I have been travelling around the country again with Microsoft presenting on Business Desktop Deployment.

 

One of the questions that regularly comes up in discussions is "How much is this going to cost?" and then following that is "How do I justify the expense/time?"

 

I was looking for some "facts" to back up my belief that the short term pain of getting BDD implemented was offset by the benefit long term and came across a Gartner study commisioned by Intel and Microsoft that has a few case studies based around the Gartner Total Value of Opportunity. Click Here to read it.