Make more informed decisions. Deliver value-driven desktop transformation.

If you are conducting a desktop transformation project of any kind, let Centrix WorkSpace help you make the right decisions and ensure you get the most value from your desktop and application investments.

Whether a standard hardware refresh, virtualizing applications, creating virtual desktops or an operating system migration, having data and metrics on your current computing environment is essential for supporting early stage analysis, business case development, technology selection and deployment.

• Why would you want to virtualize an application that no one is using?
• Why would you pay for support and maintenance on applications and devices that are not being utilized?
• Can your environment be more energy efficient?
• What are the economics of using an external service or cloud application?
• How will an organizational change affect service delivery?

By using Centrix WorkSpace solutions throughout your desktop transformation project, from initial analysis and technology evaluation to design and delivery, you have the insight and delivery capabilities you need to make the right strategy, planning, sourcing and deployment decisions for your organization.

How our solutions help desktop transformation

• Windows 7/OS migration
  • Establish a catalog of existing applications deployed quickly and easily
  • Understand how applications are being used, when, how and by whom
  • Define priorities for application re-engineering and re-packaging efforts
  • Optimize delivery technology choices based on usage e.g. base image versus streamed
  • Determine suitability of endpoints for hosting new OS and best fit device options – mobile, fat or thin clients
• Hardware refresh
  • Establish a catalog of existing endpoint devices deployed quickly and easily
  • Understand how devices are being used, when, how and by whom
  • Determine suitability of endpoints for hosting new OS and best fit device options – mobile, fat or thin clients
  • Optimize the balance of usage of laptop versus tablets versus desktops
• Desktop & application virtualization
  • Establish a catalog of existing applications deployed quickly and easily
  • Understand how applications are being used, when, how and by who
  • Establish average and peak concurrency of individual applications across the estate
  • Blend vendor (e.g. Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Quest) and technology (e.g. VDI, application virtualization, streamed etc.) choices to optimize virtualization
  • Define user profiles and application templates
  • Determine suitability of endpoints and best fit device options – mobile, fat or thin clients
  • Optimize balance of usage of laptop versus netbooks versus desktops
  • Understand the relative TCO of current and future state
• Application licensing
  • Establish a catalog of existing applications deployed quickly and easily
  • Understand how applications are being used, when, how and by whom
  • Discover unused and under-utilized applications
  • Re-allocate licenses to areas of need and pool surplus for new requirements
  • Remediate unused instances of applications to reduce patch management burden and reduce OPEX spend on software support and maintenance
  • Establish average and peak concurrency of individual applications across the estate
  • Leverage usage information in negotiations of new license agreements and re-negotiations/true-ups and true-downs of existing frameworks
  • Leverage usage and inventory information during software vendor license audits

Align new application and desktop platforms to user requirements

Centrix WorkSpace iQ also helps desktop and application teams tailor new platform and infrastructure investments such as desktop virtualization and OS-upgrades to exact user requirements.

• Use Centrix WorkSpace iQ to create user templates that define application sets for individual and groups of users
• Get deeper insight into your end-user computing environment to assess potential impact of technology change on infrastructure and capacity planning