In this tutorial we’ll show you how you can provide the most seamless app experience for your users with Cameyo’s native Chrome OS file system integration.

Cameyo’s file system integration with Chrome OS gives your users direct access to their local folders and files from within virtual apps. This, combined with Cameyo PWAs, enables your Chrome OS users to launch any Windows apps directly from their taskbar and open/edit/save files locally on their device – all without the apps being installed locally.

Let’s take a look at how it works:

Once you activate our file system integration for your users, the Cameyo file dialog will display “My Device” on the left-hand side, allowing your users to connect to their local folder of choice.

Clicking on “My Device” will let the user select the folder they’d like to connect. Due to HTML5 safety measures, your users will be prompted for permission twice – once for Read access, and once for Write access. Click Allow for both.

And that’s it!

Now your users’ selected folder will be available to them within Cameyo sessions. They can now open, edit, and save files locally on their device from within virtual apps, just as if the apps were installed locally.

Combined with Cameyo PWAs, Cameyo’s native file system integration with Chrome OS delivers a truly seamless app experience on Chromebooks, even for Windows apps, which requires absolutely no change to the user’s behavior.

To learn more about publishing and pushing any app to your users’ taskbar in minutes as a PWA, head to our channel and check out our Cameyo for PWAs tutorial.

With Cameyo’s Progressive Web App (PWA) capabilities, virtual apps appear as natively-installed apps on end-users’ Chromebooks. Cameyo’s integration with Google Admin console enables IT to easily push apps to users’ Chrome OS taskbar.

Cameyo PWAs provides all the security and simplicity of delivering apps from the browser with Cameyo, but with the added benefit of making those apps seem native – as if they were installed on the device – to the end user.

Instead of opening a browser tab to access their apps, with Cameyo PWAs users can simply click the app icon from their Chrome OS shelf or Chromebook taskbar, and the app runs in its own window, just as a locally-installed app would. And with Cameyo, every Windows app can be delivered as a Cameyo PWA session – even if that app does not have a PWA version itself.

Cameyo’s integration with Google Admin console enables IT teams to publish apps in Cameyo and then push those apps to users’ Chrome OS devices – based on roles or groups profiles – within minutes.

Welcome to Cameyo! In this video we’ll guide you through the steps of setting up a Cameyo server in your own environment. We’ll then walk you step-by-step through the process of publishing your apps.

Welcome to Cameyo! In this video we’ll walk you step-by-step through the process of creating your Cameyo server and publishing your first apps in a Cameyo Fully Hosted environment.

When independent software vendor (ISV) ProSolutions realized it was losing customers who needed a web-based solution, it originally sought to web-enable its traditional desktop software. Until they realized the time and cost involved.

“We received a quote that told us it would cost between $3-5 million to redevelop our platform for the web, and it would take 12-18 months,” said Stephen Wiggins, Co-Owner of ProSolutions. “And in the end, it would likely only have had around 80% feature parity with our existing version. There was no way we were going to pay millions of dollars, only to provide our customers with less functionality than they were used to.”

After exhausting the other cloud enablement options, including remote desktop-based approaches, ProSolutions discovered Cameyo.

“We needed our customers to be able to use the application just as if it were installed locally, and that’s exactly the experience they have now with Cameyo,” said Wiggins. “Our users just login from our website, or save a link to their desktop, and it opens the app in their browser – they don’t even have to know that it’s not local.”

“We now have a very bright future. Cameyo really did save our company.”

Learn about the challenges ProSolutions was facing when it came to SaaS-enabling their software, the various options they evaluated, and the results they’ve seen since web-enabling their software with Cameyo.

When retail chain Ur&Penn made the decision to migrate from Windows PCs to Chromebooks, they quickly realized that there were still several legacy apps they needed which wouldn’t work on Chrome OS.

“We knew we wanted to make the move to Chromebooks, but we still have several Windows apps that our staff rely on to be productive,” said Emir Saffar, CIO at Ur&Penn. “Despite the cost, security, and management benefits of Chromebooks, we couldn’t proceed unless our staff could maintain access to their critical apps.”

Ur&Penn first attempted to utilize Virtual Desktop (VDI & DaaS) solutions from Citrix and then Nutanix, but complexity and user experience issues forced them to seek out a different path. In this video, Ur&Penn’s CIO discusses why he switched from Virtual Desktops to Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery (VAD) service, and the benefits they’ve seen as a result.

Today we’re going to take a look at a key benefit that Cameyo Analytics’ AI enables – real-time optimization. Cameyo Analytics provides an end-to-end view of your Virtual App Delivery environment. 

• Here you can see your total CPU & RAM usage over time, which Cameyo Analytics uses to identify over-provisioning and help reduce cost.
• You can also see all of your session requests, which Cameyo Analytics utilizes to identify potential issues before they result in support tickets.
• Cameyo Analytics also provides detailed information on Session Concurrency, Session Duration, and more. 

Leveraging the power of our industry-first AI for Virtual App Delivery, Cameyo Analytics automatically optimizes your cloud or on-premises environment. This ensures that your end-users have the best experience with their apps while also reducing cost by automatically optimizing infrastructure utilization in the background. 

And better yet, if you’re utilizing our fully-hosted platform, this real-time optimization requires zero interaction from you. Cameyo Analytics ensures dynamic provisioning of power where and when you need it, all while maintaining the industry’s best value with flat-rate pricing.

Better performance, at a better price. That’s the power of Cameyo Analytics. 

If you’re ready to see Cameyo in action or to take it for a test drive yourself, head over to Cameyo.com and either request a demo or start your free trial.  

In this on-demand webinar – originally filmed at Tech Talk Live 2021 – Cameyo is joined by one of our customers, Community High School District 99 (CSD99) of Illinois.

CSD99 discusses how their 1:1 initiative put them at an advantage when it came to enabling remote learning, but they quickly noticed that there was one key issue – many courses still relied on at least one Windows application that could not be accessed on Chromebooks. Without access to the physical PC labs at each campus, those courses simply couldn’t be fully delivered. CSD99 needed to move quickly to enable distance learning in response to the pandemic, and their previous experience with legacy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) vendors had taught them those technologies were not an option for rapidly enabling remote learning at scale.

In this session, Rod Russeau, Director of Technology & Information Services for CSD99, provides details of how he and his team quickly and cost-effectively enabled distance learning with the help of Cameyo. He’s joined by Jordan Pusey of Cameyo, and together they cover:

• How CSD99 is enabling the secure delivery of Windows to any device both for distance learning and to ensure a seamless, productive learning experience for students regardless of location.
• A demo of how CSD99 was able to utilize Cameyo’s Digital Workspace platform to publish Windows apps to their students within minutes, not weeks.
• An overview of the ROI CSD99 has seen from utilizing Chromebooks & Cameyo from hard cost savings to the elimination of PC labs, to the reduction in management time required.

Want to see how easy it can be for your people to access all of their applications from anywhere, and on any device? Check out this 3-min end-user tutorial to see how simple Cameyo makes it for your people to remain productive from anywhere.