George L. Rendell, Senior Director, NX Design, Siemens Digital Industries Software
PTC’s technology helps industrial companies to create value for themselves and their customers. From hospital equipment with increased uptime and a spacesuit that is just as durable at half the weight, to more sustainable buildings and more efficient manufacturing— with the goal that each improvement helps to make our world a better place. PTC uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to provide trial and beta testing for the market leading CAD/CAM/CAE software application Creo Parametric, as well as to deliver training on Creo to our customers.
“Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables us to quickly provide access to our users to test and provide feedback on our latest enhancements before they are released to market. This enables product management and our development team to promptly respond to changing trends and customer input, thus delivering the right product to market. Through our trial program, customers can explore the power of Creo without the need to initially purchase hardware. With our real-time simulation solution, customers can gain insight to the value of Analysis-Led Design right from their browser. Amazon AppStream 2.0 removes the burden of download and installation and provides a single click and go workflow directly from the browser, from any machine, anywhere.”
Paul Sagar, VP, CAD Product Management, PTC
“PTC University uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to serve out virtual machines (VMs) for all Creo Parametric courses in our virtual training catalog. The performance is on par with that of a local Creo installation, even for more graphics-intensive areas of the software like Creo Simulation Live. There is no latency like that of a conventional VM. AppStream 2.0 also saves us the administrative overhead and expense of imaging and shipping laptops all over the world to address customers' needs. It has allowed us to transform our business in the middle of a pandemic, something not possible without AppStream 2.0.”– Matt Huybrecht, Education Development Manager, PTC”
Matt Huybrecht, Education Development Manager, PTC
AVEVA uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver instant access to AVEVA Everything3D (E3D) in its on-demand self-training platform, AVEVA Experience anytime and anywhere. E3D is a graphics-intensive, 3D engineering design application used around the world for capital projects such as offshore oil facilities and power plants.
“We needed a way for our customers to train new users, retain their essential skills, and learn new skills with E3D. With 4,000+ customers across the globe, we had to standardize our training experience, and ensure it could be securely delivered to any engineer. We knew the cloud was the best way to deliver this, and with AppStream 2.0 we can configure a single instance of E3D and deliver it to any number of engineers training with AVEVA Experience anywhere in the world. Because AppStream 2.0 runs inside their browser, customers don't need to worry about configuring and securing their computers or network. They can immediately start learning E3D with a responsive, fluid experience that is indistinguishable from a native installation on a workstation.”
Patrick Pando, VP Cloud Sales, AVEVA
DiSTI uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver virtual maintenance training solutions powered by the VE Studio platform to Global 500 companies and national defense organizations around the world. Catering to aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, and medical industry cases, the use of AppStream 2.0 has been transformational to clients’ while opening their eyes on how to deliver immersive virtual training to remote markets efficiently and economically. One client calculated over a 66% decrease in training delivery cost from a single course; reducing a traditional 3-day instructor-led technical certification course to 9 hours, while also improving student engagement and efficacy.
"AppStream 2.0 gives our customers an alternative to locally installed applications and training solutions. We needed a solution that delivered a user experience indistinguishable from a powerful desktop or laptop. We had two requirements – to use our existing applications and solutions without rewriting them and to have the ability to centrally manage the experience for a wide variety of global partners and customers. AppStream 2.0 gives our customers the power to remotely run graphically intense virtual training solutions, while efficiently managing content delivery.
Additionally, our sales and engineering teams can now leverage AppStream 2.0 to demonstrate our products and services to prospective buyers – all through an internet browser. With AppStream 2.0, we can show customers how they can reach their students in markets where traditional presentations or classroom delivery is either costly to setup or travel costs are prohibitive. On-site demonstrations used to take days, now we are able to deliver them remotely from our offices, without travel, in a matter of hours. What's not to like?”
Joe Swinski, President, DiSTI Corporation
SaaS with no rewrite
Multiview provides powerful, easy-to-use financial applications to enterprises of any size for accounting and financial planning. Using Amazon AppStream 2.0, Multiview developed a robust software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for their customers. AppStream 2.0 enabled Multiview to pivot their business to a cloud-first model without rewriting their application for the web.
