Research organisation Gartner estimates that there are 300 million
enterprise desktops that still need to be transitioned from Windows XP to
Windows 7 before Microsoft drops support in 2014 - less than 1,000 days. It
goes on to predict the cost of migration to be between $1000 and $1900 per
device.
In a recent business case however, a major financial organisation
produced a return on investment that saved 15% of project cost through using
Juriba Dashworks, when compared to relying on the traditional route of
spreadsheets and extensive resource. When it is considered that this
particular Windows 7 deployment had a budget running into tens of millions
of dollars, this saving was highly significant, and is readily repeatable.
Angell continues, "With limited budget and a fast shrinking team, the
last thing the CIO or IT Director of a large organisation really wants to
deal with is a major desktop transformation project. Desktop migration
history shows that changing the software on the lap & desktops of thousands
of employees, the vast majority of whom cannot function or generate revenue
without them, is a task measured in years that few are likely to consider
with relish. But with Microsoft removing support for Windows XP in 2014,
planning for a desktop transformation project is becoming an increasingly
important consideration."
Software features
Using advanced data warehousing, user-centric profiling, business
intelligence and project scheduling techniques, Juriba's Dashworks can be
summarised as:
- Out-of-the-box data warehousing - providing fast,
agent-less, accurate business aligned user-centric and organisational
ICT desktop and laptop profiling
- Analytics & Rationalisation - acceleration of organisational
Windows 7 migration compatibility analysis and software asset
rationalisation to accelerate project quick wins in comparison to recent
desktop migration history
- Project deployment readiness - provides a single version of
project truth for clear scheduling of end-to-end Windows 7 migration
management.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in London, with employees spread
across the UK. Over the last three years, Juriba has implemented and
developed its Dashworks desktop transformation software solution for over
500,000 end users in countries worldwide, including the UK and USA.
Pricing and availability
The product is launched with immediate availability. Pricing is based
upon market prices of desktop migration history and the number of thousands
of users being managed and is typically in the range of GBP5-GBP10 per user
per annum.
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About Juriba Limited
Headquartered in London, Juriba is a global developer of business
intelligence solutions designed to revolutionise the management of an
enterprise desktop transformation project such as Windows 7 migration and
desktop virtualisation.
Its flagship product, Dashworks enables organisations to accelerate
desktop transformation projects through agent-less, user-centric
compatibility analysis, and dynamic, multi-phased project delivery
management.
Using advanced data warehousing techniques, Dashworks enables project
managers to quickly build a data driven view of the organisation's users,
computers and applications. Layered business driven feeds provide enhanced
analytics and compatibility analysis, accelerating the project planning
phase and identifying the quick migration wins. Project delivery is
accelerated by building a single version of the truth, utilising a project
scheduling module to dynamically manage asset migration readiness and
deployment.
In recent desktop migration history, Juriba has implemented Dashworks
for over 500,000 end users across the globe, actively managing the desktop
transformation of 200,000 to Windows 7 in 2011.
Customers who have performed a Windows 7 migration include some of the
largest organisations in the world such as JPMorganChase and Fujitsu.
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