Moving to Windows 7?

This computing.co.uk article is interesting reading for both those already planning for the move to Windows 7 and those who have not yet considered it.

According to the author, Barry Angell, research organisation Gartner has predicted the cost of migration to be upwards of £930 per upgrade.


''At the heart of the problem is the seemingly archaic approach adopted by organisations to preparing for migration. Why are companies with leading-edge technology implementations, supporting multi-billion pound businesses, reliant on just a handful of project managers squabbling over spreadsheets? By relying on spreadsheet-based information, this process could take as long as 18 months. Add in the further two years to undertake the actual migration process for several thousand laptops and desktops and the deadline is looming fast.
These organisations have typically invested heavily in business intelligence and data warehousing to transform business insight and drive excellent real-time decision making. Applying that same technology to a desktop migration process can transform the time and cost associated with the move to Windows 7.''


ChangeBASE couldn't agree more! 


If your organisation is considering how best to manage the migration process, whether it be in a move to Windows 7 or a virtual platform, check out how ChangeBASE's automation of application compatibility testing and remediation can make your project faster, simpler and less costly.

Please click here to read more: 

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2083810/moving-windows-leave-harder-itll 

TechWorld Awards ChangeBASE’s ‘AOK Browse-It’ as the Enterprise Application of the Year

TechWorld Awards ChangeBASE’s ‘AOK Browse-It’ as the

Enterprise Application of the Year

ChangeBASE voted best in class at key award show

LONDON – 30^th June 2011 – ChangeBASE, the world leader in automated application compatibility testing and remediation, today announced that AOK Browse-It has been voted as the 'Enterprise Application of the Year' at the 2011 TechWorld Awards. The awards, which recognise excellence and innovation in the networking sector, are one of the most prestigious accolades on the IT calendar.

ChangeBASE’s AOK Browse-It product was chosen as the leading product by respected industry experts such as: Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini and Douglas Hayward, Research Director of analyst firm IDC. The judges awarded the title to ChangeBASE for the innovative nature of its AOK Browse-It product and the company’s work in automatically identifying organisations’ browser and web application compatibility issues over the past year.

Receiving the award Martin Brown, VP Worldwide Sales, ChangeBASE commented: "We faced fierce competition in the category. To be nominated and then to win one of the most prestigious awards of the night is a real success in itself. Although TechWorld presented the award to me - I would like to dedicate the win to the whole ChangeBASE team who have been amazing."  

 “I feel the win mirrors the response we have had from the market this year and how the sector is developing. The enterprise application estate has changed drastically over the past few years. Today, the vast majority of applications being deployed in enterprises are internet based. AOK Browse-It helps organisations migrate to the latest browsers (including IE8/9) effortlessly. The product allows us to help organisations save hundreds of thousands of pounds and months of testing,” concluded Brown.

About ChangeBASE:

ChangeBASE AOK is the market leader in automated compatibility software enabling organizations to simplify and speed up the time it takes to test, remediate and manage the migration process between operating systems or deployment environments. The company has developed a suite of software applications which bring tangible benefits and reduced costs to organisations across the globe.

For further information, please contact:
Kate Hyslop / Emma Bridgeman
Rocket PR
Tel: 08453 707 024
Email: changebase@rocketcomms.net

ChangeBASE AOK wins Techworld "Enterprise Application" award....

http://news.techworld.com/networking/3288763/techworld-awards-winners-announced/

An interesting video covering Fujitsu's VCS Solution

Tony Cox talks about Fujitsu's VCS solution and how it leverages several Citrix Ready technologies from Fujitsu, AppSense, ChangeBASE, and Microsoft:
http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/4144

Windows 7 plugins: Improvements are on the way…

Here’s some news which existing AOK users will definitely be interested in. We’ve been working hard to improve the “UAC File Header Analysis” plugin. This looks for files in Windows 7 which will trigger a UAC prompts which in most cases will be undesirable, and prevent the application from running for non-admin users. In our updated version of this plugin we’ll be reporting this issue in a more sophisticated way where we can list multiple file header issues for the same file in a single issue. This means that we’re giving more accurate results as you only see one issue per file, instead of multiple issues for the same file. Look out for this in the coming weeks…

Mobile and Technology News

Here's the final part of this edition of Carl's Industry Newsletter.

Mobile News

Microsoft have published a guide to help Android developers move to Windows Phone.

Windows Phone’s market share continues to plummet.

After last month’s rumour that Microsoft may buy Nokia, Samsung are rumoured to be considering the purchase too, while poaching their engineers.

HTC’s sales figures for May were $1.42 billion, doubling last year’s figure.

Technology News

We are mentioned in The Register in an article about patch management (thanks ML).

If you have any content for the next newsletter, feel free to comment!

Office, Cloud and Internet Explorer News

Here's the next section of Carl's Industry Newsletter. 

Office News

Microsoft have revealed that “business customers are deploying Office 2010 five times faster than they deployed Office 2007.”

Cloud News

Apple have launched iCloud, their version of SkyDrive. You will be able to sync 5Gb of music and data to their servers, kept here, unless you’re running XP.  Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a perfectly designed box. The music you store doesn’t even need to have been purchased from iTunes.

A little cartoon about The Cloud.

Internet Explorer

The conference video “What developers think of Internet Explorer”, now in watchable quality.

Anything to add? We'd love to know your comments!

Kind regards,

The ChangeBASE Team