Desktop Strategy Assessment

Desktop Upgrade Assessment Illustration

Introduction

In an increasingly complex desktop environment, many organisations face significant scale of change associated with new technology upgrades. Microsoft Vista, SoftGrid, Virtualisation through VMWare or Hyper-V and Blade PC are all decisions that require serious impact analysis to ensure that the defined desktop strategy is both implementable and sustainable. Often, this analysis can stall as resources struggle to collate multiple sources of information into management summaries that actually translate into a scope of work and a realistic budget.

In association with key industry leaders, Juriba has developed a fast start desktop upgrade assessment that demystifies the complexity in the environment such that project scope, change impacts, strategic goals, budgets and timescales can be accurately identified. We aim to reduce the analysis phase by up to 50%, not only to identify what needs to be done, but also to add value using our dashworks toolset by dynamically targeting the quick wins to get there faster, better and smarter.

Service Features

Ability to import hundreds of thousands of objects for analysis from multiple domains, active directory trees and forests, and inventory mechanisms
Fast inventory your environment for users, computers and managed (provisioned) applications
Analyse current desktop strategy for the latest technology such as Vista and SoftGrid
Review the managed application portfolio for provisioned, installed and if possible, usage

Service Benefits

Understand exactly what you have, who is using it, when it is being used, and what is being used
Identify target strategies for operating system, hardware (Desktop vs Desktop Blade vs Server Blade) and Virtualisation
Identify and analyse the scope for your strategy implementation using real data, translated into real business case expense expectations
Analyse the readiness status of your environment for Vista, SoftGrid, Citrix, Application or Operating System Virtualisation
Identifies users and computers ready to migrate immediately
Focus on which elements of your environment require the most work and target the quick wins for faster results
Use Juriba's business case templates to facilitate the progression of your strategic upgrade project