By applying such automations plus other key scripts and EXEs, companies reduce time to market, minimize the complexity of change management and limit support costs. The ability to automate an extensive part of the process allows for more agility regarding evolving business needs, meeting end of lease compliance requirements or providing for quick-yet-controlled expansion.

Our TCO example applies documented Persystent user results as well as industry averages with regard to a 3 year replace/refresh cycle, time to make a box user ready–about an hour and a half– and IT support salaries. It also assumes 3% per year growth in either headcount or general costs. In an 10,000 PC enterprise fleet, IT is tasked with refreshing a bit more than 3300 PCs each and every year. That is roughly the equivalent of 5000 man hours–that’s about 416 hours each month or about the FTE of 2.5 professionals solely dedicated to this assignment. From a conservative cost standpoint, you are looking at an investment of $54 per device or nearly $180,000 each year. This is the time and cost to get a compliant box into production. It is understood that includes several key tasks such as components of the OS need to be updated or possibly replacing (in the case of a Windows 8 to 10 upgrade), there are security encryptions, SaaS and legacy applications or revised processes, etc…Automation creates the beneficial efficiencies and repeatable, predictable task sequencing to consolidate the end-to-end process by upwards of 75%. From a TCO perspective that is reducing the cost to half an FTE…or about $36,000 per year. But this is not about reducing headcount but re-prioritizing staff to finally address higher value, revenue generating tasks all the while ensuring each device that moves into production is homogeneous with the company’s unique needs and performance parameters…and put into production.