“Many of our customers asked for a SaaS offering for our desktop application. While we could have rewritten our application as a web app, it would have cost millions of dollars and years of development. Instead, we simply deployed our application using AppStream 2.0 without rewriting any code. Now, we can instantly deliver our applications to any customer on the computer of their choice with a responsive and fluid experience.”
Jamil El Ghazal, Director, Technology Services, Multiview Corporation
S&P Global Market Intelligence understands the importance of accurate, deep, and insightful information. Their team of experts delivers insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global provides credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With each of their offerings, they help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
S&P Global launched a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for their suite of Wall Street Office (WSO) applications without application rewrite. WSO Software includes customer positions, trades, and portfolios and provides multi-asset class credit portfolio administration solutions for investment managers. It gives real-time visibility into portfolio performance and reduces manual entry, with additional features and integrations for a wide range of vital functions including compliance monitoring, accounting, reporting, loan origination, trade settlement, and more. Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables S&P Global to deliver their WSO suite globally to customers through a web browser with no local install.
"A major win for us with Amazon AppStream 2.0 has been the ability to scale our SaaS infrastructure without procuring or managing any hardware and push out a high volume of releases within a short period of time. AppStream 2.0 allows us to take a singular image, automate its production, use release pipelines to apply the new image to a fleet and roll that fleet underneath a stack. AppStream 2.0 gives us immense flexibility and a silent zero downtime blueprint deployment. The amount of time required per WSO release has dramatically reduced from 40 hours to just 3 hours using AppStream 2.0. We have been able to eliminate 30-hours' worth of downtime with real time updates and no downtime. Customers have gone from an 18-months upgrade cycle to a 3-months cycle while being able to keep software up to date with latest features. Using Blue/Green AppStream 2.0 fleets, we are able to release WSO applications without impacting the internal or external user experience.
In terms of client facing benefits, AppStream 2.0 has afforded us the ability to federate our customer user access. A federated model is something we could not do using the traditional model with TS farms or RDP. With AppStream 2.0, customers have a single point of login to access their applications and complete their jobs. Each user gets a dedicated instance and never shares a virtual machine with other users. This is a huge win for us from an end user perspective as it allows us to eliminate the cross-user impact seen in the traditional model."
Daniel Williams, Executive Director, Software Engineering, WSO, S&P Global Market Intelligence
EXXETA is an AWS Consulting and Solution Partner in the automotive, energy, and financial services industries. The company is one of the leading IT consulting and system integration firms, with 11 locations in Germany (headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany). With AWS, EXXETA provides standardized and individualized solutions for all market roles in the energy sector. EXXETA used Amazon AppStream 2.0 to launch SaaS solutions for their three flagship products - EXXETA Contract and Capacity, EXXETA Forecasting, and EXXETA Energy Trader.
"We have migrated our customer-base on-premises application delivery to the cloud with AWS. We are using Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver core customer-rich client-based applications in a SaaS model. We are leveraging AppStream 2.0 to launch single-tenant SaaS solutions and providing browser-based application access. Customers do not need to download or install any software or plugins, and can access the applications through a browser from any supported device. Customer feedback on the user experience has been great, as applications and data are co-located in AWS (better performance), and only encrypted pixels are streamed across the network. With Amazon AppStream 2.0, we have significantly reduced our Application and Infrastructure administrative overhead. In the previous on-premises environment, for every software release, we had to update the software on each endpoint device. Now, with AppStream 2.0, we update the image in AWS just once and every user gets the latest version of the software. AppStream 2.0 has also helped us improve our customer on-boarding process. Instead of spending weeks for customers to procure and install on-premises hardware and configure software, now we can on-board customers in just hours leveraging AWS infrastructure and AppStream 2.0 built-in features."
Sascha Gering, Sales Director at EXXETA
BiZZdesign uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver Enterprise Studio, the collaborative business change platform which provides indispensable insights into strategic business initiatives. Enterprise Studio allows its users to manage complexity, understand impact of change, enable transformations, and drive simplicity.
