Is Your Organization Ready for Vista?

Prepare our Vista assessment provides a custom detailed analysis of your organization’s preparedness to upgrade, and includes a comprehensive gap analysis with recommendations on how to close those gaps. Topics addressed in the assessment include

Hardware Readiness – CalidCo determines if Windows Vista can run and perform on your current install base by:
— Sampling your current hardware inventory
— Assisting you in setting a minimum hardware specification
— Measuring and reporting current inventory against tiered compatibility standards for running    Windows Vista
Software Readiness – CalidCo assesses your application compatibility readiness by:
— Performing Application Compatibility Reporting service on a subset of your applications
— Using discovery tools to catalog a sampling of software titles in your client PC environment
— Advising you on best practices for testing custom applications for Windows Vista compatibility
— Identifying issues on applications that cannot be remediated.

Organizational Readiness – CalidCo helps determine if your organization is ready to deploy Windows Vista by:
— Analyzing your deployment project plan
— Providing guidance on Windows Vista version in relation to your specific licensing and security requirements
— Evaluating your imaging processes and strategy
— Providing template project plan data to use for modeling your own Windows Vista migration
— Advising on appropriate hardware refresh plan based on your Windows Vista deployment needs
End-User Readiness – CalidCo helps determine if your users and policies are ready for Windows Vista by:
— Evaluating your end user and IT professional training plans and recommending effective training strategies
— Advising on desktop management policies and best practices
— Review of Windows Vista features and anticipated impact on end user population
Infrastructure Readiness – CalidCo helps determine if you are ready to deploy and manage Windows Vista by:
— Evaluating ability to manage Windows Vista after the deployment
— Assessing impact of Windows Vista Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and how to take advantage of GPO features
— Determining the impact of Windows Vista data security features on your existing infrastructure
— Evaluating impact of Windows Vista activation process