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Computacenter's advice with the implementation of our end-to-end Citrix infrastructure has been invaluable. The solution has enabled our staff to reap the benefits of secure remote access allowing them to work more flexibly and increase their productivity, whilst enabling the company to lay the foundations for future business initiatives.

Paul Caris
CIO, Eversheds

Computacenter's Workplace Strategy service reviews the impact of future desktop, thin client and virtualisation technologies within your business.

A service component of our Flexible Workplace solution.

What we do

Knowledge Sharing and Vision workshops
We begin by sharing information on industry trends, best practice and new business models. In addition, we facilitate discussions on your issues and preliminary ideas. We work with you to create the preliminary vision, mission and strategic goals in the new environment.

Validation phase
During the validation phase, Computacenter performs a detailed analysis to prioritise strategic issues of:

  • End-user needs
  • Target applications and migration considerations
  • Target infrastructure and transformation issues
  • Business returns and timescales
  • Identification of potential internal barriers to change and adoption

This information is then compiled to produce a strategy definition document, reviewing available technologies and identifying their suitability within your environment. This document includes:

  • Definition of the key success factors
  • Identification of key building blocks/ major projects
  • Creation of a roadmap
  • Technology infrastructure high-level design
  • User assimilation plan
  • Cost range for implementation
  • ROI analysis

How it helps

Computacenter leverages our extensive technology skills with deployment and managed service experience to provide an impartial, pragmatic review. Benefits from engaging our Workplace Strategy include:

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Utilising the right combination of desktop (Thick/Thin/Virtual) and application environments can significantly improve manageability. Support costs for build management, updates, patching and application delivery may be reduced through new technology approaches.

Power Savings: To maximise TCO savings, virtual solutions are often implemented with Thin Client hardware devices. These devices have significantly reduced power requirements over traditional PCs and even with power increases for centralised systems, savings may be achieved.

Flexible Working: Flexible application access allows users to access their working environment from any location, on any workstation. This flexibility allows for secure home working, mobility, off-shoring and business continuity solutions to be implemented. Computacenter's strategy can help quantify the business impact of flexible working, and where it fits into your overall desktop strategy.

Why we are different

Skills
Computacenter's dedicated workplace team has specialist skills across all emerging desktop technology areas. Combined with our desktop transformation skills, engineering, project management, support and training capabilities, we can provide a comprehensive service, from strategy through to deployment.

Track record
Computacenter has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting desktop solutions for many organisations, and can offer advice on application integration, secure remote access, device selection and management of the solution.
Repeatable best practice
The processes developed through Computacenter's Shared Services Factory enable us to share best practice across our customer base, which means you benefit from cost-savings and continuously improved service quality.

Quality of partnership
Computacenter is a vendor-independent organisation with the highest level of accreditations with key players in the desktop market including Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Appsense, Wyse and HP.

Where we have done it

John Lewis Partnership
"Computacenter's help with our virtual desktop strategy was invaluable; their practical and open approach and their ROI modelling tools are realistic and adaptable to our own environment. Working with Computacenter has enabled us to validate our own assumptions and beliefs about desktop virtualisation and helped us focus on the true benefits and how to realise them."
- Gary Hird, Technical Strategy, John Lewis Partnership

What next?

To find out how Computacenter's Workplace Strategy service can help you, please contact your account manager or email enquiries@computacenter.com