Today’s rapidly evolving desktop environments demand constant updates and changes to keep them secure, users productive, and businesses competitive. Liquidware’s Adaptive Workspace Management suite covers all phases of desktop changes and management to keep desktop transformations seamless.
Ever-changing business climates have seen budgets continually scrutinized to keep businesses competitive. This paper’s purpose is to inform all desktop management stakeholders at your organization of the quick return on investment (ROI) that your organization can realize when spearheading desktop change and ongoing management with Liquidware solutions. This paper should be considered a companion to Liquidware’s Adaptive Workspace Management ROI calculator.
The driving force for organizations today is digital transformation, propelled by a need for greater innovation and agility across enterprises. The digital life-blood for this transformation remains computers, although their form-factor has changed dramatically over the past decade. Smart devices, including phones, tablets and wearables, have joined PCs and laptops in the daily toolsets used by workers to do their jobs. The data that organizations rely on increasingly comes from direct sources via smart cards, monitors, implants and embedded processors. IoT, machine learning and artificial intelligence will shape the software that workers use to do their jobs. As these “smart” applications change and take on scope, they will increasingly be deployed on cloud infrastructures, bringing computing to the edge and enabling swift and efficient processing with real-time data.
Yet digital transformation for many organizations can remain blocked if they do not start changing how their workspaces are provisioned. Many still rely on outmoded approaches for delivering the technology needed by their workers to make them productive in a highly digital workplace.In this paper, Liquidware presents a roadmap for providing modern workspaces for organizations that are undergoing digital transformation. We offer insights into how our Adaptive Workspace Management (AWM) suite of products can support the build-out of an agile, state-of-the-artworkspace infrastructure that quickly delivers the resources workers need, on demand. AWM allows this infrastructure to be constructed from a hybrid mix of the best-of-breed workspace delivery platforms spanning physical, virtual and cloud offerings.
There’s little doubt we’re in the midst of a change in the way we operationalize and manage our end users’ workspaces. On the one hand, IT leaders are looking to gain the same efficiencies and benefits realized with cloud and next-generation virtual-server workloads. And on the other hand, users are driving the requirements for anytime, anywhere and any device access to the applications needed to do their jobs. To provide the next-generation workspaces that users require, enterprises are adopting a variety of technologies such as virtual-desktop infrastructure (VDI), published applications and layered applications. At the same time, those technologies are creating new and challenging problems for those looking to gain the full benefits of next-generation end-user workspaces.
Before racing into any particular desktop transformation delivery approach it’s important to define appropriate goals and adopt a methodology for both near- and long-term success. One of the most common planning pitfalls we’ve seen in our history supporting the transformation of more than 6 million desktops is that organizations tend to put too much emphasis on the technical delivery and resource allocation aspects of the platform, and too little time considering the needs of users. How to meet user expectations and deliver a user experience that fosters success is often overlooked.
To prevent that problem and achieve near-term success as well as sustainable long-term value from a next-generation desktop transformation approach, planning must also include defining a methodology that should include the following three things:
• Develop a baseline of “normal” performance for current end user computing delivery• Set goals for functionality and defined measurements supporting user experience• Continually monitor the environment to ensure users are satisfied and the environment is operating efficiently
This white paper will show why the user experience is difficult to predict, why it’s essential to planning, and why factoring in the user experience—along with resource allocation—is key to creating and delivering the promise of a next-generation workspace that is scalable and will produce both near-and long-term value.
In this whitepaper you will discover:
Software vendors deliver changes faster than ever, and in a digital workspace, one must identify and resolve problems before impacting the business. It’s crucial to test continuously to reduce risk.
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Read this white paper and learn how:
• Login VSI & Lakeside work together throughout the entire VDI lifecycle• To build and manage ultimate VDI environments with the right tools for the job• Moving from ‘fat’ client models to ‘thin’ client infrastructures can benefit you