Microsoft Partners

1E is a world leader in the field of Microsoft Management technologies, excelling in providing visibility and control of Windows environments. 1E is Microsoft's lead EMEA Windows Management partner, a Microsoft Global SMS 2003 and MOM 2005 launch partner. View our extensive customer references at www.1e.com/customers.

1E provides a unique dual offering surrounding the Microsoft Windows Management space: software solutions that deliver true business intelligence and complete infrastructure management, and exceptional Professional Services by globally-recognised experts.

These specialist areas include:

•SMS – Systems Management Server. A comprehensive solution for change and configuration management, enabling organisations to deploy relevant software and patches to users.
•OSD FP – Operating System Deployment Feature Pack. A Microsoft add-on to SMS, enabling the migration of desktop and server operating systems, user data and user settings.
•BDD – Business Desktop Deployment Enterprise Edition. A Microsoft framework which provides a methodology and tools for desktop deployment and migration.

1E’s enhances and extends the Microsoft technologies listed above, satisfying specific client requirements. This has enabled us to create intelligent, leading-edge deployment software solutions that meet real-world challenges and provide a realistic picture of IT business service health.

Our deployment and migration solutions are elegantly simple in design, ensuring cost-effectiveness and ease of maintenance. These include successful branch office deployment; automated overnight application deployment and migrations; and user-initiated deployments and migrations.

Our holistic approach delivers complete lifecycle and infrastructure agility, maximising and leveraging return on investment.

For more information, please contact Charlotte Mathie at charlottem@1e.com or see http://www.1e.com/Consultancy/WindowsDeployment/Index.aspx

Capgemini offers a range of "Technology Refresh" services, based on demonstrating and delivering a reduction in the TCO of deploying and managing a Microsoft client and server infrastructure. Options include both building systems to be run by the existing internal IT department or building and having Capgemini operate those systems as an outsourcer.

One of the key Capgemini principles is to design both processes and technology to prevent new support incidents and automate their resolution as well as empower users with a "self-service" capability based upon the Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator Enterprise Edition and a set of Capgemini tools for services like automated password reset and trouble ticketing.

Specific deployment services include:-

•Building the investment business case using independent TCO tools
•Identifying opportunities to add value to customer business processes using Microsoft technology
•Infrastructure Architecture and design
•Project and Programme Management
•Standard build design
•Server Consolidation and virtualisation
•Application remediation
•Application packaging
•Managed Print Services
•Automated deployment
•Asset lifecycle management
•Migration from non-Microsoft systems
•Upgrades of Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003
•Automation of alerting and systems management (using MOM and SMS)
•Helpdesk processes

Capgemini have successfully delivered these services into UK customers like Price Waterhouse Coopers, Renault, Corus and London Borough of Croydon.

Contact David Leadbeater at david.leadbeater@capgemini.com or Mark Walker at mark.walker@capgemini.com for more information.

Centrix is a leading independent consultancy that brings together the best of business, service and technology to create lasting value for its clients. Companies appoint Centrix for a wide range of engagements, including technology consolidation, managed and shared services, offshore outsourcing and services aggregation. Centrix has specialist skills simplifying the desktop through a best-placed hybrid approach and delivering applications via the web or a server-based computing environment. It has built an enviable reputation for leveraging IT to deliver business and service improvements for clients.

www.centrix.co.uk

Computacenter is Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. To help our customers maximise the value of IT to their businesses, we offer services at every stage of infrastructure investment. This means we can offer a true end-to-end approach - from advising customers on their IT strategy and implementing appropriate technology solutions to managing elements of the IT infrastructure on their behalf.

Computacenter has worked with Microsoft for many years. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an accreditation only awarded to Microsoft partners that have proven levels of competence for their people, their processes and their services. In particular, Computacenter is Microsoft's preferred partner for XP deployments, where we have shown that we can successfully establish a sound business case for the operating system as well as manage large multi-site roll-outs.

For example, in delivering our Business Value Assessment service, Computacenter consultants work closely with Microsoft and Cranfield University to clearly articulate the strategic business benefits of XP investments to senior management and the Board.

Once the investment has been agreed, our Rapid Desktop Migration (RDM) service can drastically reduce desktop delivery times for Windows XP, to as little as under 30 minutes per workstation.

Computacenter's numerous successful Windows XP implementations include:
45,000 seats for a large investment bank
25,000 seats for a major international retail bank
14,000 seats for a leading mobile operator

Please visit www.computacenter.com for more information.

