UK Press Briefing - video highlights, 01/07/2008
Here are the video highlights from a recent UK press briefing held in conjunction with AppDNA, Microsoft, HP Professional Services and Camwood together with senior IT personnel from Tube Lines and Newham Borough Council. The press event detailed the role that automated application testing software has played in Newham and Tube Lines' planning around Windows Vista deployment, enabling both organisations to quickly test 1,000's of applications for OS compatibility, while providing valuable information on the remediation efforts required to migrate those applications that have compatibility issues. Click to read more...
Newham Borough Council undertakes Windows Vista compatibility testing with AppDNA, 22/05/2008 (findarticles.com)
AppDNA, a developer of application migration software, announced on Wednesday (21 May) the completion of a Windows Vista application compatibility testing project for Newham Borough Council in the UK.
According to the company the analysis work, undertaken by HP, used AppDNA's AppTitude automated testing solution to analyse 120 of Newham's core applications. The solution looked at the applications' ability to install and run under Windows Vista and suggested fixes to address any identified issues to make them Windows Vista ready. Click to read more...
Microsoft customers weigh Vista pros and cons, 22/05/2008 (www.itpro.co.uk)
Two Microsoft customers espouse the business benefits of Vista, but say the new OS doesn't necessarily add value.
"A sports car is no good if it has one gear in it," said Adrian Davey, the head of IT at Tube Lines told participants of a Microsoft roundtable yesterday to discuss adoption of latest operating system (OS) Vista.
The message that came across from Tube Lines and public sector user, Newham Borough Council was that the latest Microsoft operating system offered good functional improvements from a central management and security point of view. Click to read more...
Newham council tests for Vista compatibility, 22/05/2008 (www.computerweekly.com)
Newham Borough Council has tested its core business applications for compatibility with Windows Vista six months in advance of a council-wide rollout across 5,000 desktop PCs.
The council has used AppDNA's AppTitude automated testing tool to analyse 120 of Newham's core applications.
Geoff Connell, chief information office at Newham, said, "We found we had lots of versions of the same software and we were able to target the small minority of applications where there were incompatibility issues.". Click to read more...
Newham U-turns on Vista, 22/05/2008 (www.theinquirer.net)
NEWHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL has revived the rollout of Microsoft's Vista operating system that it suspended last year after learning that council business would grind to a halt if it used the software.
The East London council said today that it was trialling a "limited rollout" of Vista to see if the council could cope with it after all. Geoff Connell, acting IT director of Newham, said in a statement: "We are working toward a full rollout of the new operating system next year." He said Vista would give the council productivity benefits over its existing operating system, Windows 2000. But he did not specify what those benefits where, nor how much the rollout would cost. Click to read more...
Experiencing migration pains? The move to Vista need not be so difficult, 07/02/2008 (www.computerweekly.com)
Barely a day goes by when someone I am speaking to or swapping e-mails with does not moan about application compatibility issues with Microsoft's Vista platform.
Worse still, we are having Windows Vista forced upon us whether we like it or not, which spells all kinds of problems for home users and businesses.
User concern has seen major names in the PC and laptop world, such as Dell and HP, offering downgrades from Vista to XP. Typically this response has been in the form of offering XP Pro recovery discs to those who request one, which can be used to revert a Vista machine to XP Pro. Click to read more...
The development double-helix answer to Vista upgrade headaches, 14/01/2008 (community.zdnet.co.uk)
Certain breeds of Vista upgrade or migration testing solutions (and in particular those that can accommodate testing of non-MSI applications) appear to favour the option to build new virtualisation modules that will fingerprint application DNA and highlight those applications that are suitable for virtualisation under Microsoft's Softgrid. This seems like a logical move – as many will know, MSI is the standard file format for distribution of apps in a Windows environment (kind of like the same thing as RPM for Linux), so a stripped back to the core approach makes sense. Click to read more...
Application testing goes virtual, 14/01/2008 (www.itpro.co.uk)
AppTitude 2.0, the new version of the application compatibility testing software designed to speed operating system (OS) migration, is released today to
increase Vista uptake and virtualisation potential in a mixed software environment.
The automated client-server software testing platform features a new Virtualisation Manager module for assessing applications to determine if they are suitable for
virtualisation with Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly known as 'SoftGrid').
The provision of compatibility testing for applications that are scheduled for deployment under Microsoft Application Virtualisation is designed to highlight
those applications that are poor candidates for virtualisation and report on potential issues.
Click to read more...
