IT Pro Tips

By Michael K. Campbell

With Vista SP1 virtually around the corner, more and more companies are likely to be gearing up for their own transition efforts. However, a large number of companies have already begun making the transition, and Microsoft has chronicled some of their successes. Therefore, if you’d like to get a feel for what some organizations have already experienced, then take a look at Deployment Stories – a brief overview, or introduction, to various case studies and their outcomes.

Acting as a high-level overview of some of the different types of deployment scenarios that real companies have dealt with, this resource points out some of the benefits that companies have seen in transitioning to Vista. It also serves as a link to Microsoft’s extensive catalog of case studies – focused, in this case, on Windows Vista (and, to a lesser extent, Office 2007).

Of course, the summaries listed in the screen-shot above are just that: summaries. If you click on any of the case studies, you’ll be presented with a better overview of the business problems at hand and how they were solved.

Given some of the bad press that Vista has gotten of late (some of it deserved) it’s nice to help put things into perspective by being able to see how well Vista has done in solving real-world problems for real companies. Of course, these case studies obviously have a bit of a marketing bent to them, but that doesn’t change the fact that each case study represents a tangible problem that was actually solved. In other words, reading through these can usually be a good way to determine ways that other companies are tackling some of the same problems that you’re currently grappling with.

So, if you want to see the kinds of ROI and benefits that companies are getting from using Vista and Office 2007, or if you’d just like to keep tabs on the competition – or on other companies within your sector, then make sure to check out Deployment Stories and its accompanying links.