Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:59
IT Industry -
Market
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“In short, these tools provided by Microsoft give
organisations the ability to test application compatibility ahead of
time, and provide a remediation mechanism should challenges exist.”
Gosling makes the point that respondents to the
survey also wanted to draw on the experiences of others, which he
maintains, suggests that Australian organisations want to reduce risk,
and see some runs on the board before pursuing their own deployment.
The other point Gosling makes is that Data#3 “completely understand the
requirement for evidence and that is why we pushed ahead with our own
deployment.”
“It was important in our minds to deploy these technologies as we would
for our customers. We formed a team, managed the project with effective
project management, developed a detailed communications plan, and used
our lead technical expertise to deliver the solution.”
“Why make a significant investment such as this?” questions Gosling.
For “two reasons,” he maintains – “firstly, our own business case
showed us that the returns available more than justified the investment
and secondly, we wanted to understand the risks and issues that our
customers would face in their deployment of Windows 7. We saw our own
deployment as able to provide us with a unique perspective that would
give our customers confidence and certainty.”
“Rather than take a product demonstration on the road to our key
customers, the sharing of our key lessons learned – our real world
experience - resonated loudly with our customers.”
According to Gosling , “it is evident that there exists a real
conviction to change the experience provided to end users,” and he said
that “the stability of the Beta & Release Candidate builds of
Windows 7 also gave comfort that Windows 7 was on the right path for
enterprise deployment.
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