ComputerLand is a Microsoft Gold Partner with a strong track record of successful desktop migrations and deployments. The company offer managed implementation solutions that will enable you and your users to realise the management and productivity benefits of Windows XP and Office 2003 - without experiencing the pain of transition.

Its services include project management, consultancy, design, implementation and training and are underpinned by ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) compliant, MOF (Microsoft Operational Framework) and ISO 9001 procedures, all supported by PRINCE 2 project management.

ComputerLand is a major national IT solution provider and focuses on the provision of essential IT services to medium & large organisations. The Company combines its own expertise and experience with products from the leading technology manufacturers to provide IT solutions that enhance clients’ performance.

ComputerLand holds high level technical accreditations from some of the world’s leading IT manufacturers, was one of the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partners in the UK and is perfectly positioned to help you understand the best way of managing your migration.

www.computerland.co.uk
South – 020 7638 5151
Midlands – 0115 931 8000
North – 0161 872 8727
Public sector – 0870 240 7317

Eurodata Systems has developed a highly effective Desktop Deployment Strategy (DDS) that ensures that desktop transitions can be completed rapidly and can deliver the promised benefits reliably and in an agreed timeframe. Not only does the Eurodata strategy cater for organisations of all sizes, but – crucially – it establishes mechanisms that enable both the maintenance and refreshing of the desktop on an ongoing basis.

Eurodata has defined and developed significant enhancements to Microsoft’s Light- and Zero-Touch Installation (LTI/ZTI) concepts, simplifying the deployment and provisioning of new desktop infrastructures. Eurodata’s DDS is a low-cost and low-risk solution that combines Eurodata’s proven project methodology with the most advanced tools for automating desktop deployments. Furthermore, Eurodata has created DDS to suit organisations of any size by creating two offerings: Desktop Deployment Strategy Standard and Enterprise.

The Standard Eurodata DDS offering is targeted at companies that want to reduce deployment time and effort by increasing the level of automation involved in desktop deployment. The Standard solution allows administrators to deploy desktops using Lite-Touch Installation at the target PCs.

The Eurodata DDS Enterprise offering is a strategy for desktop deployment that employs sophisticated tools and requires an advanced systems management product such as Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. The Enterprise solution is suitable for organisations that wish to increase the level of deployment automation to very high levels. The Enterprise solution allows administrators to deploy desktops using Zero-Touch Installation (ZTI).

Both strategies help organisations to move to a managed environment that utilise standardised desktop images.
For further information please
Visit www.eurodatasystems.com
Call: 020 7619 1500

Getronics world leading Rapid Deployment eXperience, (RDX), solution offers cost effective and risk free migrations and deployments by integrating Microsoft’s Business Desktop Deployment, (BDD) tools, together with those developed by Getronics to achieve the ultimate in Risk free “Zero Touch” deployments.

Getronics has achieved wins in all continents since launching its globally consistent solutions framework alongside of Microsoft, proving the ability to Rapidly transform desktop environments, without business impact, and whilst preserving the data and personality of the machine.

The solution framework offers highly automated “Discovery”, “Project Management” and “Deployment” as an integrated toolset, surrounded by the full range of services required to design and deliver the new desktop, this includes applications testing and packaging, generation of the new COE image, standard infrastructure solutions, (e.g. SMS), security assessment and network assessment and design.

With its Global presence Getronics offers options of “near” and “far” shore solutions, for example for applications testing and packaging all from within Getronics experienced full time resource.

The solution framework and toolset is now able to offer the same rapid, cost effective and risk free deployment, migration and consolidation eXperience within the dispersed server environment.

Following deployment Getronics offers a range of ongoing management solutions, ranging from base functions, (e.g. anti-virus & patch management) to competitive outsource solutions. Getronics also offers to enable internal customer support teams to support the new environment by advising on “Best Practice” and training internal teams.

For more information please visit WWW.Getronics.com

Hewlett Packard’s scale and relationship with Microsoft make it the world’s leading authority on manufacturing, deployment and management of Microsoft based IT Infrastructures. Its broad range of Products, Services, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships make it the ideal partner for Enterprises both large and small when considering Microsoft based projects.

As a Worldwide Prime Integrator for Windows® XP and Microsoft Global Services Partner of the Year 2003, HP is uniquely placed to help organisations deploy Windows XP quickly and cost-effectively. Whether you need hints and tips on planning your migration or complete project management, you can rely on HP to save you time and money.

For more than two decades, HP and Microsoft executives, engineers, sales and service professionals have collaborated to drive the adoption of industry-standard technologies to create reliable, adaptive IT infrastructures.

