Office 2000 Readiness Assessment

Office 2000 is coming...
Are you prepared?

Microsoft Office 2000^® promises to bring unprecedented benefits to end users and IT professionals alike, by improving ease of use and enterprise integration, while simultaneously drastically reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). These goals can only be met by ensuring that your network infrastructure, from your desktops to your servers to your LANs, is properly prepared.

In a recent article, Information Week predicted that "Office 2000 may turn out to be reminiscent of the Windows 95^® rollout, where IT managers held their fingers in the dike while millions of consumers installed it at home and then forced it onto their machines at work." With new Windows Installer technology and a raft of web-enabled features, an unplanned or ill-conceived Office 2000 rollout provides many opportunities to bring a network to its knees.

Perhaps you’ve already considered these potential issues:

• Have you identified redundant installation points on your network, and considered the impact of Office 2000’s Install on Demand technology?
• Will all users get the same applications, features and customized templates?
• Will you be supporting "roaming users"? How?
• How much of your Access 97^® (or earlier) data or applications will you still need to use after installing Office 2000?
• Are your servers configured to support Office 2000’s web collaboration features?

The CoreTech Consulting Group, Inc.^® Office 2000 Readiness Assessment (ORA) is designed to quickly evaluate your existing Office 2000 deployment and support procedures from the standpoint of your business needs. CoreTech professionals will examine all areas of your technology infrastructure that will be affected by an Office 2000 rollout, and identify those areas that require additional preparation. The ORA will result in an action plan that will enable IT to be ready to support an Office 2000 migration, in a manner that best supports your company’s business needs.

Specific infrastructure areas that are evaluated include:

• Software Distribution Processes
• Migration Processes
• Support Center Issues
• Collaboration Requirements
• Network Engineering
• Desktop Engineering
• Application Engineering
• Application Flow and Data Analysis

The Office 2000 Readiness Assessment applies CoreTech’s TOPP discipline^TM – Technology, Organization, Process, and People^TM – to determine what areas of your infrastructure are best prepared for Office 2000, and what areas need further effort to make an Office 2000 migration as seamless as possible. The ORA is direct, pointed and expedient, typically concluding in less than two weeks. The result is a distilled, hard-hitting one-hour presentation and discussion that will help you prioritize your Office 2000 planning: What do you need to address NOW.

Interested?
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