Systems Lifecycle Management
Brings BigFix economics and operational excellence to key IT Operations management functions including asset discovery/inventory , software license management, power management, software distribution, and patch management. Consolidating and streamlining the most common IT operational processes, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy enabling IT departments to ensure service levels, focus on strategic tasks, and ensure overall operating efficiency.
Features
- Real-time visibility into desktop, server and mobile computers
- Single agent, single console technology platform
- Continuous, pervasive configuration policy enforcement
- IP-enabled and rogue network device discovery
- Hardware and software inventory and software usage tracking
- Software distribution and policy-based software provisioning
- Software patch management and security update delivery for major operating systems and common commercially-available applications
- Endpoint power management combining policy-based energy conservation and BigFix Wake-on-LAN technologies
- Custom policy creation and enforcement
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Benefits
- Consolidate and simplify key system management services enterprise-wide
Real-time visibility into endpoint client (desktop, mobile/laptop, server) configuration specifications
- Immediate ROI through Power Management, Software License Metering/EULA true-ups, and Asset Discovery.
- Longer term ROI through resource reduction, server consolidation, and proven operational efficiencies
- Manage heterogeneous (Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS) asset bases from the BigFix Console
- “Instant on" for immediate time-to-implementation
- Shorten software update cycles from weeks to days and hours
- Extend system management to mobile clients on- or off-enterprise network
- Set alarms to instantly notify administrators of anomalous conditions or suspected rogue activities
- Enhance and improve effectiveness of widely available configuration management solutions such as BMC Marimba, HP Business Technology Optimization, IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Windows SMS/SUS/SCCM, etc.
- Integrate BigFix system configuration data with third party correlation and reporting tools
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