Desktop Analytics provides you with information that allows you to make more informed decisions about the availability of updates for your Windows clients.
Desktop Analytics is a cloud based service that integrates with Configuration Manager. It combines your organization's data with aggregated data from millions of devices connected to cloud Microsoft services.
Features
Use Desktop Analytics with Configuration Manager to:
- Create an inventory of applications running in your organisation
- Evaluate the compatibility of applications with the latest Windows 10 feature updates
- Identify compatibility issues and receive mitigation suggestions based on data information cloud
- Create driver groups that represent the entire application and driver pool on a minimum set of devices
- Deploy Windows 10 on pilot and managed devices in production
Benefits
Many customers are struggling to get and stay up to date with Windows 10. The main challenge is testing applications, as this process is usually manual and time-consuming for IT administrators and application owners, who need to continually analyse existing applications and remedy any issues that arise.
Desktop Analytics offers the following advantages
- Device and software inventory - Inventory of key factors such as applications and Windows versions.
- Driver Identification - Identifies the smallest set of devices with the broadest coverage of factors. It focuses on the most important factors for a driver for Windows upgrades and updates; this allows you to proceed more quickly and confidently with large production deployments.
- Problem identification - Using aggregated market data, as well as data from your environment, the service predicts potential problems in getting (and staying) up to date with Windows. The service then suggests how you can avoid these problems in the future.
- Configuration Manager Integration - The cloud service activates your existing on-premises infrastructure. Use this data and analytics to deploy and manage Windows on your devices.
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