Desktop transformation project planning for Windows 7 rollout

What is ‘desktop business intelligence’, and how does it help enterprise Windows 7 migrations?

Juriba’s Dashworks software suite brings analysis, metrics and reporting to make your Windows 7 desktop transformation project strategy faster, easier to manage and with less risk. Its advanced techniques provide true ‘desktop business intelligence’.

For decades now, desktop operations and project managers have been faced with multiple point solutions in their organisation. User directories, software distribution systems, software usage systems, hardware inventory systems, HR information, and application workflow systems are just a few examples.

As a result, managing a major desktop transformation can be a complex task. Organisations typically have all the data they need for migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, but it is not in one place. This makes the standard project processes of discovery, inventory, rationalise, build, ready, deploy and operate particularly hard to achieve.

While in other areas of your business, data analytics tools are helping your organisation make faster, better-informed decisions, Windows 7 project and program managers are typically forced into creating their own data, often in huge, separate spreadsheets or basic databases, adding cost, time and risk into desktop migration projects.

When one of Microsoft’s technology account managers stated that “Dashworks is business intelligence for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)” he wasn’t far off. With Dashworks, Windows 7 user migration can be achieved safely in a way that sidesteps manula processes.

How desktop business intelligence helps your enterprise Windows 7 deployment project plan

In summer 2011, Microsoft conservatively put the number of enterprise desktops still on Windows XP at 300 million, with just 1,000 days remaining on extended support. Clearly it will not going to be easy to plan projects for mass deployment to Windows 7 on this scale and, without a doubt, your organisation’s next enterprise desktop rollout project will be complex.

Understanding the scope of your migration is difficult enough. Taking the next step to analyse compatibility in the live environment is even more challenging. That’s where Dashworks’ desktop business intelligence comes into its own.

Dashworks will help you prioritise users, computers, applications, departments and locations, analyse project task impact among your forecast schedule, and design your end-to-end migration readiness process.

Dashworks has been built to help you, whether you are a program manager, project manager, business contact, UAT tester, desktop engineer, applications manager, deployment manager, infrastructure manager or communications manager. It provides discovery, inventory, analysis, process, readiness, deployment and operations all rolled into one, delivering a single, dynamic version of project truth for your Windows 7 rollout plan.

Dashworks desktop business intelligence in action

For desktop transformation projects, Dashworks doesn’t just help to profile everything about your desktop environment – it works with you to help focus your efforts on achieving the most efficient Win 7 deployment process.

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