09 March 2009

ChangeBASE
AOK, the leaders in automated application and virtualisation compatibility
software, today announces a new suite of compatibility plug-ins that test for
and fix compatibility issues between an application estate and the new Windows
7 platform.
ChangeBASE
also releases a white paper with detailed information on the compatibility challenges
organisations will face when looking to get applications to work with Windows 7,
based on the results of testing AOK with multiple applications in their Application
Compatibility Lab.
Highlights
from this paper include:-
· To migrate to Windows 7 an organisation will
need to surmount all the compatibility challenges an application may have when targeting a Vista operating
platform, AND address any problems with applications not being developed to
work with the new Windows 7 compatibility rules. Between 60-80% of applications
running on XP or earlier operating systems will need some remediation to meet
the requirements to be deployable tothe new O/S . Up to 5% of total
applications have issues that mean they will not work at all and will require
vendor or programmer intervention.
· 8% of applications will be affected by the
additional requirements necessary to comply with Windows 7, above and beyond
those application issues apparent withVISTA, based on the current beta release
and published documentation. The white
paper details these potential issues.
· AOK automates remediation of the application to
address these issues where possible. For
the remainder, organisations will need to revert to the vendors for upgrades or
work with the in-house development teams to remediate the problems. The detailed information AOK provides on
these compatibility issues will greatly simplify the fixing process.
ChangeBASE also announce a specific
partner program to help organisations with the assessment and remediation work
using AOK.
ChangeBASE is a Microsoft Gold
partner and is supported by Microsoft on the Windows 7 adoption program
Other partners supporting this
program include:-
· Accenture
· Dimension Data
· EOH Gallium
· Satyam
· Getronics
· Klokwork


These partners have in depth
knowledge of ChangeBASE AOK and the Win 7 compatibility Plug-Ins they have
released.
Commenting on these
announcements, John Tate, Managing Director of ChangeBASE stated: ‘We have
implemented VISTA in our own business and this offers significant enhancements
in key areas of productivity, security, and functionality that enterprises are
looking to take advantage of. The challenge is to ensure their applications will
work on this and the new Windows 7 platform. AOK allows organisations to rapidly
assess the suitability of a company’s applications and then automate the
remediation of these for the new O/S’s. This will help their decision making,
and drive adoption.’
‘It’s really important to understand though,
that it is the diverse nature of enterprise application estates that make
migration such a painful subject, not changes to the O/S itself’, he concluded.

About ChangeBASE Limited
Founded in 2006 and Headquartered in London, England, ChangeBASE is the
provider and developer of AOK, a product that automates the management and
upgrade of applications in a Microsoft environment.
ChangeBASE counts Dimension Data, SCC, Satyam,
Getronics, Symantec, and Microsoft as partners and GSK, Astra Zeneca and Man
Investments amongst its enterprise customers.

For more information, interviews and images please visit www.changebase.comor contact:
John Tate, Managing
Director ChangeBASE. john.tate ( -at -) changebase.com(00 44) 7730 816912Or

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