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25 years igniting enterprise innovation. We go #BeyondApplications to revolutionise IT. Empowering UK businesses for AI, automation & sustainable growth.

[Camwood @Camwood]

Your vendor says it's critical.

Your environment says it's not installed.

Guess which one matters?

73% of 'critical' patches affect applications enterprises don't even use.

Context beats vendor anxiety. Every time.

#PatchManagement #CyberSecurity #ITOps

[Camwood @Camwood]

2025 ➡️ 2026

Thank you for an incredible year. Here's to new challenges, new wins, and fewer legacy applications. 😉

Happy New Year from Camwood! 🥂

#HappyNewYear #2026 #NewBeginnings

[Camwood @Camwood]

IT budget requests that fail
“We need Windows 11” ✗
“We need patch automation” ✗

IT budget requests that win
“Avoid £513K in waste” ✓
“Prevent £840K in security incidents” ✓

Same work. Different language.
In 2026, stop asking for tech. Sell outcomes.

#ITBudget #2026Plan

[Camwood @Camwood]

Merry Christmas from everyone at Camwood! 🎄🎁

Wishing you a day filled with joy, rest, and absolutely zero critical alerts.

See you on the other side!

#MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays

[Camwood @Camwood]

Christmas Eve reminder: Close the laptop. The tickets can wait. 🎄

To everyone keeping systems running today—you're appreciated more than you know.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Camwood.

#MerryChristmas #ITLife

[Camwood @Camwood]

Your spreadsheet says 127 apps.
Automated discovery finds 847.

That’s 720 invisible apps still:
• burning £1.2M in licences
• eating 280 IT hours/month
• carrying known CVEs
• owned by no one

Your inventory isn’t wrong when you start it.
It’s wrong when you finish it.

[Camwood @Camwood]

Festive season mode: activated 🎄

Big thanks to our amazing team and everyone who's trusted us this year. You make what we do worthwhile.

Wishing you all a wonderful break ahead!

#TeamCamwood #FestiveSeason

[Camwood @Camwood]

3:47am. Phone rings
Critical vuln. Active exploit. Patch now
Six hours awake. Manual deploy. Tests. Prayers

Or

3:52am. Automation detects it
6:15am. Patch deployed and validated
9am. Report in your inbox
Same security. Zero 3am calls
How many did your team handle last year?

[Camwood @Camwood]

97% patch compliance? CFO says: so what.

Try this:
£580K → £180K annual patching cost
3 prevented incidents = £1.2M risk avoided
3,750 → 500 hours freed for real work
£0 in regulatory fines

IT metrics don’t win budget.
Cost, risk and capacity do.

Speak finance.

[Camwood @Camwood]

Manual management of 1,000 apps takes 3,750 hours a year.
Automated ALM cuts that to 500.

That’s 3,250 hours back—about 2 full-time roles.
87% time saved. 71% cost saved.

Imagine what your team could build with that capacity.

#ALM #Automation #ITEfficiency #Productivity

[Camwood @Camwood]

Patch approvals every Tuesday at 10am.

Vulnerability announced Monday?

Six days exposed.

Speed and governance can coexist.
Intelligent automation ships critical patches in hours, not weeks.
99.5% compliance. No bottlenecks.

How long do yours wait?

#PatchManagement

[Camwood @Camwood]

"Our ALM tool will integrate with everything!"

Reality:
• APIs exist
• Documentation doesn't
• Edge cases break
• Custom work needed

Integration isn't magic. It's engineering.

#ALM #Integration #RealityCheck

[Camwood @Camwood]

Remote work changed patch management:
• Can't rely on office network
• VPN too slow for updates
• Users close laptops mid-patch

Solution: Cloud-native patching that works anywhere

#RemoteWork #PatchManagement

[Camwood @Camwood]

AVD packaging ≠ desktop packaging

Requirements:
• MSIX app attach for modern apps
• FSLogix masking for access control
• Traditional install for legacy apps

Different environment = different approach

#AVD #ApplicationPackaging

[Camwood @Camwood]

Modern ALM isn't isolated from development.

It integrates with CI/CD pipelines.

Applications move smoothly: Dev ? Test ? Prod

No more environment inconsistencies breaking deployments.

#ALM #DevOps #CICD

[Camwood @Camwood]

'Just use MSIX for everything on Windows 11!'

Reality check:
- 40% of enterprise apps don't convert cleanly
- Driver dependencies break
- Complex installers fail

MSIX is powerful. It's not universal.

Choose the right format for each app.

#MSIX #ApplicationPackaging #Windows11

[Camwood @Camwood]

Client had 47 different PDF readers deployed across their estate.

Forty. Seven.

Each requiring updates, licensing, support.

We consolidated to 1.

That's not application management. That's application sanity.

#ALM #ApplicationRationalisation

[Camwood @Camwood]

MSIX, App-V, MSI, or IntuneWin?

The packaging format you choose affects:
- Deployment success rate
- User experience
- Long-term maintenance overhead

Wrong choice = failed deployments and helpdesk chaos

#ApplicationPackaging #MSIX #Intune

[Camwood @Camwood]

Your team spends 3,750 hours yearly managing 1,000 applications manually.

Automated ALM: 500 hours for the same estate.

That's 3,250 hours! nearly 2 FTEs! Returned to strategic work.

What would your team do with 87% more time?

#ApplicationManagement #Automation #ITEfficiency

[Camwood @Camwood]

By 2026, application intelligence will be as essential as antivirus was in 2005. Without ALI, organisations will be vulnerable, inefficient, and uncompetitive. Early adopters are already ahead, laggards will struggle to catch up. What IT capability will be next?
#2026Predictions