ChangeBASE announces release of AOK Assess-It and AOK Fix-It for Windows 7 and publishes White Paper on Windows 7 Application Compatibility

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09 March 2009

 

ChangeBASE

AOK, the leaders in automated application and virtualisation compatibility

software, today announces a new suite of compatibility plug-ins that test for

and fix compatibility issues between an application estate and the new Windows

7 platform.

ChangeBASE

also releases a white paper with detailed information on the compatibility challenges

organisations will face when looking to get applications to work with Windows 7,

based on the results of testing AOK with multiple applications in their Application

Compatibility Lab.

Highlights

from this paper include:-

· To migrate to Windows 7 an organisation will

need to surmount all the compatibility challenges an application may have when targeting a Vista operating

platform, AND address any problems with applications not being developed to

work with the new Windows 7 compatibility rules. Between 60-80% of applications

running on XP or earlier operating systems will need some remediation to meet

the requirements to be deployable tothe new O/S . Up to 5% of total

applications have issues that mean they will not work at all and will require

vendor or programmer intervention.

· 8% of applications will be affected by the

additional requirements necessary to comply with Windows 7, above and beyond

those application issues apparent withVISTA, based on the current beta release

and published documentation. The white

paper details these potential issues.

· AOK automates remediation of the application to

address these issues where possible. For

the remainder, organisations will need to revert to the vendors for upgrades or

work with the in-house development teams to remediate the problems. The detailed information AOK provides on

these compatibility issues will greatly simplify the fixing process.

ChangeBASE also announce a specific

partner program to help organisations with the assessment and remediation work

using AOK.

ChangeBASE is a Microsoft Gold

partner and is supported by Microsoft on the Windows 7 adoption program

Other partners supporting this

program include:-

· Accenture

· Dimension Data

· EOH Gallium

· Satyam

· Getronics

· Klokwork

 

 

These partners have in depth

knowledge of ChangeBASE AOK and the Win 7 compatibility Plug-Ins they have

released.

Commenting on these

announcements, John Tate, Managing Director of ChangeBASE stated: ‘We have

implemented VISTA in our own business and this offers significant enhancements

in key areas of productivity, security, and functionality that enterprises are

looking to take advantage of. The challenge is to ensure their applications will

work on this and the new Windows 7 platform. AOK allows organisations to rapidly

assess the suitability of a company’s applications and then automate the

remediation of these for the new O/S’s. This will help their decision making,

and drive adoption.’

‘It’s really important to understand though,

that it is the diverse nature of enterprise application estates that make

migration such a painful subject, not changes to the O/S itself’, he concluded.

 

About ChangeBASE Limited

Founded in 2006 and Headquartered in London, England, ChangeBASE is the

provider and developer of AOK, a product that automates the management and

upgrade of applications in a Microsoft environment.

ChangeBASE counts Dimension Data, SCC, Satyam,

Getronics, Symantec, and Microsoft as partners and GSK, Astra Zeneca and Man

Investments amongst its enterprise customers.

 

For more information, interviews and images please visit www.changebase.comor contact:

John Tate, Managing

Director ChangeBASE. john.tate ( -at -) changebase.com(00 44) 7730 816912Or

 

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