Upcoming customer and analyst webcasts
Each month, we will feature a different customer or analyst discussing how Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Desktop can impact your organization in positive ways, including helping IT to streamline management and manage risk while helping your employees increase productivity. Get started with the next event:
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 | December 4, 2009 | Costs and Challenges with Supporting Information Workers with Forrester Analyst | |
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 | December 3, 2009 | Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Client Devices offering for Health | |
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 | November 17, 2009 | Windows 7 in Government: Streamlined IT Management Reaps Cost Savings for City of Miami
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 | October 26, 2009 | Best Practices for Windows 7 Migrations Using Microsoft Application Virtualization | |
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| October 6, 2009 | Is Your Organization Ready for Windows 7? with Forrester Analyst | |
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 | September 8, 2009 | Stop the IT/User Tug-Of-War with Microsoft's Windows Optimized Desktop | |
Costs and Challenges with Supporting Information Workers
Featured speaker: Benjamin Gray, Analyst, Forrester
Forrester's Benjamin Gray discusses the July 2009 report "The Costs and Challenges Associated with Supporting Today's Information Workers" and how organizations can react to maximize employee productivity. Today's increasingly mobile workforce can create new business processes and efficiencies, but it also introduces technology and support challenges for IT and requires end users to become more self-sufficient. After surveying over 300 IT professionals, Forrester Consulting discusses key findings on how global organizations can:
Understand their diverse workforce and what they need from technology
Evaluate the actual needs, behaviors, and attitudes of employees to segment employees
Analyze the “why” as well as the “what” behind technology needs to maximize the adoption rate and satisfaction of your next-generation desktop
Register today for this webcast to see how Windows 7 can benefit your organization with powerful technologies that help you secure, officially manage, and lower the cost of your organization's desktop infrastructure.
About Benjamin Gray: Benjamin serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals. He is a leading expert on business-class PCs and desktop operating systems and also researches business-class mobile devices, mobile operating systems, and mobile device management solutions.
Benjamin helps Forrester clients develop and improve their strategy around client hardware and client operating systems. Benjamin's research and analysis have been widely cited in the press, including business media outlets such as The Associated Press, Bloomberg, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal and industry media outlets such as Computerworld, eWeek, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, and NetworkWorld.
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Microsoft HUG Webcast: Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Client Devices offering for Health*
Featured speakers:
Teddy Bachour, Senior Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Eve Psalti, Senior Windows Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Werner Van Huffel, Industry Technical Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
Windows 7 is a key component of the Microsoft Windows Optimized Client Devices (WOCD) offering, one of four Microsoft ICT Offerings in Health for enabling ICT departments to become strategic assets to their Health organization as they are increasingly challenged to provide more value to the care delivery system with reduced budgets.
In this session, you will learn about key benefits for Windows 7 in health and how WOCD will help Healthcare and Public Health and Social Services organizations empower care professionals, patients, and citizens to be more productive from virtually anywhere, simplify application and resource management across physical and virtual capabilities, and enable better security and privacy controls.
Register today to find out more about Windows 7 and how it can empower care professionals, patients, and citizens.
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*This webcast is FREE to all Microsoft HUG members / HIMSS members. You must have your Microsoft HUG/HIMSS membership # to register.
Don’t know your Microsoft HUG/HIMSS membership? microsofthug@himss.org
Not a member? You need to register for Microsoft HUG/HIMSS membership
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Windows 7 in Government: Streamlined IT Management Reaps Cost Savings for City of Miami
Featured speakers:
James Osteen, Jr., Assistant Director, Information Technology Department, City of Miami
Peter Korinis, Chief Information Officer, City of Miami
Derrick Arias, Assistant Director, Information Technology Department, City of Miami
Like many city governments, the City of Miami faces mounting pressures to deliver more city services on a tighter budget. After piloting the new Windows 7 operating system, the city decided to upgrade city-wide to take advantage of the software's capabilities. City IT managers saw in Windows 7 the opportunity to deliver significant benefits, even in an environment of scarce staff and increasing demand for IT services.
Windows 7 capabilities enabled city officials to provide a more productive environment for PC users, while enhancing their service delivery, improving IT security and control—and driving down operating costs. In doing so, they realized the following benefits:
Register today to find out more about the City of Miami's ability to streamline costs by migrating to new Windows 7 operating system. Bring your questions for our panel of experts to address during a live Q&A following the presentation!
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