If just thinking about a Windows 7 migration, and bring your own device trends, is migraine-inducing for your IT department, IBM has some pain relief for you.

Whether you have 200 or 200,000 desktops, deciding to establish virtualization, cloud and Windows 7 migration initiatives offers the perfect opportunity to transform to the “new Smart workplace” infrastructure and better meet your employee demands. We can help you plan gradual change reduce time, disruption and costs—and the inevitable headaches that come with change.

Why act now:

• Windows XP SP3 support ends in April 2014
• Average traditional migrations take 12 to 18 months, from information-gathering to engineering and testing to actual pilots and migration
• Tight budgets and demands for faster, more strategic business application delivery

Smart migration and application delivery from IBM

We’ve bundled together a set of planning phases for the workplace transformation that can help you tackle complex enterprise migrations involving:

• Windows XP to Windows 7
• Client virtualization and cloud computing
• Application rationalization, remediation and health check monitoring
• Secure Mobility for mobile workers and professionals
• Integrated service desk and self-service innovation
• End-user virtualization management

With the smart migration and application delivery approach, IBM leverages industry-leading tools, world-class partners and deep expertise in application migration and virtualization combined with years of experience. We can assess your end user computing environment and applications, design the optimal architecture and roadmap, and implement both Windows 7 migration and desktop virtualization simultaneously. So your IT staff can focus on other strategic projects.

The challenges:

• Accurate, in-depth understanding of applications, their usage and compatibility with virtualization and Windows 7
• Lengthy implementation schedules
• In-house skills availability

Next steps:

Start with the hard facts, identified in an IBM comprehensive assessment of your current user, application and infrastructure environment for:

• Client virtualization and cloud computing
• Windows 7 migration
• Application portfolio management and governance refresh

The IBM Approach – methodologies, experience, tools & certifications

• Readiness

  IBM works with you to assess your organization’s risk maturity level, to determine impact on the business.

• Discover

  IBM provides enriched analytic tools that help discover the detailed facts about your current end users and their computing environment and how best to transition this to the new world architecture so your end users do not miss a beat with high performance at the end point. Our data-driven assessments provide accurate user profiles and analyze applications on a variety of platforms for compatibility. We provide an Inventory of hardware and software in the current environment and how end users use them.

• Rationalize

  Which applications and end-user devices will be used in the future? Which will be reused, replaced or discarded? IBM tools and expertise can help you make the right determination.

• Analyze

  An IBM application compatibility and remediation study helps analyze the readiness and discovery results for suitability for virtualization and Windows 7 migration.

• Deploy

  We design end-user device and application delivery and deployment strategies to help you achieve the most cost-effective, least disruptive transition possible.

• Remediate

  Application remediation for the Windows 7 migration, a critical preliminary step, can be made easier with a virtualized environment.

• Capture, migrate and monitor

  We use software to capture end-user policy and personalization information to enable the most appropriate approach to desktop virtualization, as well as a seamless transition to Windows 7 and future operating system upgrades.

  Along with IBM Software Platform Management Services (SPMS), you can monitor costs and risks, and increase uptime with our consistent, global processes.

  • Capture current user “personalities” (favorites, customization, styles and fonts, desktop layout), system administration policies (for printers, security, access, network drives) and data.
  • Migrate data, leveraging IBM expertise and centers of excellence.
  • Roll out new, virtualized device and application infrastructure.
  • Monitor with IBM SPMS to enable metrics, auditing and reporting
• Support

  In addition, IBM End User Support Services can help keep your workers up and running, with self-service portals, global service desks and other ITIL 3 enabled cost-effective support strategies.