Tool checks Microsoft migrations, 14/01/2008 (www.itweek.co.uk)
Companies considering their options in application provisioning in 2008 could be interested in a new tool that checks preparedness for
migrations to Windows Vista or Microsoft’s on-demand application streaming program, Application Virtualisation, formerly known as SoftGrid.
AppDNA’s AppTitude 2.0 automates software testing to assess application compatibility status, a classic problem for companies planning a transition to a new operating system.
The new release includes support for applications that are not in Windows Installer format to over complete estates of applications. Click to read more...
Camwood/AppDNA divides to conquer for 2008, 11/01/2008
LONDON, January 11 2008 – In order to better serve its current and future customers and to maximise the market potential for AppTitude, Camwood, the leading application migration specialist, today announced that it is to split the company and create two separate businesses. From January 2008, the consulting services company will retain the name Camwood, while a new company called AppDNA will manage the research, development and creation of an indirect sales channel for the AppTitude product, a software solution that automates the application testing requirement for companies migrating to Microsoft Vista. Click to read more...
Service packs bolster Windows and Office - 17/12/2007, (www.itweek.co.uk)
IT departments will have a busy period updating clients during the festive season and into the new year as admins get to grips with new service packs for Windows and Office. SP1 for Office 2007 has just been released, and rounds up a number of fixes intended to improve stability, performance and security. "Stability was one of the most important themes, so the engineering team was told to take on the top five challenges in each program," said Darren Strange, Microsoft Office product manager. Click to read more...
Tube Lines turns to Vista - 30/11/2007, (www.computing.co.uk)
Migration of 2500 users will be eased by offering staff cut-price applications for familiarisation at home. Tube Lines is easing migration to the Microsoft Vista operating system by focusing on application compatibility and offering Office 2007 to staff for £17. Click to read more...
Tube staff get huge discount on Office - 28/11/2007, (news.zdnet.co.uk)
One of the London Underground's maintenance companies is offering its employees £17 copies of Microsoft Office 2007 for personal use at home, in preparation for its migration to Windows Vista. Tube Lines, a private company that has the maintenance and infrastructure upgrade contract for the Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines, is planning to move from Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) to the Vista operating system in late 2008. Click to read more...
Vista not grabbing businesses... yet - 28/11/2007, (software.silicon.com)
Businesses feel a move to Microsoft's Windows Vista OS isn't worth the effort yet, due to compatibility issues and it offering too few benefits over XP. Almost a year after the businesses version of Vista was released, it seems take-up remains sluggish and analysts predict this won't change significantly for a while. Click to read more...
Tube Lines on track for Vista migration - 28/11/2007, (www.itpro.co.uk)
Tube Lines, the London Underground maintenance and upgrade company, is using technology and consultancy services to prepare for the migration next year of its 2,500 users to the Windows Vista operating system (OS). The company, which provides maintenance services for trains and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, is using appTitude application compatibility testing and appTracker lifecycle management tools from UK application migration specialists, Camwood to carry out its planning for the Vista OS migration to be completed by the third quarter of 2008. Click to read more...
Computer Weekly: Camwood help Tubelines arrive at Vista - 27/11/2007
Tube Lines, the company that maintains and upgrades infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly London Underground lines, is offering staff big discounts on Microsoft Office 2007 to build up support for its migration to the Windows Vista operating system next year. Click to read more...
Moving on up - 07/11/2007
Camwood founder Mike Welling set out with plans to launch a hostile takeover of Microsoft. Back in the real world, he's found that timing - and listening - is everything in the software business. Mike Welling is founder and COO of software migration specialist Camwood. The company he started in his loft back in late 1999 has a huge opportunity in front of it today as enterprises struggle to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Vista. Click to read more...
ZDNet Blog: Happy Birthday (dear) Vista - 02/11/2007
Those among us who harbour an obsession for dates and calendars may have noticed that we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the release of Windows Vista and we’re not out of the woods yet when it comes to application compatibility. Many argue that the product is not quite the revolution that the world’s largest software company originally envisioned. So why is that? Could it be that the sheer weight of testing overhead is too great for many companies to consider implementing it on an enterprise level? Click to read more...
Gartner Cool Vendor PC Technologies - 13/03/2007
Camwood the leading UK software & consultancy company, developing and delivering a comprehensive range of services and software solutions to support application migrations and ongoing application operations management within Microsoft Windows environments has been included in the Gartner Inc, "Cool Vendors in PC Technologies 2007 Report". There are only companies nominated from around the globe and Camwood are the only UK based company. Click to read more...