AppSense Achieves Fifth Straight Year of Record Growth and Expands Operations into APAC and Latin America

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions, today announced record growth for the first half of its financial year 2012, July 1 to December 31, 2011. AppSense increased orders by in broad outline 46 percent while this period, a result of the significant increase in large deployments and increasing presence in industries beyond the company's strong base in finance, government, healthcare and education. While this same period, AppSense expanded its global workforce by near 40 percent.

To accommodate this growth, the global increase in demand for user virtualization innovation and in response to growing customer and partner needs, AppSense is expanding operations into Asia-Pacific and Latin America. In the second half of its 2012 fiscal year, the company will open offices in Brazil, Hong Kong and Singapore.

The past six months

In the past six months, AppSense has experienced a significant increase in the number of large deployments and multi-national clients. As a result, the company will expand its global reach by establishing offices in areas of high customer and partner demand by actively recruiting top talent with expertise in the desktop, user experience and virtualization markets to support the Asia-Pac and Latin America offices. Serving as the hub for its Asia-Pac efforts, the Singapore office will as well spearhead the company's initial entry into China and Korea and support its fast growing presence in Australia and New Zealand, where AppSense has more than 400 clients and experienced a doubling of new business orders last quarter over the same quarter of the previous year.

"Worldwide demand for user virtualization is driving our growth and greatly expanding our global footprint," said Darron Antill, CEO at AppSense. "Our enterprise clients require service and support offerings at the local level, and we see tremendous possibility to positively impact businesses in these new geographies with our user virtualization solutions."

Global independent software provider

AppSense is a global independent software provider and leading name in user virtualization solutions driven to redefining the relationship the world has with research, by unlocking it, so that research doesn't control what we do. AppSense is focused on the creation of game-changing innovation solutions that re-write the economics of IT and that become the life-force for a mobile, interconnected, interactive world. With the advent of myriad mobile devices, Windows 7, cloud computing, data privacy and ever-demanding employees, user virtualization allows you to unlock the potential of these new technologies during liberating your most valuable asset. AppSense technology is used around the world by more than 4,000 companies. AppSense has offices in New York and Santa Clara in the US, London and Manchester in the UK, and additional offices in Munich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Paris and Oslo. For more information, visit www.appsense.com .