Camwood has
launched
appTitude, which aims to slash the time and cost of migrating
to Microsoft’s
Vista platform.
Before moving to Vista,
organisations must test all their applications to check they
are compatible with the new platform. Manual testing can be very
time-consuming and costly, but Camwood’s appTitude automates the
process to save time and money.
Camwood estimates that it takes between eight and 16 hours to
manually test an application for its functional compatibility with
Vista.
Using appTitude, this process is cut to between five and 10
minutes, said Camwood. For a large organisation with thousands of
applications the cost benefits could be enormous.
Camwood estimates that the overall cost of testing a typical
installation of 500 applications would be around £300,000 (based on
£600 per application).
Using appTitude, the cost would be around £20,000, giving an
estimated saving of £280,000, said Camwood.
Since Vista’s launch, Camwood has profiled more than 5,000
applications and has discovered that around 20% show issues which
make them incompatible with the new platform.
After running appTitude, each application is tested against
specific criteria and the results are shown in a detailed report.
Its key findings are highlighted as red, amber or green: red
requires urgent attention and green shows there are no apparent
issues.
AppTitude is a modular product, so it can be scaled to meet
different companies’ needs. Its six modules cover compatibility,
virtualisation,
interoperability, relationship mapping, patch management and
complexity management.
Customers can select one, all or any combination of the modules
to suit their particular needs.
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