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Confessions of an End User: My Year of Planning for Virtual Desktop Brian Smith VP Desktop Services Webster Bank, NA
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Who are We? In Business for over 75 years. Full-service Regional Commercial Bank 168 Branches CT, MA, RI, NY 500 ATM’s 3,000 Employees Vision: To Be New England’s Bank
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Who are you? Why are you here? IT Pro/Manager Desktop / Server / Security / … Budget Responsibility? What are your company’s goals around desktop virtualization right now? What are YOU hoping to get out of this session?
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Where to Start… GOALS! What are you trying to accomplish? Webster’s Goals: Service Quality! Efficient Flexible
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Evaluate the Market… What solutions are on the market that fit your goals? Webster’s Solution Requirements: High WAN Performance Even Cost (or cheaper) to Operate Maximize Feature Offering Simplify Management Leverage Existing Relationships (if possible)
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Evaluate Gaps… Where might your primary solution choice have gaps? Webster’s Solution Gaps: Number of Applications Desire to unify the User Experience Desire to unify Management processes Offline Usage ???
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Evaluate Gaps… How are you going to handle gaps? Webster’s Gap Handling: Do Nothing ??? Minority Solution ??? … Have any ideas?
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Assessing AS-IS What do you actually have out there? Webster’s Approach: Need a Comprehensive Tool Stock Data doesn’t work Can’t afford to overbuild Market Weakness ???
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Determining TO-BE What should our new environment look like? Webster’s Approach: Non-Persistent Virtualize Apps Dynamic Assembly Minimize Exceptions
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Architecture & Design How do you build out your solution? Webster’s Approach: Include Subject Matter Experts on Staff Include Key Partners Leverage Existing Experience Leverage Suites Plan – Do – Check – Act
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Implementation How do you implement your solution? Webster’s Approach: Proof of Concept Pilot Multi-Phase Production
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Making Financial Sense How do you justify the cost of your solution? Webster’s Approach: Total Cost of Ownership Focus on Operational Efficiency Hard vs. Soft Costs/Benefits Phase In vs. Volume Discounts
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Making Financial Sense Some “Creative” Ideas: Operational vs. Capital Costs Software Migration Cost Offset Power Consumption Licensing Efficiencies Support Efficiencies ??? Service Quality ???
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Brian Smith VP Desktop Services Webster Bank, NA bmsmith@websterbank.com
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