WAPT, a solution that evolves with its users

Our collaboration with Figeac Aero

The arrival of WAPT within Figeac AERO

“WAPT is more interesting, the open source and free side of the software allows more flexibility.”

As part of his second year BTS internship, Gwendal was put in charge of finding a software deployment solution. He then heard about WAPT through a article by Korben.

After a comparative study of different solutions like Microsoft SCCM or Chocolatey, he was quickly convinced by the freedom offered by the open source version of WAPT.

Gwendal finds the software more interesting, its Open Source aspect allows him to test the flexibility of the software without having to pay a license fee. The ability to code and deploy  complex applications internally and independently will be a deciding factor for their decision.

“Deployment onto workstations is completed very quickly

After having proposed WAPT to his CIO, Gwendal continued with a 2-week test phase on 15 different workstations. He undertook this phase without contacting the Tranquil IT team, he simply used the technical documentation, documentation that he finds even clearer today. In one month the solution was tested and then deployed on all workstations on site.

WAPT, a tool that evolves with its users

“In the long term, WAPT should manage between 1,500 and 1,800 workstations.”

Cédric echos on the comments of his colleague by explaining that today WAPT manages 945 workstations. Within a few months, international subsidiaries should benefit from WAPT. Thus Figeac Aero will constitute a multi-site fleet of 1500 to 1800 workstations. That’s no less tan 10 sites in North Africa, Tunisia, Mexico and France (Auxerre, Toulouse, Saint-Nazaire) that are involved.

Daily fleet management with WAPT

“Within the team, 3 people use WAPT daily.”

“With the evolution of Figeac Aero, individual deployment  becomes complicated.”

Before the implementation of WAPT, application deployment was done manually with the use of GPOs when possible, this method was quite time-consuming.

This is the problem faced by Figeac AERO sites that do not yet have WAPT. The subsidiary in Tunisia is growing rapidly and is facing the problem of manual deployment, for example.

The advantages of WAPT Enterprise for Figeac Aero

“WAPT Enterprise, a viable solution for high-volume projects”

The Figeac AERO team has trusted Tranquil IT and uses WAPT Enterprise to meet the needs of their ever-growing IT assets. The many additional features provide more clarity to the management of the multi-site fleet.

Filtering by OU allows you to organize the WAPT console and is more practical for large parks like at  Figeac AERO.

Role differentiation allows different users to connect with accounts that do not have the same rights. So Cedric is the only one who can create packages. He also took advantage of the preferential rates for software training with Tranquil IT by choosing WAPT Enterprise.

WAPT Enterprise also allows you to propose or force updates and warn the users concerned, so manual deployment is no longer relevant thanks to this solution.

It’s  always a pleasure to talk about WAPT.”