Windows Vista Enterprise: Benefits
Windows Vista Enterprise helps global organizations and businesses with complex IT infrastructures lower IT costs, reduce risk, and stay connected. The premium edition of Windows Vista for businesses, Windows Vista Enterprise includes all the features in Windows Vista Business plus extra capabilities designed to help reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and managing corporate PCs. It provides higher levels of data protection, easier application management, and improved standardization for global operations. Windows Vista Enterprise also offers stronger data protection for a growing, mobile workforce, including more protection of sensitive data in the event a mobile PC is lost or stolen.
Windows Vista Enterprise gives your business an advantage by empowering your most valuable asset—people. The operating system makes it easy for people to communicate, collaborate, and work with greater efficiency and effectiveness, regardless of their location. And Windows Vista Enterprise enhances your organization's ability to find, use, and secure data, meet complex regulatory requirements, and manage information technology costs. It's the heart of any competitive organization's IT desktop investment.
With Windows Vista Enterprise, your company can:
Improve security and compliance
Protecting your business information and complying with rules for business transparency can greatly increase the demands on your IT infrastructure. With Windows Vista, sophisticated data protection and auditing capabilities help simplify IT management and reduce costs for regulatory compliance. And Windows Vista helps organizations create a more controlled information environment so that managing security risks becomes a routine part of business.
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Optimize your desktop infrastructure
Every day more and more demands are made on your IT systems, but that doesn't have to increase your IT expense. Windows Vista is designed to be less expensive to deploy, maintain, and manage—supporting employee productivity and providing a better return on your IT investment.
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Find and use information
The way people find and use information can be critical to the success of your business. Windows Vista dramatically improves how people access and leverage the knowledge and resources within your organization. The operating system helps people find and use information quickly, easily, and more securely and in more places—including their PCs, e-mail, corporate servers, and the Internet.
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Enable your mobile workforce
Today, more businesses rely on a mobile workforce to serve their customers and reduce enterprise costs associated with a large onsite staff. Windows Vista gives mobile workers more secure and versatile ways to access company resources so they can easily collaborate with colleagues, on and off the company network, and across geographic boundaries.
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Learn how desktop optimization with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack can streamline your business, reduce cost, and increase security.
For enterprise early-adopter customers, there are two new options for centralizing Windows execution or storage. Learn more about them in the Flexible Desktop Computing overview.
View Case Studies to learn how other companies have minimized business costs and maximized the value of their Windows investment.
For more detailed information, see the Windows Vista TechCenter.
Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.
