New service addresses top 5 barriers to enterprise class migration success

LONDON: 04 October 2011 – Camwood Limited, the UK-based specialist in application logistics, today announced the launch of its Migration Resolve Service. The service is designed to address the requirements of an increasing number of larger enterprises, who are struggling to migrate applications to the Microsoft Windows 7 platform.  The Migration Resolve Service provides the tools, consultancy and support required to address the top 5 barriers to successful migration that Camwood is repeatedly seeing, as companies seek specialist support.

Camwood’s Migration Resolve Service, which comprises best practice migration processes, consulting expertise and software tool-sets, is aimed specifically at helping organisations avoid the following mistakes, or provide remediation assistance to get a Windows 7 migration initiative back on track.

    Poor planning - Projects and programmes are underway, but due to poor planning, problems arise which become showstoppers. For example, organisations that dive in head first to a certain methodology, only to later discover that it is not appropriate and will make the project impossible to deliver.

    Acting solely on data from automation tools - Organisations have purchased automation and intelligence tools to help them plan, but then realise that there’s an overwhelming amount of effort and skills required to gain real value from the tools. These could be skills that are lacking within the tools vendor, internal staff or outsourcer.

    Buying cheap – The cheap option is not always the wise option. Organisations often find that skilling a team with contract resource or the cheapest offshore service will lead to disappointment when the project goes awry.

    Not recognising or retaining skills - The use of internal staff to satisfy demand will lead to significant issues, as a clear skills gap will become apparent when applications become complex. As the contract and permanent market is incredibly buoyant for the right talent, companies are also at risk of not retaining the required skills.

    Dependency ignorance – Many organisations have bought Application Virtualisation technologies in ignorance of the complexity of application dependencies.  They’ve invested and now they’re stuck.

Camwood CEO, Frank Foxall, commented: “At Camwood we are afforded excellent insight into the issues that enterprises are facing when attempting migration projects. This placed us in the ideal position to launch a service that could provide fast, effective, tailored assistance to organisations whose projects were at risk of failure or serious delay.” He continued: “The potential pitfalls associated with such a significant enterprise scale undertaking as an OS migration are vast, but the Migration Resolve Service is already proving to be a vital emergency service.”

Camwood was recently ranked as one of the UK’s top 100 fastest growing private tech companies. The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table, published on 18th September 2011, lists Camwood at number 58.