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If you have decided to upgrade your IT infrastructure, you face a number of practical issues. You need to make the business case for investment to the board, but calling in the management consultants is likely to be expensive. On the other hand, if you approach vendors directly to make the case for you, their conclusions are likely to have little credibility given their own vested interests.
However, there is a ‘middle way’ - to use a business partner that will apply a set of independent tools and techniques to assess the potential value of an upgrade to your organisation. Computacenter calls this the Business Value Assessment (BVA) and it provides a 360-degree assessment that shows the cost of an infrastructure upgrade, with the predicted return on investment over a set period.
Once the board is convinced of your argument, you then need to implement the new infrastructure as rapidly and with as little disruption as possible. Computacenter again can help, and has now formalised the various upgrade elements into a solution it calls Rapid Desktop Migration. Using this kind of third-party service means that customers benefit from the combined experience of many previous customers’ deployments and migrations to achieve a low-risk, cost-effective upgrade.
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