Solutions for Windows 7 enterprise migration
Windows 7 transformation from XP
For most organisations, Windows 7 will be the next Microsoft platform on the corporate desktop. It brings many benefits to the end user across the board and helps take desktop stability to the next level. Combine this with the end of life of the current majority desktop operating system, Windows XP in April 2014, and you have a compelling reason to start planning now.
With IT departments as slim in terms of resource as they have ever been due to the recession, there simply isn’t the option to throw masses of people into a major transformation program. It is for this reason that most organisations are investigating automation tools to help accelerate the planning, profiling and analysis of their assets for Windows 7.
Dashworks is the only end to end Windows 7 transformation project lifecycle management tool on the market today. It is also the only solution on the market to natively connect to the industry leaders on automated application compatibility: ChangeBASE AOK and AppDNA’s AppTitude.
Leveraging these toolsets, Dashworks is able to provide even greater levels of out of the box automation for asset compatibility testing.
The steps to automation
Dashworks is a solution that builds on the best technology in the market to accelerate your transformation program and help you to save cost. Here is our simple 10 step plan for you to start your migration work:
- Use the Juriba return on investment model to accelerate your transformation budget planning.
- Build your data warehouse of critical project information:
- Users and Groups from Active Directory
- Hardware and Software inventory from your organisation’s desktop management tool (e.g. SCCM/SMS)
- Application Package detail (from your application repository)
- PC ownership data (if required) from your own inventory system
- Import department and Location hierarchies for your organisation’s users
- Identify your organisational compatibility with Windows 7
- Set hardware rules
- Link to ChangeBase/App-DNA or set your own compatibility status for each software application
- Rationalise your application portfolio
- Identify and remove least used applications
- Identify and remove common and duplicate applications
- Analyse and model your organisation’s most efficient route to Windows 7
- Which users, departments or locations are the easy wins?
- Which applications should you remediate and in which order?
- Impact analysis (e.g. what if I support this hardware model)?
- Map your end to end project process (tasks) into the Dashworks project system
- Configure project stages, tasks and migration paths
- Build your project
- Identify and onboard in scope users, computers and applications
- Forecast your organisation’s deployment schedule
- Manage your end to end migration through dynamic dashboards and communication automation
- Utilise the Dashworks agent to provide self-service migration to your users (optional)
- Trigger your automated migration using Dashworks migration planning data
