Nerdio Compass is a free discovery and assessment tool that helps IT teams understand their existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) estate, and, for non-Microsoft environments, confidently plan a path to Windows Cloud - Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, or a hybrid of the two. Compass connects to your environment, analyzes its structure, configuration, workloads, and costs, and surfaces migration readiness scores and optimization opportunities, without requiring any agent deployment or professional services engagement to get started.
Using Nerdio Compass, you can:
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Discover your environment's structure, configuration, and dependencies across Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Microsoft Intune
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Assess migration readiness for each delivery group or workload, with per-group scoring and recommended Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop SKU mappings
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Analyze cost signals to understand what your current environment costs to run today, and where savings may exist after migration
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Surface policy complexity and configuration debt in your existing infrastructure before it becomes a migration blocker
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Visualize your estate's geographic distribution to plan phased, multi-region rollouts
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Move from discovery to a confident modernization plan: Compass is built to support continuous decision-making, not just a single point-in-time assessment.
Compass connects to your existing environment - either directly or by importing a snapshot export - and builds a comprehensive inventory across catalogs, session hosts, delivery groups, and resource assignments. This gives you foundational visibility into how your estate is built today: key components, workload layout, and dependencies, along with session behavior and workload profiles that matter when evaluating modernization paths.
The Migration Readiness assessment evaluates each delivery group's readiness for migration to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, scoring factors such as provisioning type, session model, and access complexity, and grouping results into High, Medium, and Low readiness tiers. Windows 365 Mapping data recommends the appropriate Windows 365 SKU per machine, and the RemoteApps & Cloud Apps assessment reviews published applications for migration readiness.
Compass analyzes your existing policy configuration - not just your environment structure - surfacing how policies are applied across your deployment and translating them to their Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 equivalents. This gives you actionable insight into where policy complexity has accumulated and what needs to be addressed before you modernize with confidence.
The Costs view gives you a clear picture of what your current VDI environment actually costs to run, using default pricing assumptions you can adjust to match your real contracts and licensing. This is the data behind a business case for modernization, and a way to understand where budget is going today.
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