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Stream lead in a project aiming at the virtualization of a desktop environment

 

Activity and interventions


  • Process setup and documentation
  • Stream coordination
  • Work packages organization

 


 Technical environment


  • Windows, Citrix, AppSense
  • Active Directory, SMS
  • Excel, Access

 


Key figures


  • 750 end-users
  • 5 ALTEN Consultants
  • Project duration : 4 months

Context

 

The platform for virtualized desktop environment is designed for providing end users with maximum mobility, standardization and flexibility, while it offers the Bank an easier maintenance, enhanced security, improved software licenses control and lower Total Cost of Ownership.

 

The purpose of the initial rollout phase was to migrate a subset of the user base while documenting and enhancing the transition process. This optimized process was then repeated at a larger scale on several departments in parallel.

 

The focus was set on a minimal disruption to the users’ day to day activities and an optimal spread of the work queues of the rollout team.


 

 

ALTEN's achievements

 

  • Application portfolio standardization
  • Production of categorized software usage matrixes per team, based on low level inventory
  • Challenge of software usage with team leaders, aiming at cost optimization
  • Downstream technical threads feeding: scripting/streaming, access management, deployment
  • Documentation of the rollout process to make it repeatable and extendable
  • Requirements production for enhancing the tools supporting the rollout process

 

 

ALTEN's Added value

 

  • Creativity for managing an heterogeneous organization
  • Ability to cope with inaccurate initial assumptions
  • Flexibility towards priority changes
  • Structured but creative approach of the project