Windows 7 enterprise migration software: Dashworks

Windows 7 migration planning is essential for enterprises running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. With Microsoft’s announcement that Windows XP end of support will be April 2014, deferring your organisation’s Windows 7 corporate deployment and desktop rollout strategy is no longer an option.

Windows 7 & desktop virtualisation corporate deployment with Dashworks

For enterprise deployment of Windows 7, the Dashworks software suite from Juriba can substantially reduce the risk, cost, resources and time needed to manage your desktop transformation.

Desktop deployment on a large scale traditionally involves many man years of effort. We know, because we’ve done it. But it doesn’t need to be like this.  Our entire team has lived and breathed desktop migration for years, and we think there is a better way. With over 1,000,000 combined rollouts under our belts, we are delighted to translate our project experience into a software product designed to remove the pain from managing desktop transformation.

Managing Windows 7 & Virtual Desktop Transformation

IT departments have historically managed Windows migrations using a combination of spreadsheets and manual processes. Inefficiencies that drive up cost and create disruption. Dashworks typically reduces this effort by up to 60 per cent. Rather than wasting time manipulating data, and completing repetitive tasks, your project managers are freed to drive the programme forward.

Dashworks users report that the overall cost of a Windows 7 rollout is typically reduced by up to 15 per cent when compared with traditional approaches to Windows migration. But don’t just take our word for it – see for yourself right now how Dashworks can assist your Windows 7 migration planning and project management.

Using Dashworks as a Windows 7 migration tool

Dashworks is an all-in-one Windows 7 application compatibility tool, project management tool and user migration tool. It automates many of the tasks involved in Windows XP migration to Windows 7, and uses our depth of knowledge and experience in application discovery, application compatibility, application rationalization and user migration patterns to accelerate and prioritize all aspects of your project.

Dashworks allows your Windows 7 Project Management Office (PMO) to concentrate on desktop deployment planning services and desktop rollout strategy by automating repetitive tasks, reducing margins for error and minimising disruption. The software analyses users, applications and systems, and monitors project progress in real time.

With Dashworks, you can immediately see which users, computers, departments and locations are ready to migrate to Windows 7, while your project managers have total control over project creation and task management.

Compatible with leading application compatibility softwar

The Dashworks analysis application is an out-of-the-box tool for desktop asset profiling. It integrates readily with leading application discovery and compatibility software from companies like ChangeBASE and App-DNA.

Using user-configurable rules, Dashworks combines this data with other sources of information – including HR directories, hardware inventory and application delivery systems – into a data warehouse with a simple, searchable portal. This in turn provides a definitive and dynamic ‘traffic light’ based Windows 7 migration checklist to guide your projects.

Windows 7 project management

Dashworks’ project system is an optional module that augments the analysis application to track project progress, manage priorities and assign tasks for user migration from Windows XP.

The Dashworks data warehouse is underpinned by an API that not only enables dynamic reporting through standard Excel, Access and SQL tools, but that also allows tasks to be scripted and executed externally for full automation.

Juriba and Windows 7 migration

Juriba is an accredited Microsoft partner focused exclusively on developing market-leading Windows migration project management tools. Over 500,000 users worldwide have already discovered why our software is the best way to project manage Windows 7 migration.