Microsoft Proof of Concept Jumpstart

What is it?

Jumpstart is a 10 day engagement to enable customers to quickly evaluate Microsoft desktop technologies in a controlled environment. Either part or fully funded by Microsoft for software assurance customers, Jumpstart can help you understand how the Windows Optimized Desktop solution can benefit your business: providing users the flexibility they need to be productive anywhere, whilst ensuring IT have the control they need to manage risk and keep costs in line.

What can we offer customers?

Camwood can deliver a tailored Windows 7 Enterprise OS, Office Professional Plus 2010, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), and Internet Explorer ® 8 internet browser rollout in a controlled lab environment. Jumpstart is an exciting way for customers to be ‘hands on’ with the latest Microsoft desktop technologies, and with our extensive desktop transformation and application migration experience, Camwood is perfectly positioned to demonstrate the benefits these technologies can bring to your business.

Optimize Your Desktop Infrastructure While Delivering Greater Flexibility and Control

The Windows Optimized Desktop can help you address these desktop challenges: reduce costs, boost productivity, and manage risk. The PC environment offers one of the most immediate connections between your workforce and both the technology that they use to collaborate and communicate and the information that they seek. By applying technologies and best practices to specific user scenarios, the Windows Optimized Desktop can help you attain the right balance in your desktop infrastructure to empower your employees with the agility and flexibility they need to be productive, while providing IT with the required level of control, manageability, and security.

What Does This Mean For You?

Reducing Costs by Streamlining PC Management

Reduced costs while increasing operational efficiencies.

Improving desktop management practices has been proven to help enterprise customers achieve cost savings of up to hundreds of pounds per PC per year.

Windows 7, Office 2010, and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack make managing and deploying desktops, laptops, and virtual environments far easier, while enabling IT professionals to use the same tools and skills with which they are already familiar. Advanced image management and deployment tools enable them to ease desktop deployments and reduce cost and complexity of managing PCs day-to-day while keeping them up to date.

Making People Productive Anywhere

An optimized desktop infrastructure can lead to greater business continuity, enhanced compliance, and better, more secure access to your network resources.

Help users to access their data and applications anywhere, anytime, while making it easy for IT to provision just the right applications and data to the user.

With Office 2010, your people get a wide range of powerful new ways to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, smartphone or web browser. From insightful updates to Excel®, PowerPoint®, Word and Outlook®, to new server integration capabilities that make it easier for everyone to track, report and share vital information, Office Professional Plus 2010 offers the complete package through familiar, intuitive tools.

Managing Risks through Enhanced Security and Control

With increased security and control, you can increase agility and achieve notable improvements in the speed and responsiveness of your IT services.

Windows 7 adds advanced capabilities for IT to better protect corporate data and enable low-cost compliance. Businesses using Windows 7 Enterprise Edition can have the advantage of using encrypted external thumb drives and hard disks in addition to protecting internal PC hard disks. Enterprises that demand the highest levels of compliance can use applications that are allowed to run on user PCs, providing yet another way to limit the risk of malicious software.

Office 2010 provides innovative business solutions without sacrificing the things critical to your organization’s success, such as maintaining security and compliance.

The PoC Jumpstart solution uses a highly structured approach to demonstrate key deployment concepts, including application compatibility, deployment techniques, virtualization, and Office 2010 deployment.

How It Works

• Fixed-scope (5-100 PCs) and limited-time engagement (typical duration of 10 days) in a non-production controlled environment.

• Implemented in conjunction with your resources (personnel, intellectual investments, and existing infrastructure) when possible to maximize return on investment (ROI).

• Provides decision-making expertise based on technical considerations and an up-to-date Microsoft project roadmap that considers your business and technical requirements.

• Fully funded and available at no cost to you.

PoC Jumpstart Benefits

• Provides you with the opportunity to test the latest features of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Office 2010 and see how Application Virtualization (App-V) can help you meet specific business and IT goals.

• Helps your IT department assess your environment and builds confidence before installing the products in a production environment.

• Defines requirements and success criteria and establishes overall direction, including budget estimation.

• Guides implementation through the use of best practices, product expertise, and implementation experience to ensure higher efficiency.