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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 25, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 34
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Systems/Enterprise:
EDS LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST
UTILITY-BASED DESKTOP SOLUTION
EDS staked claim to the industry's first utility-based desktop solution --
myCOE (my Consistent Office Environment) -- a key component in delivering
"pay-for-use" computing. EDS worked closely with strategic alliance partner
Microsoft to develop this new user-centric service.
myCOE shifts up-front capital investment costs to smaller, incremental
costs
on a pay-for-use basis. This tailoring of services allows an enterprise,
business unit, work unit or individual user to choose corporate applications
and services based on their job roles and their own personal preferences,
using only what they need, when they need it.
The new service offering enables enhanced business agility by providing
greater visibility into IT costs at the point of consumption. Business users
can make the direct link between IT investment and business value, and can
remove the cost of excess capacity to scale up or down as business situations
demand.
"myCOE supports mobile workers, e-business and diverse IT environments
effectively by providing robust, secure, scalable 'any to any' Web-enabled
access to core infrastructure and services," said Carol Wyatt, global offering
executive for EDS Desktop Services. "This new model of service delivery and
end-user support meets the evolving needs of an agile enterprise."
myCOE uses a robust web portal interface to provision and automate delivery
of
desktop applications and services. myCOE utilizes a combination of committed
baseline service bundles, monthly subscription pricing for intermittently used
applications (project or collaboration tools for example), and a per service
incident or capacity rate structure for consumption-based services such as
storage, help desk, online training and other applications. It provides
anytime, anywhere secure seamless access to support mobile workers, e-business
and multi-provider environments using a wide variety of access devices. For
more information on myCOE visit www.eds.com/mycoe .
EDS has been a pioneer in delivering utility solutions for the mainframe
and
midrange computing market, and now is the first to bring a utility-based
business model to desktop services. myCOE combines best of breed technology
and innovation from EDS, a leader in desktop services, and Microsoft, a leader
in desktop applications.
"EDS and Microsoft worked closely together to automate deployment tasks for
Windows XP, Office and other desktop applications," said Chris Jones, vice
president of Microsoft Windows Client Core Platforms Division. "EDS built an
innovative solution upon our Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop
Deployment. Now, customers can get new desktop technology into the hands of
information workers more quickly and easily."
EDS and Microsoft also worked together on developing Microsoft's zero-
touch
provisioning technology that provides remote deployment capability for
Microsoft operating system upgrades and associated tasks. Tasks for deploying
Windows XP and Office XP that previously required manual intervention are now
almost totally automated and can be completed in an unattended manner, making
desktop deployment easier and more cost efficient.
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