"Businesses wanting to save hours of tedious system reconstruction should find PCmover a blissfully simple, remarkably effective time saver."
- Ross Rubin, Engadget Columnist
Every hour of lost productivity costs your business money, and when it takes a day or more for an employee to regain productivity after a computer upgrade, that affects your bottom line. If you're paying an IT professional to sit in front of each computer and migrate everything manually, that costs your business even more.
In fact, Gartner Research estimates that this lost productivity from performing migrations manually, costs the average organisation around £150 per PC migration.
PCmover from Laplink is the only migration utility that moves programs, files and settings from an old PC to a new one. PCmover can migrate across a network, using a Laplink USB or parallel cable, Windows Easy Transfer Cable or any type of removable media that can be read by both PCs.
Where a computer has multiple users, PCmover gives the option to select users for migration. The security information about file ownership and access control is preserved for each user.
Quick Comparisons
Software Features at a Glance
Feature
Benefit
Automatic migration of user’s applications, data and settings
Leave PCmover running unattended at the end of the day – return in the morning to a fully functional new PC
Site licence option
Organisations can migrate an unlimited number of PCs at a low, fixed cost, without paying a licence fee for each PC to be migrated
Broad OS version support
Enables organisations to easily migrate users from Windows 95 and above to new PCs running the latest version of Windows
PCmover in the Enterprise
PCmover is a timesaving, cost-effective complement to existing enterprise migration solutions. PCmover works with these solutions in two ways:
PCmover is the easiest way to effect individual migrations (as opposed to enterprise-wide upgrades). While dedicated enterprise solutions such as Altiris are ideal for large-scale migrations of hundreds or even thousands of PCs, PCmover remains the most cost-effective, reliable, and expedient method of performing a one-to-one PC migration.
Too many enterprises are still using imaging utilities such as Norton Ghost to imperfectly migrate data to new PCs, leaving behind many of the unique applications and “personality” of the older machine. These must then be painstakingly and manually moved to the new machine before the computer can be turned over to the user. By using PCmover to capture the data that Norton Ghost left behind, IT professionals can significantly reduce the total time required to complete a migration.
PCmover is not designed to be the right solution for enterprise-wide upgrades. However, for an enterprise that occasionally or regularly requires individual, one-to-one PC migration, PCmover is ideal. PCmover can also be used in conjunction with Norton Ghost or other imaging utilities to reduce the time and labour required for larger-scale enterprise migrations.
