Vendor Analysis
published on Mar 30, 2012
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes CSC's offerings and capabilities in Virtual Desktop Services. CSC is one of a number of Virtual Desktop Services companies analyzed in NelsonHall's comprehensive industry analysis programs.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's Virtual Desktop Vendor Assessment for CSC is a comprehensive assessment of CSC's virtual desktop offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of virtual desktop services and identifying vendor suitability for IT services, end-user computing services and virtual desktop technology and services
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of CSC's virtual desktop offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Analysis of the company's offerings and key service components
- Revenue estimates
- Identification of the company's strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the profile of the company's customer base including the company's targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company's strengths, weaknesses and outlook.
Key Findings & Highlights:
CSC virtual desktop offerings focus on its Dynamic Desktop portfolio. CSC has expanded the choice of technology used in Dynamic Desktop, from Citrix-based only VDI and server-based computing to include VMware View (VDI). It has created two specific offerings: Citrix Series and VMware Series.
CSC's virtual desktop offering can be accommodated by client datacenters, third party datacenters or datacenters located in CSC premises.
CSC is initially focusing on its IT outsourcing client base. Examples of clients show a dominance of clients with which CSC has an IT outsourcing relationship.