Case Study: Government organization achieves rapid, auditable workstation compliance with IFS assyst

Finding the balance between compliance and flexibility

Government Organization faced strict regulatory, security and software‑license requirements and needed to refresh and maintain 10,000 desktop assets without disrupting public services. With 8,000 staff and about 500 monthly application‑install requests overwhelming IT, manual onsite installs were impractical. The organization engaged IFS assyst, using assyst automation and the assyst Service Catalog, to achieve fast, repeatable compliance while preserving user flexibility.

IFS assyst implemented centrally deployed departmental workstation images, automated discovery and compliance auditing, and an assyst Service Catalog “Software Shop” to give controlled access to approved apps. The result: full, auditable compliance within 18 months, automated ongoing checks that configure new machines on plug‑in, and 1,500 workstations deployed in two months (a task that would have taken 10–12 months manually), drastically reducing manual install effort and freeing IT to focus on improvement projects while improving end‑user choice and productivity.