Thin Client

MultiSession, Load Balancing, IP Camera Support and more now part of Thin Client management suit

Alpharetta, Georgia, March 22, 2010 - ACP, the leader in full featured industrial Thin Client management software, is proud to announce that its flagship product, ThinManager, has been combined with its other premium modules into a Thin Client Management Suite that will be known as Platform4.

Platform4 turns ThinManager's extensive thin client and Terminal Server management and configuration software into a full suite by adding Instant Failover, MultiSession, SmartSession, Terminal/Terminal Shadowing and Redundant Ethernet to the core product.
Platform4 expands the types of sources that can be displayed by allowing a number of different virtual displays (called Display Clients) to be viewed on a thin client. These Display Clients can be generated by a traditional session running on a Terminal Server, a shadowed thin client, or an IP camera. Multiple Display Clients can be viewed with a single thin client - either full screen or tiled to show up to 25 sessions on a single monitor. Every Windows application in the facility, no matter how incompatible, can be displayed on the same screen without any changes in the software.

"Most of our customers were already purchasing a number of these add-on modules," said David Hancock, VP of Marketing for ACP. "We wanted to provide even more value to our customers and realized we could do that by simply including them into the base product." Existing customers who upgrade to the latest version will see all these modules at no charge.

Each ThinManager Platform4 installation also includes five licenses of ACP's TermSecure, allowing Display Clients to be linked to a user instead of to a particular thin client. Users can then access their own virtual displays simply by authenticating to any thin client, essentially allowing them to take their desktop with them - wherever they happen to be.

"Thin client technology offers a combination of lower up-front costs, lower support costs, and reduced IT resource requirements", according to Craig Resnick, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group.

ThinManager is the standard for managing thin client deployments at many of the world's largest manufacturers who are looking to thin client technology to enhance security and cut energy use. Platform4 expands on ThinManager's lead and provides the framework for new Display Clients, including virtual machines, in the future.
About ACP
With close to 35,000 seats of its ThinManager product deployed since 1999, ACP has become the number one provider of thin client management software for manufacturing customers who need maximum flexibility and demand uncompromised reliability. More information is available online at thinmanager.com or by calling ACP directly at 678-990-0945.

ACP
David Hancock
VP, Marketing
[email protected]