The digital workspace — and particularly application management — is becoming increasingly complex. Think of outdated applications, hybrid IT environments, growing pressure on IT teams, and stricter security requirements. By decoupling applications from the operating system (layering) and assigning them dynamically, management becomes simpler, more secure, and more flexible.
In this blog, we share three real-world FlexApp use cases.
1. Reducing management overhead with large application portfolios
Many organisations manage hundreds of applications — from standard software and line-of-business apps to industry-specific solutions. Mergers, outsourcing, and hybrid work models often lead to multiple platforms in use, making application management increasingly complex.
With FlexApp, applications are decoupled from the underlying OS and managed as independent “layers.” Updates can be deployed almost in real time — without having to modify golden images or use different solutions per platform (on-prem, virtual, or cloud). This reduces management overhead, lowers the risk of errors, and minimises downtime.
An example comes from a Shared Service Centre supporting six municipalities and one province in The Netherlands. Their partner environments were spread across several architectures — including Citrix, VMware, and FAT clients — creating a complex and costly management setup. By implementing FlexApp, they standardised application delivery and management across all platforms.
A similar challenge arose at the University Hospital Groningen, which runs a mix of physical, virtual, and cloud desktops. According to Wim van Wiek, Team Manager Workspace Management at UMCG:
“We wanted to make our workspace management more efficient. With Microsoft App-V reaching end of life, we also needed a strategy that would work across all our workspace types and adapt to future changes. We found that flexibility in Liquidware’s solutions.”
2. Phasing out legacy solutions
Application lifecycle management is becoming more difficult due to fragmented application landscapes, outdated dependencies, and long update cycles. The end-of-life of App-V makes this even more urgent: many virtualised applications are poorly documented, difficult to transfer, and hard to reproduce in modern environments such as AVD or Windows 11.
FlexApp breaks the traditional “package-per-platform” model. Applications are packaged once, managed from a single central console, and deployed across any environment — physical PCs, VDI, or cloud workspaces such as AVD or Citrix. This eliminates the need to repackage and retest for each platform, saving significant time and effort. FlexApp also integrates seamlessly with modern tools such as Intune and existing VDI infrastructures, ensuring a technically manageable and future-proof transition.
A large municipality illustrates this well: Their IT strategy relied heavily on Microsoft App-V, with more than 100 applications manually built into a single golden image. Every update required extensive repackaging and testing — a slow and labour-intensive process. When testing MSIX, they found compatibility lacking: critical applications simply wouldn’t run.
By moving to FlexApp, the organisation achieved the flexibility and scalability it needed. Applications that had previously been impossible to virtualise could now be centrally managed and deployed to all platforms — from AVD to laptops — without extra packaging or custom work. This resulted in significant efficiency gains.
(A similar case can be found at The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead – read their experience here.)
3. Personal and secure provisioning
In hybrid and shared workspace environments, users need to be able to switch devices quickly — without losing their personal settings or application preferences. With Ivanti Workspace Control reaching end of life, many IT teams are searching for a modern alternative.
FlexApp enables dynamic application assignment per user, without requiring a reboot. Combined with ProfileUnity, user profiles are also decoupled from the underlying platform. Profile data is loaded based on the user rather than the device. Through contextual policies, settings can automatically adapt to factors like location, time, role, workspace type, or security requirements.
A practical example comes from the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, which uses Windows Cloud PCs. By combining FlexApp and ProfileUnity, they manage both applications and user settings from a single console.
“Some organisations try to handle everything through Intune, but that doesn’t always work. We want changes to be available to users instantly, not after long sync cycles. We also needed an alternative for Ivanti Workspace Control. With ProfileUnity, we can automatically load the right configuration whenever a user opens a specific application.”
A mental healthcare organisation running shared Citrix workspaces made a similar move — using the combination of ProfileUnity and FlexApp to maintain a consistent user experience while simplifying management.
In summary
FlexApp provides organisations with a future-proof way to simplify workspace management, reduce costs, and replace legacy solutions. More and more organisations are choosing FlexApp to stay in control of their digital environment.
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