How the assessment works

Five business days with minimal disruption for your staff. The result is a document you can plan a budget from.

01

Data gathering

An inventory of workstations, servers, network hardware and licences. We check what actually runs and what sits switched off.

02

Dependency diagram

We map how the nodes depend on each other. This is usually where it turns out the whole company rests on one old server.

03

Risk assessment

We rate every finding by likelihood and impact: what to fix now and what can wait for the next budget.

04

Report and plan

You get the diagram, the list of risks and a work plan with cost estimates. The document is yours even if we do not continue.

Local workstations or VDI

Virtual desktops do not solve every problem. Below is an honest comparison so the choice is not driven by fashion.

Option 1

Local workstations

The familiar setup: the desktop and the data live on the computer itself.

Cost to start
Lower, the hardware is already there
A lost laptop
Risk of a data breach
A new employee
Hardware procurement and setup
Working without internet
Possible
Heavy graphics and CAD
Works as people are used to

Option 2

VDI

The desktop lives on the server and the device becomes just a screen.

Cost to start
Higher, a server is required
A lost laptop
Data stays on the server
A new employee
Access granted in minutes
Working without internet
Not possible
Heavy graphics and CAD
Needs a separate solution

Bottom line

Which to choose

The setups can be combined: some employees move to VDI while others stay on local machines.

Local workstations
A small, stable office
VDI
High turnover, branches, remote work
A mixed setup
Designers stay local, everyone else moves to VDI

Infrastructure with no diagram is knowledge held by one person. While everything works, you see no difference. It shows up on the day that person is on holiday and the server will not boot.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, if it is a typical office and you are considering a service contract. The report and the diagram stay with you whatever you decide. For distributed companies with branches the scope is larger and such an assessment is quoted separately.

Not always. For an office of up to 20 people without heavy databases it is often cheaper to rent capacity than to keep a server room. The decision depends on your data requirements, access speed and whether anyone can maintain the hardware.

For an office of 15 to 30 people it takes two to four weeks from the moment the premises are ready: network, hardware, accounts and access. The longest wait is usually not us but the provider and the hardware delivery.

That is what most companies do. Staff who handle sensitive data or change often move to VDI, while designers and engineers stay on local machines.

We will review what you have

We will run an assessment in five business days and hand over a diagram with a list of risks. What to do first is then your decision.