PCmover Enterprise Resources
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PCmover Enterprise Datasheet (PDF)
Learn about the features and benefits of the latest version of PCmover Enterprise and the new Policy Manager. -
Laplink PC Lifecycle Solutions Datasheet (PDF)
Laplink Software is the market leader in providing enterprise-class PC lifecycle solutions that save time and money for businesses by automating critical processes for OS upgrades, PC refreshes, PC backup, and asset disposition.
PCmover Enterprise User Documentation
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PCmover Enterprise Reviewers Guide (PDF -
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Read up on the PC Migration market and see why PCmover is the only migration utility to move, copy and transfer programs, files and settings. -
User Guides and Documentation
This easy-to-follow Quick Start Guide provides all the information you'll need to effectively install, run and operate PCmover. -
PCmover Enterprise User Guide (PDF -
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Use this handy guide to become a PCmover expert and learn how to use PCmover, from its basic to most advanced features -
End User License Agreement - EULA (PDF -
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This document describes PCmover Licensing agreements.
Laplink White Papers
Deployment Costs (PDF - 1MB)
Learn the capabilities, processes and tips for completing a successful migration with PCmover Enterprise.
Save $300 (PDF - 165KB)
In new Windows PC deployments, save $300 per PC.
The Upgrade Dilemma (PDF - 1MB)
Whether moving between PCs or upgrading an existing PC, only PCmover offers options to minimize cost and aggravation as well as saving a substantial amount of time and ensuring no data, settings, or applications are lost in the process.
The Imaging Dilemma (PDF - 1MB)
Learn how to solve a major gap in imaging software with PCmover Image Assistant, the only way to restore an image of a PC running XP or Vista to a Windows 7 PC.
The PCmover Value Quadrant (PDF - 1MB)
A Short Analysis of customer value in PC Migrations
PCmover Case Studies
There is no doubt that PCmover will save you time and money when you need a migration solution for your organization. For this reason, companies from both public, private, Profit and Non-Profit sectors have all adopted PCmover. These organizations include such high profile companies as Federal Express, Northwestern University, Marriott International, IBM, National Semiconductor, Xerox, University of California - Berkeley, and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Case Study Information
To see an example of how PCmover can work for your organization, simply select a business category that matches your organization and learn how organizations like yours saved time and money when they started using PCmover.
Education
Government
Enterprises
IT Service Provider
Healthcare
Problem
Copying and moving applications, files and settings from an old PC to a brand new one manually is a hassle that costs organizations money, time, employee productivity and the availability of their IT Department. For an educational facility such as an institute, research facility or university, where PCs are relied upon for advanced security and user access settings, as well as up-to-date and often customized applications and files, the migration process becomes even more complex and troublesome.
Solution
Whether switching over or recycling outdated computers, upgrading to a new version of a particular software such as Adobe or Microsoft Office, or synchronizing and updating files and user, network or security settings on a set of computers, PCmover is the key to getting the job done quickly, easily and automatically. Rather than manually setting up every single computer in your organization, one by one, IT staff are able to use PCmover to specify what they want migrated, which computers they want it migrated to and when they want the migration process to take place. Pcmover takes care of the rest, so your IT department and the rest of your employees can focus on more important tasks.
Results
Find out how PCmover saved Cornell University an estimated $13,500 and 135 hours in PC-moving costs, while switching to 45 new PCs. Click here for the Case Study (186 KB PDF).
Problem
Copying and moving applications, files and settings from an old PC to a brand new one manually is a hassle that costs organizations money, time, employee productivity and the availability of their IT Department. For a Government department or organization especially, where access to specific and often customized applications, files and advanced security and user settings is required across a huge network of PCs, the migration challenge often becomes the migration nightmare!
Solution
Why not save your Government organization time, money and stress by switching to PCmover? With PCmover, IT staff can specify what they want migrated, which computers they want it migrated to and when they want the migration process to take place. PCmover takes care of the rest, so your IT department and the rest of your employees can focus on serving the public.
Results
Find out how PCmover saved the Idaho Department of Health & Wellness an estimated $189,000 and over 2700 hours in PC replacement costs, while switching to 900 new PCs. Click here for the Case Study ( 136 KB PDF).
Problem
AIG Retirement turned to PCmover Enterprise to solve a painful, costly PC refresh problem for remote sales agents that continually resulted in days of end-user downtime and significant hard-dollar costs. In addition to the downtime, AIG Retirement was shipping a "loaner" PC to remote users for use while their PC refresh took place at corporate by an on-site IT professional. Not only did AIG Retirement want to eliminate the shipping costs and downtime associated with their " remote" PC refresh program, they wanted to provide the service in a manner that required less involvement from IT staff.
