Camwood Ltd

Consultancy - Enlightened Migration

We offer five services to facilitate application management. Our platform can transform a chaotic and incoherent portfolio of apps into a toolset that is lean, agile, and tailored to your needs. Future migrations also benefit from this platform – migrations are cheaper and quicker when a mess of old solutions does not need unpicking. Our five Enlightened Migration™ services are: to understand your portfolio as it stands, to rationalise that portfolio and determine what is truly necessary, to identify the best platforms and software for your business, to mount a large-scale operating system migration, and to manage the technical support and user services needed after an initial migration.

Consultancy - Application Engineering and Packaging

Camwood offers an application packaging service that tailors every operating system and software platform you choose – whether Windows 7, Citrix, App-V, VMWare – to your needs. Our packages arrive with our clients ready to test, install, and manage; and we supply full documentation. Our work covers EMEA and global markets, and we can supply one application or a full platform of operating system and software suites, while working either on your premises or by remote. Please visit our website for more details.

Consultancy - Managed Services

We come with years of experience and expertise in providing streamlined, cost-effective application portfolios, designed to optimise your business. We offer two main services to streamline your software needs and management. Our Managed Application Portfolio Services remove unnecessary internal process engineering, increase software flexibility and capacity management, share investment in innovations across different pieces of software, control training costs, and also offer other benefits. And our Application Consultancy Services help with packaging and sequencing, validating requests, assessing compatibility, testing applications for operational and user viability, and managing or scheduling migrations.

Consultancy - Expert Services

Camwood has special expertise in troubleshooting problematic software setups and finding a solution to your needs. We can help resolve delays and challenges in large-scale Windows 7 migrations, we help identify applications that are being left unused and therefore a drain on IT and financial resources, we help overcome application compatibility issues that arise in migrations, and we can help with the involved process of data discovery necessary when undertaking a Microsoft Office migration.

Consultancy - Testing Services

We offer a rigorous testing system for identifying and eliminating risks in any possible software migration. Our application-centric testing services can expose possible issues to help you prepare. We offer a Microsoft Office migration test to check your Office data-sets, a Business Process test for individual business applications, and an Application Compatibility test to ensure that various different applications in upgrades platforms and operating systems will work together.

Tools - Ways of Working

Camwood sells software and services designed to help you choose how you want to work. We do not just tell you what to use; we work with you to identify the best solution for your needs. This customer-centric service starts with initial application discovery, to migration, and even to ongoing software management. Please contact us to discuss your needs and begin to identify the best solution for your work.

Tools - Streamline App Strategy

Camwood offers bespoke software to track your applications as they pass through an engineering lifecycle. These stages are Audit, Discovery, Packaging, Quality Review, User Acceptance Testing, and Deployment; and we offer a full software product and service to help you monitor this process, glean useful information, and to streamline your application strategy while avoiding chaos and confusion.

Tools - Informed Decisions

Our bespoke software tools and services are designed with each of our clients in mind. And we build our products and offerings to help make application audits faster, more fruitful, and endlessly repeatable; this helps our clients make better business decisions every day. Our tools can help you learn what applications have been used over the past 

year, by whom and how often, and which ones are languishing in neglect or do not address a real need. And our tools offer many other benefits. It all adds up to informed decisions about the value of your software portfolio. Please visit our website for more details.

Tools - Reduce Costs

Our services also have the benefit of reducing costs. Application compatibility tools, especially, can help you make sound software decisions by giving you an insight into the elements and interactions of your application portfolio. We help minimise disruption, improve software management, and automate manual processes. Please visit our website for more details.

Tools - Clearer Picture

Camwood’s powerful software components can help create a clear picture about a company’s existing application portfolio. And our software is designed to produce these reports in a range of formats that are suitable for CTOs, CFOs, and CIOs. These reports will help you see which applications will migrate smoothly and which will be problematic; and which applications are suited to specific tasks. And our tools help develop a clearer picture across a raft of other measures that are essential to smart management and smooth migrations. Please visit our website for more details.

Know How - Case Studies

Our website includes a number of case studies of our recent application management and migration work – namely a study on Babcock International’s recent application migration and the Windows 7 migration undertaken for Tube Lines. Please visit our website for more details.

Know How - Checklists

We offer online guides for download on our Application Portfolio Management checklists and our Software Asset Management checklists. These resources can give you an insight into how we plan migrations, test systems and application compatibility, how we product profiles and reports on existing software platforms, and other services.

Know How - Data Sheets

Camwood’s online data sheets cover a large number of subjects – application categorisation, application compatibility, audit services, rationalisation through analytics, Windows 7 migration resolutions, Microsoft Office migrations, application engineering, and application usage. Please visit this resource to gain further insights into how we proceed with our services and to identify initial areas of interest for your business.

Know How - eBooks

We have published a number of eBooks – on application intelligence, Windows 7 migrations, Internet Explorer management, and other topics. Please visit our website to peruse these resources and make use of them in your own business.

Know How - Videos

Our professionally-produced videos are a quick, engaging, informative and fun way to learn about many aspects of our business and services. We have videos on Best Practice Portfolio Management, our work in “Application Intelligence”, and a case study of our work with Babcock International.

Know How - White Papers

Camwood is proud to publish white papers on detailed technical subjects related to our work in application migrations and portfolio management. Our latest white paper addresses the crucial subject of migrating away from Windows XP – since Microsoft is planning to end support for this operating system in the next several months. Please visit our website for more information.