Granular detail of your existing desktop assets, how they are used, by whom, when, and what infrastructure they are connected to such as firewalls, databases, communication, volume of data held on them, number of applications and how those applications communicate the dependencies they have along with the user personalisation. All are important factors in helping you decide your platform and plan any desktop transformation or upgrade.
Organisations have various tools and management information systems that can provide some of this data, however the larger the organisation, the more likely it is, that business units and users within it go off the corporate track and personalise their desktop and data.
How do you ensure critical information doesn’t get left behind when performing desktop migrations?
How do you ensure the information you have is accurate at the point of decision making and at the point of migration?
How do you do this with time efficiency, without disruption to BAU and on a tight budget?
Preparation Is Key To Success! - Before beginning any project involving desktops the first task must be application discovery. The larger and more geographically dispersed the desktop estate is, the bigger this task will be. If you don't already have an accurate list that you can trust you will need to perform an application discovery task as part of your project. The importance of this cannot be stressed enough. If you do not deliver the correct applications to the business on roll-out day, the reputation of your project will quickly be damaged and the user productivity and experience tarnished.
Using our discovery tools our consultants will provide a service to rapidly identify and produce a granular report with usage statistics on all the core information that you need for projects such as Win 7 upgrade, VDI Roll outs, and separation projects after acquisitions.
Our reports include but are not limited to: User name, Asset Details, Geographical Location, Memory, Port Mappings, IP Information, CPU and Disk utilisation - at a granular per user and per application level
Benefits of our Service:
- Rapidly and accurately identify the desktop environment(s) by user, department and geographical location
- Identify the data and applications for migration
- Assist with analysis and summarising the data
- Advise on desktop strategy that fits the business usage as identified by the discovery audit
- Identify costs and cost benefits for desktop options that are appropriate
- Identify the scale of activity associated with migration
- Drive an accurate high level plan for migration
- Identify migration risks
- Identify migration costs
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