Solution
AIG Retirement elected to use PCmover Enterprise for a small pilot program, launching nationally after results showed strong cost savings, user satisfaction, and decreased support calls for every migration performed. Now, when new PCs are shipped to the remote user, an email with instructions on upgrading the PC properly is sent along with PCmover and a Laplink USB cable. Instead of shipping the PC back to corporate HQ, the user plugs in the USB cable to both the "old" and "new" PC, follows the migration prompts, and completes the migration with remote support from AIG IT staff (if requested). With PCmover Enterprise, AIG Retirement's remote user base now manages the migration process on their own, automatically transferring over their custom software, data, settings, and user accounts automatically without on-site IT assistance. This includes the automatic migration of installed software, such as Lotus Notes, MS Office, and other in-house developed applications that would otherwise be painful to re-install and configure manually, leaving the user with a PC that looks and feels identical to the old.
Results
By using the automated, repeatable PCmover driven refresh procedure managed by remote sales agents, AIG Retirement has managed to save over $150 in shipping, eliminated 2 post-migration IT support requests, and reduce end-user downtime to two hours or less for each PC refreshed in the field.
Problem
Copying and moving applications, files and settings from an old PC to a brand new one manually is a hassle that costs organizations money, time, employee productivity and the availability of their IT Department. For an IT Service Provider especially, handling such an important yet extremely time-consuming and stressful task for a client can be a hassle. Manually upgrading or updating the software, files and user settings across dozens of computers for several clients in several geographic locations can take hours, if not days and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, even if done remotely. Meanwhile, investing in a specialized corporate tool is often less time consuming, but even more costly, as corporate migration utilities often sell at a high price point and still don't give users the ability to transfer software across multiple computers, as only files and settings can be transferred.
Solution
Why not save you business time, money and stress by switching to PCmover? With PCmover Enterprise, IT staff can specify what they want migrated, which computers they want it migrated to and when they want the migration process to take place. PCmover takes care of the rest, so your IT staff can focus on more complex issues and help more clients in a typical workday.
Results
Find out how IT Service Provider AOS Web-Com saved its business $20,000 and passed over $400 of savings per customer in its first year of using PCmover. Click here for the Case Study (78 KB PDF).
Problem
Children's Hospital in Boston was looking to provide a full and complete PC migration process for end-users receiving a new PC, as IT staff and end-users were allocating a "significant" amount of resources for each PC refreshed or recycled. This impacted clinical and physician work due to downtime restrictions, as PCs are critical tools necessary to meet the standard delivery of care to patients across all visits. After evaluating the Microsoft User State Migration Tool, Children's Hospital of Boston found the cost of customization, maintenance, and support for a vanilla tool would require a full-time development resource with certified XML expertise, not to mention the time needed to build, test, and deploy. In addition to the cost of building and supporting a custom tool, moving applications with the USMT was quickly understood to be impossible, thus forcing end-users and technicians to manually re-install and update software themselves manually.
Solution
By choosing PCmover Enterprise, Children's Hospital of Boston is providing full and complete migration experience to physicians, clinical staff, and operational staff without the need to build, support, and maintain a custom user migration utility that does not transfer installed applications.
Results
Without the need to re-install software manually after a migration has taken place with PCmover Enterprise, physicians and clinical specialists can now get back to working with ptients quickly after receiving a new PC. More importantly, Children's Hospital of Boston can now provide such a service without becoming "migration utility experts", instead focusing resources to continually improve the quality of patient care, service delivery, and cost management.
PCmover Enterprise Tutorial Series
The PCmover Enterprise migration solution is broken up into two parts, the "PCmover Client" and the "Policy Manager". The PCmover Enterprise Client is the application that is used to migrate applications, users, files, and settings from an old to new PC automatically. The Policy Manager is available to network administrators or desktop support technicians to configure the PCmover Client, such as hiding specific steps from users, defining what options can and cannot be selected, map users, setting up reports and notifications, or building custom filters.
Please refer to the following set of tutorials to best understand the PCmover Enterprise implementation process within your organization. If you have more specific questions or require further assistance, please contact us.
PCmover Enterprise Client Tutorials
- General PCmover Enterprise Client Overview (2:26)
- Run PCmover Enterprise Client from Network or External Drive
- Pre-Migration Checklist
Policy Manager Tutorials
- General Policy Manager Overview (4:38)
- Saving a Master Policy File (0:50)
- Creating an Application Filter list policies (0:37)
- Creating a Directory Filter list policies (0:48)
- Predefine User Mapping policies (1:08)
- Configuring a policy for a File Based migration (1:22)
- Hiding the User Interface, Messages and other elements (0:57)
- Setting up email notifications and messages (1:02)
- Enabling auto-generated reports (1:27)
Documentation (PDF)