“Enterprise Studio is a Windows based desktop application that is the result of over 20 years of development. BiZZdesign strives to drive simplicity and we want our customers to easily access Enterprise Studio. To achieve this, we knew that we needed to move to the cloud and remove the need for customers to install applications on their desktops. With AppStream 2.0, we have the full functionality of our feature-rich desktop application globally available as an on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution in any HTML 5 browser. Now, we can deploy our software for a new customer anywhere in the world in a few minutes, while saving money and time for us and our customers. Using AppStream 2.0 reduced deployment cost by 92%."
Emiel Schuurman, VP Engineering, BiZZdesign
Civica are one of the largest providers in the health care insurance industry, managing over 2.7 million policies each year from 400 health care providers in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Their community care client management system is used to deliver responsive frontline care services and efficient administration for mental health, aged care, disability and child and family services. Civica developed a SaaS solution for their software without rewriting it using Amazon AppStream 2.0.
"We increasingly heard from customers that they wanted to stop purchasing, deploying, and operating infrastructure for our software. To meet the needs of our future and existing customers, we engaged with AWS and chose to utilize AppStream 2.0. With AppStream 2.0, we can deploy a full SaaS solution without rewriting it and now customers can start using our software in days instead of months without operating any infrastructure."
Claire Archbold, Senior Manager, Managed Services – Civica Care
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, PowerPlan's solutions provide transparency into financial data for North American energy and utility companies. Their software integrates key financial and operational data to allow customers clarity into making strategic decisions and to stay ahead of regulatory changes. PowerPlan launched a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution and utilized Amazon AppStream 2.0 as a part of that strategy.
"We chose Amazon AppStream 2.0 to migrate away from our legacy RDP infrastructure to drive greater efficiency, flexibility, and a smoother customer experience. Additionally, utilizing this solution fits into our modernization and security strategy as another layer securing our customers' data.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 helps our cloud customers launch applications faster as compared to the legacy model. Using AppStream 2.0 session scripts, we have improved our Dev Ops and deployment processes. Another big win for us has been the end-to-end user single sign-on access that allows our cloud customers to get one-click access to PowerPlan, greatly simplifying the user experience."
John Budala, Chief Information Officer at PowerPlan
Mensch und Maschine (MuM), founded in 1984 and headquartered in Wessling, Germany, is a leading provider of Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE); Product Data Management (PDM); and Building Information Modelling/Management (BIM) solutions. They have 75 locations in Europe, Asia, and America. MuM is using Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver on-demand training, trials, and demos.
"At the start of the pandemic, several of our seminars were cancelled with the move to remote work. In wake of this, we had to quickly pivot to an on-demand delivery model of training, trials and demos to our customers across the globe. AppStream 2.0 has helped us reduce our administrative overhead by 75% and improve customer delivery. Some customers have called us on a Friday requesting a training on Monday. We have been able to make it happen because AppStream 2.0 provides high performance access from anywhere, anytime with only an internet connection and browser needed. Another significant advantage with AppStream 2.0 is the better compatibility with the security guidelines from our customers. All in all, AppStream 2.0 is the right technology for us to run online trainings and the MuM SaaS platform efficiently and with high performance."
Mr. Markus Pech, CFO at Mensch und Maschine
Sine Wave Entertainment has been at the forefront of metaverse technologies for over 15 years. Sine Wave launched “Breakroom,” a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution and virtual workspace, using Amazon AppStream 2.0. Breakroom is designed for non-technical users and enables anyone to configure and launch a virtual world experience. Sine Wave designed Breakroom for networking, meetings, and events–enabling its customers and users to create and access custom virtual worlds from anywhere, at any time, on almost any device. Powerful out-of-the-box capabilities give companies the flexibility and freedom to create virtually anything, limited only by their imagination.
"AppStream 2.0 has allowed us to deliver a cloud-based metaverse to the market. Since launching Breakroom on AppStream 2.0, our enterprise customers can instantly access the metaverse from any device. Rich, immersive, 3D virtual worlds require graphics-rendering capabilities that most consumers, business users, and students do not have on their laptops and tablets. Being able to render metaverse projects remotely using AppStream 2.0 has transformed our business.”
