Case Study: The City of Oklahoma City achieves 95% faster application packaging and $97K Windows 7 migration savings with Flexera AdminStudio

The City of Oklahoma City Saved Time and Reduced Costs to Prepare Applications for Migration

The City of Oklahoma City, a local government serving more than half a million residents with over 4,000 employees, faced a major IT challenge: with an ~80-person IT department reduced by recent cuts, they had to migrate more than 3,000 desktops and roughly 75 supported applications to Windows 7 and evaluate App‑V virtualization — a process that would have taken about 50 man‑hours per application if done manually and was therefore infeasible.

They implemented AdminStudio to automate application readiness and App‑V conversion (integrating with SCCM), cutting packaging time from ~50 to ~2 hours per application (a >95% reduction). That yielded roughly $1,300 saved per app and about $97,000 for the Windows 7 migration, about $2,600/month in ongoing repackaging savings, enabled a timely rollout and application virtualization efforts, and won management praise for improved turnaround and cost‑cutting.

The City of Oklahoma City

Shamra Noakes

Client Infrastructure Manager, The City of Oklahoma City