Are you ready for a break from the summer’s water activities, food indulgences, or airport waiting lounges? We’ve got just the thing – a catch-up blog covering the hottest topics of the year so far in application management, endpoint migration, EUC, and more.
Don’t worry, though, this isn’t a technology epic with several thousand words of complex jargon and heavy detail. It’s the holiday season, after all, so we’ve condensed the main points into this concise blog. All you need is four or five minutes, a cup of coffee (or something a little stronger), and we’re good-to-go.
Automation Advances Make Evergreen Application Management a Reality
Evergreen IT management is a concept that has been around for many years but has not delivered on its promise, not least because of the complexity of modern IT infrastructures. There is one area, however, where evergreen IT is possible, cost-effective, and practical – application management.
Evergreen application management is not suitable for all the applications in your IT estate, especially enterprise and custom applications. But for those garden variety applications that are on almost every device in almost every organisation, evergreen application management offers big wins.
Our full blog explains why evergreen application management is possible and how the process works.
The Rise of AI, Cloud PCs, and GPUs! What About Your Personas?
We are currently living and working through an era marked by the rise of AI and cloud computing. Migration projects are being driven by these new technologies, from Windows 11 migrations to migrating users to VDI (or back to physical again!). There is often a missing element in all these changes – personas. Personas let you put users first rather than technology first in a way that is efficient and technically manageable at scale.
Here’s the link to our recent blog if you want to explore this topic further.
Is This Really the Year of VDI?!
This is a topic that is really heating up as we move through 2025. The rate of VDI adoption has varied significantly between different industries and even companies within industries. We also see periods of increased uptake followed by slowdowns. At Access IT Automation, we have identified indications that this could be the year of VDI, but it is also a year of reckoning. One thing is for certain – this is a very fluid topic that is worth staying on top of.
Demystifying UEM, EUC, and DEX – Understanding the Options, Differences, and Limitations
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), End User Computing (EUC), and Digital Employee Experience (DEX) are similar, but the subtle yet important differences can have a big impact on the objectives you want to achieve.
UEM is about managing all endpoints (devices connected to the network) with a single tool.
EUC involves all the technologies, policies, and processes that give users access to devices, data, and applications.
DEX is an assessment of the experience of users in relation to workplace technologies.
For a deeper dive into UEM, EUC, and DEX, check out our blog.
Software Asset Management – Why Companies Fail at Hygiene Controls with Application Version Updates
Software asset management is a crucial function, but processes are not always sufficient to ensure application versions are kept up to date. The main reasons for this are a lack of inventory visibility, time and resource-intensive manual update processes, and gaps in access control processes. The solution is to automate software asset management as much as possible.
Read more about the implications of inadequate software asset management.
6 Common Mistakes When Migrating to Windows 11 and How to Overcome Them
Windows 11 migration projects go wrong for a number of reasons. This includes not having a clear strategy and not doing a full assessment of the hardware in your IT estate. Not considering the decommissioning and disposal of hardware that is no longer required is also an issue, as is doing everything manually when automation is possible.
Other reasons for Windows 11 migration project difficulties include not preparing users properly and not focusing sufficiently on applications that are mission-critical to your organisation.
Read our full blog to find out how to overcome these common Windows 11 migration mistakes.