Rohan Freeman, Founder, Sine Wave Entertainment
Datagenix Corporation, headquartered in Riverside, California, creates modern technology solutions for Health and Benefits payors. Datagenix provides Health claims processing and benefits administration solutions for Third Party Administrators, IPA, Self-administered employer groups, health insurance companies and Managed Care companies. Datagenix launched a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for their ClaimScape Benefits Application Suite using Amazon AppStream 2.0, without any application modifications. The new SaaS delivery model enabled Datagenix to meet their customers growing demand for scalability, security, and to reach new market segments.
"We chose Amazon AppStream 2.0 to move away from our on-premises infrastructure to a SaaS model to drive higher efficiency, increase security and deliver an optimized customer experience. Our SaaS launch has eliminated the need for our customers to procure, deploy or manage local hardware and move from a CAPEX to an OPEX model. With Amazon AppStream 2.0, customers can just open the browser and access the application from any device - reducing customer onboarding time from 6 weeks to 1 day. We have received positive feedback from the customers and seen up to 2X faster application response times.
Security is really important to us and AppStream 2.0 has helped us develop a secure solution to meet the very high security bar of our customers and this industry. Applications and data are replicated in multiple AWS zones and only encrypted pixels are streamed across the network. Every user gets a dedicated instance and we do not run into noisy or nosy neighbor problems. Our SaaS solution runs on AWS, so we benefit from its world class and highly secure data center and network architecture."
Mark Oja, Chief Executive Officer at Datagenix
Esri Australia is the exclusive local distributor of Esri's world-leading Geographic Information System (GIS) software and a member of the world's largest group of ArcGIS specialists outside of the United States – the Boustead Geospatial Group. Through its Managed Cloud Service offering, the organization works with country’s most progressive government agencies and commercial enterprises to provide fast, powerful and reliable mapping and spatial analytics capabilities hosted and managed in Australia, using Amazon AppStream 2.0.
“We have successfully partnered with AWS to deliver ArcGIS as a fully managed hosted platform. In order to extend this platform, we evaluated multiple Cloud desktop solutions and selected Amazon AppStream 2.0 for its reliable performance and multi-faceted functionality. It provides a diverse set of Graphics and non-Graphics instances enabling us to provide the best possible solution for a pay-as-you-go model. It also allows us to scale our environment up and down to meet customer demands without having to acquire, provision, and operate excessive hardware or infrastructure. Amazon AppStream 2.0 has also made it possible for our applications to be accessed from Windows and non-Windows devices. Since rolling out this solution, we have received positive feedback on the responsiveness and efficiency of the solution from our clients.”
Robbie Calcutt, Manager Cloud Services, ESRI Australia
Screening Eagle Technologies provides a full-stack inspection solution that combines software and portable sensors to deliver reliable data for construction and asset maintenance decisions.
Screening Eagle uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to seamlessly integrate and deliver their engineering application (Screening Eagle Insights) as part of their web-based applications suite (Screening Eagle WorkSpace). By delivering this suite as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, Screening Eagle optimizes their continuous improvement/continuous development (CI/CD) workflows and their end user experience. Learn more in the Screening Eagle blog.
“One of our most complex engineering developments is a Windows based application called Insights. Leveraging AppStream 2.0, Insights can be delivered instantly to our end users. Our end users used to spend countless hours installing software, managing licenses, and setting up their systems. This problem was solved with AppStream 2.0.
Thanks to AppStream 2.0, we can deploy the latest version of Insights and provide our end customers with instant access to the application through their browser without the need to download, install, or configure software, while delivering the same performance as if they were in front of a powerful GPU-based workstation. We can now scale on demand, supporting any amount of end users with flexibility, scalability, and organizational agility. With zero overhead from an IT and support perspective, it's easier for us to help our customers take advantage of the latest version of Insights. We can now provide a seamless experience that transitions between Insights and web applications on any operating system or device.”
Jesús Hormigo, Chief of Cloud and AI, Screening Eagle Technologies
Software Defined Automation (SDA) is a leading innovator in Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) lifecycle management based out of Boston, US. SDA empowers automation engineers to turn factories into software systems with cloud and modern software development tools. SDA launched DevOps and TechOps software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions using Amazon AppStream 2.0, enabling DevOps for PLCs through Git-based code versioning and collaboration, and TechOps for cloud-based management of conventional and virtual PLCs. SDA’s virtual PLC solution delivers independence from proprietary controllers on x86 servers at the edge.
