One of the most impactful areas of investment in Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.5 is Insights — providing both real-time operational visibility and executive-level intelligence across Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 environments.
These capabilities help organisations move from reactive administration to data-driven optimisation.
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⚡ Real-Time Insights (Operational Visibility)
Real-Time Insights give administrators immediate visibility into the live health of their environments, including:
- AVD session hosts and Cloud PCs
- Session availability and connectivity
- CPU, memory, disk, and GPU health
- Critical vs healthy resource states
- Last-seen and availability status
Why This Matters
- Faster identification of performance issues
- Reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR)
- Proactive remediation before users are impacted
- Single-pane-of-glass visibility across AVD and Windows 365
💡 This is especially valuable for environments with GPU workloads, large host pools, or global user bases.
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📊 Executive Insights (Public Preview)
The Executive Insights view (Public Preview) is designed for IT leaders, finance teams, and decision-makers, translating technical activity into business-relevant metrics.
Key metrics include:
- Total AVD cost
- Projected native Azure cost
- Nerdio-attributed savings
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Cost breakdown by host pools, storage, images, and log analytics
Business Value
- Clear visibility into cost optimisation impact
- Data-backed justification for AVD and Nerdio investments
- Simplified reporting for leadership and stakeholders
- Improved alignment between IT operations and financial governance
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⚙️ Costs & Efficiency: Operational Efficiency Insights (Public Preview)
The Operational Efficiency view highlights something often overlooked in cloud cost discussions:
Administrator time and effort.
This view provides insights into:
- Efficiency Index (overall operational health)
- Administrator time savings
- Manual action reduction percentage
- Administrator action savings over time
Why This Is Powerful
- Quantifies automation benefits in real terms
- Demonstrates reduction in manual effort
- Helps justify standardisation and automation initiatives
- Supports business cases beyond raw Azure cost savings
💡 This is particularly valuable when demonstrating ROI to leadership — showing not just money saved, but time reclaimed.
Nerdio KB: Insights: Costs and efficiency – Nerdio Manager for Enterprise
🧠 Bringing It All Together
With Real-Time Insights, Executive Insights, and Operational Efficiency, NME 7.5 enables organisations to:
- Monitor environments in real time
- Make informed, data-driven decisions
- Demonstrate measurable ROI
- Optimise both cloud spend and operational effort
- Mature from reactive operations to strategic AVD management
🚀 FABS Solutions Perspective
At FABS Solutions, we see these Insights capabilities as a major step forward in helping customers:
- Move beyond “keeping AVD running”
- Proactively optimise performance and cost
- Communicate value clearly to stakeholders
- Align AVD operations with business outcomes
Combined with Nerdio’s automation, scaling, and security features, NME 7.5 positions Insights as a core operational pillar — not just a reporting add-on.
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