MigrateXP

A critical step in the refresh planning is the inventorying of applications. The tools and processes to create inventories for Windows and Office are different and Migrate will provide expert guidance on which tools are best for your organization.

Migrate will explore your environment to better understand your desktop application portfolio using the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 and Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator (MAP).

These powerful tools enable you to collect important information needed to thoroughly plan a migration. Migrate’s specialist can help you with the set up and configuration including populating the customized application entries for internally developed software and lesser known third party applications.

Once the inventory has been completed, the process of analyzing and rationalizing an application portfolio are undertaken. Migration can assist with:
• Defining appropriate categories and prioritizes to facilitate determining appropriate policies
• Coordinating communication strategies between business coordination leads to identify necessary assets
• Applications, drivers, and add-ins no longer needed will be retired to reduce the overall support burden
Your team will have a clearly defined process to assess your asset portfolio and retire assets appropriately. These policy and strategic decisions can save your organization significantly and will need to be vetted throughout the organization.

Testing an asset portfolio is a resource intensive process and requires significant planning to optimize the process. Migrate’s experts understand how to create appropriate testing processes. These steps include:
• Application Compatibility testing includes several different approaches to smoke testing and user acceptance testing
Migrate will assist to develop process map that accounts for all teams and components of the testing effort.

The remediation phase integrates with the testing workflow but includes its own set of challenges. Remediating legacy technologies is a very complex process that relies on understanding what technologies and processes are available. Several of these services include:
• Application portfolio remediation planning to utilize commodity resources if necessary

Remediation planning for these technologies completes the final steps necessary for understanding the end-to-end desktop refresh process steps.

The deployment plan takes into account operating, logistical, financial and strategic considerations for your desktop refresh. The following are areas that are part of the assessment and plan:
• Eligible desktops
• Upgrade / redeployment plans for hardware
• Timeline across organizations / departments / user audiences and geographies
• Budgeting / hardware plans and timing
The culmination of a desktop refresh planning engagement results in a final deployment plan that is prepared for broad signoff.