Organisations all over the world choose HP because our expertise and experience help them implement integrated technology solutions that are simple to deploy, highly available and include world-class service on demand.

For more details of how HP can help make your move to Windows® XP a hassle-free experience, now or in the future, please visit - www.hp.com/uk/businesssolutions

Infosys is a leading Consulting and IT services major, providing predictable solutions to the world’s leading organisations. Infosys is a partner endorsed by Microsoft for XP Deployment. Their proven delivery capabilities and track record stand testament to the solution - "Accelerate".

'Accelerate' – redefines the business case for XP Deployment by deploying desktops effectively, predictably, within budget, on-time and with minimal (if any) loss in productive hours of the user. Accelerate is built on their proprietary Global delivery model that enables them to break the traditional deployment barriers by using their offshore presence and associated time zone differences as enablers rather than constraints.

Proprietary methodologies ("Zero Touch") a plethora of proprietary tools (Office Remediation, Deployment dashboard etc.,) have ensured their track record of highly predictable deployments- sample engagements include:

•A large investment bank in UK - Migration of 9000+ Desktops and 2000+ servers from NT to Win2K at various locations in EMEA and APAC
•A large financial services company in UK - Server migration and application migration to Windows 2003 in 3 regions spread across EMEA and APAC
•A large Bank in the US - OS2 to XP migration for approximately 65,000 desktops spread across all the regions in US

Please visit www.infosys.com for more information.

Since 1996 we have successfully deployed or helped to migrated hundreds of thousands of users across the whole range of Microsoft product versions. All of these activities are executed by a team of professionals, whose experience spans a variety of desktops as well as server and mail system migrations, covering mid-tier corporate enterprises to global and mega-global company migrations.

ioko is the only UK based Service Integration company which holds 6 or Microsoft competencies at Gold Level. Having a large pool of fully certified professionals to call upon enables ioko to focus on all aspects of the project: from inception through to support and typically onto subsequent reengagement. ioko can provide these services across a range of implementations and solutions drawing on a large team of individuals with experience in the latest MS Servers and Development technologies. We also have experience of managing Microsoft solutions post delivery and know how these systems are used in practice and how they evolve over their lifetime.

We run several organisations infrastructure and application end-to-end and 24x7, this can be from the network and operating system right up to and deep into the application itself. We can refresh or perform consolidation of existing IT infrastructures from server-to-desktop. We employ a proven project methodology, benchmarked tools and skilled and experienced resources to deliver a smooth and painless migration in a way that works whether you want to outsource the task or just need some help for your internal team.

www.ioko.com

LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT services and wireless telecoms. It provides management and IT consultancy, systems integration and outsourcing services to clients across diverse markets including telecoms, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector. Formed in December 2002, through the merger of Logica and CMG, the company employs around 20,000 staff world (approximately 6,500 in UK) and has nearly 40 years of experience in IT services.

Headquartered in London, LogicaCMG is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK and a number of other countries. LogicaCMG is uniquely positioned in the UK as perhaps the largest and most experienced, UK-centric, systems integrator on the Microsoft platform.

LogicaCMG has built a reputation for managing complex programmes and a track record of delivering on-time and on-budget. LogicaCMG’s key technical strength is in developing innovative business applications and integrated solutions that address specific industry challenges. Microsoft technology is LogicaCMG’s preferred delivery platform and constitutes the largest capability within our UK technical community.

Please visit www.logicacmg.com/uk for market-specific information and details of our business solutions.

Connected Business Desktop: empowering staff, improving the business

Solution
Lynx Technology’s Connected Business Desktop (CBD) is a packaged solution for deploying Microsoft XP SP2 and Office 2003. It is focused on the successful planning, deployment and operation of an end-to-end business desktop deployment. Lynx CBD translates to your desktop environment and the configuration of a rich client providing a secure and manageable platform to access business information and services. Our approach includes:

•Business case and justification
•Team definition
•Application compatibility testing
•Infrastructure readiness
•System imaging
•Application packaging
•User state migration
•Security and lockdown
•Deployment mechanism
•Operational readiness
•Microsoft Office upgrade
•Provisioning

We follow best practice and deliver effective and aligned business desktop solutions and support. Our starting point is to understand your needs, balancing the value and cost with the expected benefits and potential risks, unlocking the power of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Office System for your organisation.

We have successfully deployed Connected Business Desktop for various commercial and public sector organisations – case studies available on request.

