This UK-headquartered FTSE 100 company operates over one hundred leisure attractions, hotels and holiday villages in more than twenty countries. The customer-facing teams are supported by central services operating from two offices in southern England.
The situation
Carry out detailed assessment of customer’s existing Citrix XenApp environment across global operations to enable planning and design of desktop transformation
Workload profiling performed as part of defining new target size and state
Full discovery and assessment of the existing application portfolio
Our approach
Defined overall project approach and key components
Data discovery and capture from 120 Citrix XenApp Servers
Data captured and analysed with automation tooling to generate workload profiling reports for design and planning of compute, storage and networking requirements
Current state analysis, roadmap and project framework together with what-if modelling to assess final selected solution
Outcomes achieved
Clear recommendations made to prepare the existing environment and associated dependencies ahead of the transformation programme
Transparency of existing environment enabled optimised, correctly sized design to ensure accurate programme budgeting
Comprehensive programme plan to ensure robust foundation from which to launch project, while reducing risk