“By leveraging Amazon AppStream 2.0, we were able to implement the IDE-as-a-Service feature in record time and integrate seamlessly with the other solutions in our stack. Automation engineers can now access the right version of IDE in seconds, with no need to install and maintain software on their local machines. With this tight integration between Amazon AppStream 2.0 and SDA TechOps and DevOps, automation engineers can now manage the entire lifecycle of PLC projects in a secure and reliable environment."
Josef Waltl, Co-founder and CEO of Software Defined Automation
Specialized applications
GE Renewable Energy harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water; delivering green electrons to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities. Amazon AppStream 2.0 let GE’s IT team simplify their application management process by giving their global business units the ability to securely manage their own applications.
“Over the last five years, our application grew from a single deployment to a global user base with data stored across the world. It was simply unmanageable for central IT to patch and update the application across every location and maintain backend databases for each of them. We decided to consolidate our databases on AWS, but also needed to simplify application management, and of course keep our application close to our database to ensure the performance our users had.
We needed a solution that was easy to deploy, simple to manage, and highly scalable that didn’t require us to rewrite our application. Typical application streaming solutions required purchasing expensive licenses, procuring and deploying infrastructure, and building out and operating complicated environments. And, on top of all of that we would continue to be the single team that had to build, patch, and maintain applications. The solution couldn’t scale.
Instead, we chose Amazon AppStream 2.0. With Amazon AppStream 2.0, we don’t operate any infrastructure, and scale on-demand to any number of users. And, we’re no longer the single team maintaining applications for each business unit. We simply configure a golden image, and let each team manage their application on it. This saves us days of work every month as we grow our deployment from hundreds to thousands of users.“
Glorius Gaduang, Principal Cloud Architect, GE Renewable Energy
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. The company’s deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help their clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. Using Amazon AppStream 2.0, the company converted two .NET desktop applications to SaaS—significantly reducing the time required to onboard new customers and eliminating costs associated with managing on-premises solutions. Watch Moody's speak about their AppStream 2.0 solution at re:Invent 2023.
“With AppStream 2.0, I can deliver an environment to a newly onboarded client in a few days versus a few months. “
Sreenivas Thirunagaru, Head of DevOps, Moody’s Analytics
Samsung Engineering is a leading engineering, procurement, construction and project management company. Samsung Engineering needed to expand internationally, but their on-premises infrastructure made it difficult to deliver the graphics-intensive applications in the Hexagon engineering software suite to their employees and partners around the world. They chose Amazon AppStream 2.0 because it offered the best performance for their needs while also reducing costs. Read the full case study here.
“Our on-premises infrastructure was not set up to collaborate with our international partners, and expanding this infrastructure to meet our needs was cost-prohibitive. With AppStream 2.0, we've been able to build a global collaboration model while also reducing our operating costs by 30%. Delivering these solutions with the scalability and flexibility of AppStream 2.0 are a clear benefit that allow us to operate globally."
Jeonghoon Lee, Senior Cloud Architect, Samsung Engineering Co.
Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Vanguard uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deploy a secure sandbox system that allows internal users to experiment with AWS and software in a safe, isolated environment.
Contractors & remote employees
Veolia is the global leader in optimized resource management. With over 171,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions which contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through its three complementary business activities Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them. Veolia looked to AWS to create a digital atmosphere in the company and needed to make all of its' applications available to its employees through a HTML5 browser and internet to complete their digital transformation.
“We began working with AWS because we wanted to create a digital atmosphere in Veolia. We chose AppStream 2.0 because it allows us to deliver our applications to our users securely, anywhere and at any time. The stack is now used by 300 people at the same time and running 24/7."
Catherine Bréda, Application Transformation Squad Leader, Veolia
Computer labs
When two Cornell University instructors wanted to improve student access to course resources, they turned to the cloud. By using cloud-based virtual desktops and application streaming services, every student could access the same application on any device. Cornell University adopted cloud solutions to achieve outcomes like increased in-class interactivity, eliminating the need for visits to the on-campus computer labs, and an improved experience for distance learners.
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