Executive Summary

OBUX is an open, vendor-neutral benchmark framework built for EUC practitioners who want a clear, objective way to measure end-user experience (EUX). It combines a standardized Windows workload with a consistent and transparent scoring methodology, making it possible to fairly compare physical PCs, VDI, DaaS, and Cloud PCs. By emulating real-world user behavior and measuring responsiveness, OBUX delivers repeatable insights that help teams pinpoint performance issues and optimize digital workspace environments with confidence.

Mission and Vision

OBUX aims to establish an industry-standard, openly documented, community-driven End User eXperience (EUX) benchmark. Inspired by benchmarks such as UserBenchmark, SPEC, and 3DMark, OBUX focuses specifically on business productivity workflows. The framework is developed and governed as a non‑profit initiative, with all methods, workloads, and scoring rules openly available. The guiding principles are transparency, repeatability, and relevance ensuring that results reflect real-world user experience and that they can be independently validated.

Introduction and Background

Measuring user experience in digital workspaces is challenging because EUX combines subjective perceptions with objective performance metrics. While infrastructure metrics such as CPU, latency, and disk throughput are easy to quantify, user perception varies across individuals and contexts. A slight delay may feel acceptable on a physical laptop, but frustrating in a remote virtual desktop.

To reliably compare environments, perceived user experience must be translated into quantitative, reproducible metrics. OBUX addresses this by executing a structured set of real-world tasks, ranging from instant UI interactions to more complex file operations, and capturing precise timing for each action. This allows environments to be evaluated objectively and consistently.

Beyond defining a standard, OBUX is designed for practical use. Running the benchmark is intentionally simple and comparable to established tools such as UserBenchmark, SPEC, or 3DMark. OBUX requires minimal setup and provides a pre-packaged workload with an integrated auto-update mechanism.

This enables IT professionals and organizations of any size to obtain an unbiased view of digital workspace performance. By making EUX measurement consistent and repeatable, OBUX supports routine performance testing as a standard operational practice rather than a specialist task.

The long-term goal is for EUX data to serve as a core input for IT decision-making, supporting platform selection, capacity planning, performance incident analysis, and ongoing optimization.