Windows Vista Upgrade Assessment
Introduction
Organisations looking to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7 will need to budget approximately £910 ($1,683) per user for the end to end migration according to leading research organisations. They also anticipate that 41-59% of the migration cost can be avoided by managing the refresh through hardware attrition (i.e. upgrade the operating system when the user receives a new machine). The challenge is knowing whether that user can be upgraded safely and with confidence by understanding their application portfolio compatibility against the new operating system.
Juriba's fast start assessment service provides a full proof of concept environment based around a subset of users so that you can understand the key to avoiding the cost in the future, but also gain control in the here and now. Once you see your world, you will understand how not only can you migrate through hardware attrition, but also how you can use your break/fix machine rebuild events to also drive faster deployment.
Whether or not the need to upgrade is immediate, it is clear that organisations that prepare successfully now will deliver a faster, smarter and more cost effective project. Imagine having the key to all those potential savings. This is where Juriba, using it's desktop business intelligence software, dashworks, can help. Implementing dashworks now gives you complete understanding of the users, computers and applications in your environment, and provides a dynamic 'Red', 'Amber' or 'Green' rating against every user and computer in your infrastructure.
Service Features
- Rapid start assessment of real world users, computers and applications for readiness to Vista
- Imports actual data from Active Directory, NT Domains, SMS and/or SCCM
- Understand which users are 'Red', Amber' or 'Green' based on their application entitlements
- Understand which computers are suitable for Vista based on processor, CPU and disk
- View the current hardware and software portfolio in the organisation
Service Benefits
- Unlock the door to millions of pounds/dollars of project cost avoidance
- Rationalise the amount of software in your organisation lowering maintenance and project costs
- Remove redundant users, computers and groups from your environment to reduce the project scope
- Target which applications to remediate first, based on real world provision scenarios to end users
- Build a business case with concrete numbers to support your migration showing the benefits of a hardware attrition / break/fix methodology to drive the upgrade