Complex interaction of AHP technique and SWOT – analysis for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

Abstract

VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) offers great opportunities for transforming the educational environment to academic institutions. This respectively new technology provides hardware resources consolidation and makes desktop administration more centralized and transparent for IT stuff. It represents a major transformation of the organization's IT-infrastructure. The scale of implementation in each organization may vary depending on different factors specific for an educational institution. The strategy of IT-infrastructure transformation can be considered as a component of the overall development strategy so formal analysis by means SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) method can be applied. Different positive and negative aspects of the technology have been grouped and presented as a SWOT factors. VDI implementation options is considered strategy alternalives. AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) technique allows to evaluate each strategy alternative with respect to each SWOT factor and select the best one of them.