Devices and OS

Migrate your estate without the drama.

A migration is the upgrade or replacement of an operating system, hardware or software across your end user estate. On the surface it looks simple. In reality it reaches every member of staff and every technical dependency you have.

The challenge

Why migrations are hard

It is easy to think a migration is just swapping one PC for a newer one, five thousand times over. The reality is a highly complex project that directly and personally affects every member of staff, and often your suppliers and customers too. It has to work around the busyness of the day job, and around every other project and partner that touches your IT.

What makes it complex
Hardware procurement, storage and removal
Software compatibility and the gold build
Software packaging and licences
Security and network capacity
Training and end-user communications
Ways to run it

One approach, three shapes.

Choose the migration that fits where you are.

OS Refresh

Migrate to a new operating system, de-risked by confirming applications work on the new target OS and deploying to early adopters first.

Delivers: 97% of devices migrated, applications tested to the agreed level.

PC Replace

Migrate to new devices, de-risked by testing the build on the new models and deploying to early adopters first.

Delivers: 97% of devices migrated, applications tested to the agreed level.

Evergreen

Keep devices refreshed in line with warranty, so the estate never ages out of support.

Delivers: 97% of devices kept in warranty.

Project at a glance

Scoped clearly, up front.

What is in, what is out and what you get, agreed before anything starts.

What it is
  • Migrate to a new OS or new devices, and keep the estate evergreen, de-risked with application testing and early-adopter rings.
Prerequisites
  • An endpoint management tool such as Microsoft Intune
  • A new OS image ready to deploy
In scope
  • Standard devices across the estate
Out of scope
  • Servers, mobile and kiosk devices
  • Physical handling of stock and devices
  • End-user support and remediation
Deliverables
  • 97% of devices migrated or kept in warranty
  • Applications tested to the agreed level
  • A repeatable process moved into business as usual
How ClearVisibility delivers it

The method, built into the tool.

  • Discovers and reconciles every device, its applications and its warranty automatically.
  • Builds early-adopter and pilot rings so issues surface on a few devices, not thousands.
  • Routes application testing and confirmations to owners through workflow.
  • Rolls out in scheduled waves and tracks progress against the target in live dashboards.
Delivered, then moved to BAU
Scoped up frontTime and outcome agreed
Automated deliveryEvents and workflow
ProgressTracked to target
HandoverContinuous BAU service

Ready to scope it?

We will quantify the project up front, time, outcome and deliverables, before any work begins.