Posted by: kurtsh | April 7, 2011

WHITEPAPER: Understanding the Benefits of Upgrading to Windows 7

clip_image002New whitepaper that goes over the business level benefits of Windows 7:

Understanding the Benefits of Upgrading to Windows 7

The phone rings at 1:00 A.M., waking an IT professional with a call from the company’s key salesperson who is on the road in Asia. She needs access to confidential application data stored on the server back at headquarters. It’s an issue every enterprise faces—how can people be more connected from the road, without sacrificing the needed level of security?

How many times has this happened to you? What else keeps you up at night? Businesses need technology that helps people work better, but IT departments must balance end user flexibility with

tighter management of the infrastructure, data, and applications. This challenge is complicated by several additional forces competing for your time, attention, and resources: managing costs, planning for contingencies, and ensuring compliance with evolving industry and regulatory requirements. Exactly how well companies handle these forces in the context of their unique computing needs ultimately defines their efficiency, user productivity, and overall effectiveness.

Meeting both IT and end user needs in today’s business environment can be challenging. The Windows® Optimized Desktop relieves the common tension between end users and IT by providing the mobility and flexibility end users want while preserving the security and control that IT professionals need. The Windows Optimized Desktop—which incorporates Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2, System Center, and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)—helps organizations transform their desktop infrastructure from a cost center to a business enabler by helping IT make people productive anywhere, manage risks through enhanced security and control, and reduce costs by streamlining PC management. The investments in Windows 7 Enterprise have been shaped by the evolving needs of end users and IT professionals in the enterprise.

This paper explores the questions organizations should consider as they plan for desktop infrastructure that can help them better address client computing challenges. First, it takes a closer look at the issues many enterprise organizations face today, with questions in the first four sections to guide you in a desktop capability assessment for your own organization. Then, later in the paper, you’ll learn how Windows 7 Enterprise can help address the challenges you face.

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