Credentials
Our Value Consulting approach draws on our unique Customer Innovation Centre facility and programme: bespoke Strategy Briefings; Architectural Design Workshops; Technology Roadmaps and Planning; and Proof of Concept. See www.customerinnovationcentre.com

Lynx is a Microsoft Gold Partner with competencies in Advanced Infrastructure, Information Worker Productivity and Security Solutions. As a leading IT services provider, our solutions portfolio covers Advanced Infrastructure, Productivity and Collaboration, Integrated Communications, Security and Managed Support. For more information email enquiries@lynxtec.com or call us 0870 990 7027

www.lynxtec.com

Pygmalion has a 10 year working relationship with Microsoft and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Information Worker Solutions and Learning Solutions. As a Microsoft specialist organisation, Pygmalion possesses some of the most experienced and qualified technical experts available.

Quality and process driven, the company uses ITIL best practices and ISO 9001:2000 quality procedures. As a result, Pygmalion has a record for delivering consistent, high quality services and solutions to its customers and has an excellent reputation within the marketplace.

The Infrastructure and Management team offer a range of services and solutions to help organisations up-date infrastructure & desktop technology using well tried & tested best practices & tools to give:

•Low cost updates
•Quick & minimal disruption updates
•Best available security
•Lowest TCO from ease of support and manageability

For more information or to schedule a meeting with a Pygmalion consultant please contact us:
Tel: 020 7680 9599
E-mail: consulting@pygmalion.com
Visit our website: www.pygmalion.com

Ramesys aims to empower customers to use technology to gain maximum benefits. And we strive to advise you on the most appropriate and effective solution for your needs, before implementing and supporting those solutions to meet your expectations.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner since the scheme began, with competencies in Advanced Infrastructure, Information Worker and Security Solutions, Ramesys is unique in its specialist knowledge and understanding of diverse vertical sectors including Education, Construction, Food & Retail, Hospitality, Travel, Legal and Commercial.

Ramesys are experts in large-scale multi-site Microsoft implementations and can deliver desktop deployment services as a stand-alone solution, or as part of a wider technology project. We can offer a complete service to the desktop and extending out to mobile users, taking into consideration your communication, network performance and security requirements.

A deployment project can include the following services:

•Active Directory and Windows migration consultancy to ensure a design that fits your business structure, culture and processes
•Professional project management to manage change and to control budget and timescales
•Proven deployment processes and experienced engineers to minimise disruption
•Specialised software to migrate users’ desktop preferences to smooth the transition experience
•Hardware and software support, including short-term user support following deployment to minimise the calls logged with your IT team
•A range of training courses to ensure your employees get the most from their new desktop

For more details and to discuss your technology requirements, contact Ramesys:
Tel: 0115 971 2069
Email: jenny.teasdale@ramesys.com
www.ramesys.com

New tools that reduce the time and cost of desktop deployment programmes

For many years, Servo has assisted customers with large scale deployment programmes providing services that range from proof of concept and application packaging, through to delivery-to-desk and remote support.

As a Gold Certified Partner, Servo has worked closely with Microsoft to develop new tools and processes that accelerate and simplify desktop deployment programmes. For example, these include:

•Application compatibility toolkits that can automate the process of auditing your estate and identifying potential ‘problem’ applications.
•Application packaging solutions that can be delivered for a fixed price and within set time scales.
•Management tools that help you control the desktop post-deployment – preventing the deterioration that often leads to security breaches and increased support instances.

Servo’s Early Adopter Programme is underway, and by the summer we expect to make these tools widely available.

Contact us to discuss how we can reduce the time and cost of your deployment.

Telephone 01629 832 111 and ask to speak to Amie Pitt (amie.pitt@servo.co.uk) who will direct your call to one of our consultants. Or visit us at www.servo.co.uk.

Silversands specialises in providing enterprise and collaboration solutions with expertise based upon Microsoft technologies. We are a Certfied Gold Partner with competencies in advanced infrastructure, collaboration and security. Our experience in providing client focused solutions which reduce IT complexity and increase business communication has been delivered to clients across the world.

Our knowledge of the Microsoft solution set ensures we deploy technology quickly, effectively and with minimal disruption to your business. Our in-depth experience of enabling change within businesses, whilst maintaining business standards for deployment, product selection and security, has allowed Silversands Deployment Services to add great value to our clients ability to bring about change more effectively. These key services include:

•Assessment of the desktop estate for automated deployment
•Standardisation and automation of the common desktop using imaging and scripting tools
•Migration and conversion of the application estate to latest version
•Full project management to control the business change and technical deployment
•Full outsourcing of the desktop estate
•Assessment of Active Directory design and deployment, to ensure key features and standards are used in reducing complexity and management whilst increasing security of the enterprise estate
•For more information please contact Peter Mercieca at 01202 360000 or dlm@silversands.co.uk, or visit www.silversands.co.uk

Syntax Integration is an industry leading IT solution and outsourcing organisation with 15 years' experience of helping companies gain maximum benefit from their technology investments. Syntax is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competency in Advanced Infrastructure, Networking Infrastructure Solutions and Security Solutions. Syntax provides high quality, standards based solutions that are developed and delivered in accordance with Prince II, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practice and ISO9001:2000 quality systems.

