Desktop Deployment Planning Services

If you have Microsoft Software Assurance purchased on Microsoft Office, you are entitled to Desktop Deployment Planning Services that can be put to work in your business.

Desktop Deployment Planning Service workshops are the first step towards reducing downtime for staff, streamlining deployment and helping to align your desktop management operations with the organisation’s business goals.

Dimension Data, as a globally certified DDPS partner, delivers these services to help extend the business value of your Microsoft Office or Microsoft Windows software upgrade.

Each Desktop Deployment Planning Service workshop is collaborative, comprehensive, and based on best practices directly from Microsoft. At the end of the workshop, you will have received:

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of the technologies you could use to streamline your desktop management
• A comprehensive roadmap and series of cost models for the options at your disposal
• Tuition and expertise from Dimension Data’s leading infrastructure optimisation consultants

Each desktop deployment workshop includes:

• A pre-flight conference call and questionnaire. An experienced consultant will analyse your desktop environment to understand your existing environment and business imperatives.
• An engagement summary and recommendations. Our consultants provide a comprehensive summary of the information covered during your workshop. This will include challenges, links, tools and best practices to help you formulate a desktop deployment plan.
• Cost model summaries. We will examine a number of different desktop deployment scenarios and cost structures based on your budget and infrastructure needs.

The five- and 10-day workshops also include:

• A proof-of-concept lab. Our staff will put together a working model of the proposed solution in your technology environment. You will gain hands-on experience of the technologies and learn how they could help you streamline desktop management in your organisation.

Benefits include:

• Higher usage and productivity
• Increased operational agility
• A lower cost infrastructure
• Improved return on software investment
• Prepare infrastructure for new software (Windows Vista™ and Office 12)
• Increased remote support with lower manual administration

Dimension Data’s Desktop Deployment Planning Services workshops are part of a suite of professional and managed services that minimise the effort and costs associated with desktop lifecycle management.