6 steps to Windows 7
The Dashworks process for migrating from XP to Windows 7
Dashworks is a modular software suite, based around its ‘desktop business intelligence’ analysis core, with add-on components for project management and a user agent that assist safe, reliable and rapid enterprise migrations to Windows 7.
Step 1: Build your data warehouse
Dashworks is ‘out of the box’ desktop data warehousing. Using our revolutionary connector technology, our agentless data scrapes consolidate multiple sources of organisational asset information into a single authoritative source.
All you need to do is tell Dashworks where to collect its data. Active Directory, SCCM/SMS, ChangeBase AOK and AppDNA’s AppTitude are just some of the database repositories supported today.
With the data warehouse built, our advanced search enables you to find literally anything contained within in a matter of milliseconds.
Step 2: Profile your assets
Once the data is loaded, our Dashworks engine dynamically links all of the key information to build an organisational profile of asset usage.
Users, devices and applications are all inspected to provide a complex web of interdependencies, resulting in clear views on device ownership, application entitlements, application installations and asset usage.
Step 3: Analyse your application compatibility and user readiness
Finding the easy wins for a desktop transformation such as Windows 7 is a challenge that can take armies of resource to solve.
Utilising our flexible hardware rules, combined with software compatibility status, Dashworks shows you every organisational asset and its compatibility for the chosen desktop platform. Traffic light status show you not only what is green for go, but also what needs remediating for the amber and red users.
Step 4: Visualise your assets
Our advanced data visualisation brings immediate clarity to your organisational desktop profile. From high level, senior manager views through to individual asset pages, everyone can benefit from the fast, linked information in Dashworks.
Our dashboards enable you to drill down into the detail at ease, slice and dice the information and export key data seamlessly. Result? Advanced desktop management for all areas of the organisation.
Step 5: Manage your migration project schedule
The Dashworks Project Scheduler is a bolt-on module that seamlessly integrates with the Dashworks core system to provide complete transformation project lifecycle.
Your migration project timeline can be forecast by assigning dates to assets, building a complete picture of your program. Assets are intelligently onboarded, organisation defined readiness stages and tasks assigned, and dynamic dashboards built to create an immediate view of migration status.
Project managers can change and update the information at will, all in a centralised system, driving efficiency like never before.
Step 6: Migrate to Windows 7
Now your assets are green to go for migration. Dashworks Project Scheduler helps to manage the entire deployment process.
Our end user agent gives complete visibility into asset readiness and even enables self-service migrations for those users identified as in scope, adding that all important application validation piece to aid software rationalisation. The scheduler tracks forecast, target, scheduled, migrated and completed dates so you can always get a total view of deployment progress.
Our reporting engine enables migration teams to get exactly the information they need to do their jobs. If required, we can even hook into your organisation’s deployment tools to feed back real deployment progress.