Syntax has a wealth of experience in helping companies deploy desktop and server technology and has developed a series of solutions based upon a “risk free” approach that helps companies achieve and maintain operational efficiency.

Syntax deployment services include:

•Project and program management
•Application auditing & rationalisation
•Application packaging
•Desktop & server standards design
•Server consolidation
•Automated desktop & server build
•Policy definition and administration
•Data migration
•Automated software distribution
•Automated systems management

For more information please contact Tim Parker at 0207 307 5000 or tim.parker@syntax.co.uk, or visit www.syntax.co.uk.

Teksys is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Information Worker, Security and Software Asset Management. We are also a LAR and a Premier Support Partner.

We provide high level design, consultancy, implementation and support services for the delivery of Infrastructure Solutions, Desktop Deployment, Software Asset Management and Secure Computing. We deliver seamless transition during platform migrations and manageable security across your infrastructure, whatever your strategy. We have proven expertise in delivering and reducing the cost of owning Microsoft technologies.

Teksys services include:

• Active Directory & Exchange 2003
•Desktop Life Cycle Management
•Access Infrastructure
•Operational Management

Our success is founded on our ability to listen to our customers, understand their business objectives, and implement IT solutions that meet these needs. To this end, we have developed a structured nine stage process of engagement based on the PRINCE2 project management and delivery system.

For more information please contact Teksys at 01256 827555 or marketing@teksys.co.uk, or visit www.teksys.co.uk.

Unisys and Microsoft have had a working relationship since the early 1980s and a Gold strategic partner for over 10 years. Today Microsoft products are an important part of virtually all Unisys solutions and technology platforms. Unisys and Microsoft have a uniquely non-conflicting relationship. This provides an impartial background for Unisys as a trusted supplier of Microsoft and focused on jointly developing, delivering and supporting full enterprise-class solutions and services. For more information on the partnership, visit: ecommunity.unisys.com/forum.

These services include full Desktop Lifecycle Management Services ranging from Provisioning through to Disposal Services. For deployments, the Unisys Managed Deployment Services for Microsoft Zero Touch utilises a comprehensive process methodology along with state-of-the-art tools. Unisys incorporates the steps required to deliver expert deployment services, minimising the time and cost required to complete your deployment project.

The Unisys MDS for Microsoft Zero Touch Capability meets four goals:

•Enabling highly automated methods of migrating a large number of client devices to Windows XP.
•Reducing ongoing management costs
•Providing an automated management framework for ongoing management and upgrades of Windows Environments
•Eliminating a significant portion of the service delivery costs through the 'Zero Touch Paradigm.'

For more information please view our Deployment area on our Global Web Site. Or contact us via email.

World Class International (WCI) is a consultancy led process and technology company formed in 1986. Based in the UK with offices in Europe and the USA, the company employs over 300 staff working with clients in the Enterprise and Mid Market sectors.

WCI has been a partner of Microsoft since the early 80’s and specialises in delivering sustainable business solutions, rather than purely IT benefits.

WCI’s desktop deployment services offer a full Life Cycle Management approach, which is scaleable to suit different client needs. One of the key success factors to this approach is to ensure the solution combines both technology and process in a coordinated manner to ensure maximum benefit is derived. Our deployment services can be engaged by clients on either a full life cycle management approach or on an ad-hoc basis.

Our Deployment Services include:

•Business Case Justification: Understanding the real business drivers and justification to go ahead with the project, Proof of Concepts
•Planning: Gap Analysis, Process Mapping, Financing, Licensing, Build Design etc
•Deployment: Program Management, Solution Accelerators, Zero Touch Deployment, Process Alignment using the ITIL Framework, Skills Training & Transfer
•Operational Management: Asset Life Cycle Management, Remote Diagnostics, Standards Compliance, MOM, SMS, Management Dashboard
•Service and Support: SLA, OLA’s, Asset Inventory, Preventative Management, Process Management through the ITIL Framework
•Transition and Technology Refresh: Disposal, Decommissioning, Refresh

http://www.wcigroup.com