Use LANDesk® Management Suite to boost efficiency, save time, decrease costs and protect IT and user productivity with:
Beyond the Break/Fix Mentality:
These days, enterprise IT infrastructures are so heterogeneous that most IT managers could use a supplemental ulcer insurance policy. Even folks at the few enterprises not yet grappling with Macs and Unix-based operating systems still get chronic heartburn just trying to manage patches and upgrades for all the different versions of Microsoft Windows they’re supporting.
Either way, most IT departments have so much going on beyond mere OS maintenance that it’s nearly impossible to move beyond the “just fix whatever’s broken” mindset. And that’s assuming you actually have an accurate picture of how many devices are connected to your infrastructure, how many licenses you have for crucial applications, and how many of those licenses are actually being used.
But with the right solutions you can achieve what many have considered a pipe dream for far too long—you can make changes that cause IT to be viewed as a proactive operation with significant business value rather than a reactive consumer of company capital. And LANDesk Management Suite makes it possible with a multitude of notable benefits in several critical categories.
Software Asset Management:
For comprehensive Software Asset Management, combine LANDesk® Management Suite 9 with LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager to determine true software compliance at both the individual license and full product level. You’ll be able to calculate how many software licenses have been purchased and compare this to discovery and entitlement data to provide validated counts of licenses owned, discovered, and assigned. Then reclaim unused or retired licenses.
Create reports that show compliance and entitlement information—and specifically identify both the software and devices that are out of compliance. This helps you leverage both discovery data and your entitlement program to determine overall compliance and drive an active license management program.
Collect and relate key facts; contracts, warranties, proofs of purchase, licenses and product usage to complete the picture and derive validated counts backed up with appropriate documentation.
Simplified Management Infrastructure:
IT environments are becoming increasingly complex with the rising numbers of mobile devices, contract workers, and telecommuting employees. LANDesk® Management Suite helps you maintain control of both PCs and Macs with scalable, flexible solutions that can manage more core servers and synchronize them easily and quickly. It simplifies the process of assigning rights to console users and helps you ensure that they get the proper rights.
Further, the solution’s dynamic reporting capabilities help you understand underlying data to ensure you make the best possible decisions. We even provide easy-to-use reporting templates that help you get started. In addition, LANDesk Management Suite makes it easy to set up policies that manage power consumption to help your enterprise save money and reduce its carbon footprint.
Windows 7 Migration:
Many organizations avoided moving to Windows Vista, but with the advent of Windows 7 we see many companies wanting to plan and execute the migration to this new operating system.
LANDesk Management Suite enables you to prepare Windows 7 system readiness reports, implement the migration using OS provisioning, and maintain those new systems with outstanding antivirus and security solutions.
For more information, download the LANDesk Management Suite brochure or contact CreekPointe sales for a demo.
Enterprise Efficiency and Scalability:
- NEW Core synchronization—Lets you manage configurations and tasks for all of your cores from one place
- NEW Enterprise reporting—Now providing a more powerful and flexible reporting tool that is capable of displaying the data you care about in the way you need to see it
- Rollup core—Lets you collect and view data from all of your cores, providing a centralized view of your enterprise
- Management gateway technology—Gives you complete anytime, anywhere management access to users outside your corporate firewall and at geographically distributed sites
- Granular role-based administration—Makes console user management easy, secure, and flexible
- LANDesk Dynamic Preferred Server—Enables you to distribute packages with functional load balancing and fault tolerance
- Off-core inventory service—Increases efficiency by distributing inventory processing across multiple servers
- Agent watcher—Lets you restart downed agents, restore them to their original state, and alert IT staff if a user removes or tampers with oneEnterprise alerting—Helps you maintain control and keep the most important information in one easy-to-view section
Software License Monitoring:
- NEW All-new interface—Lets you see and manage data in ways that meet your singular needs: IT administrators can view the network from a product perspective, license administrators can view it from a license perspective, and managers can take an organizational or group perspective
- NEW Dynamic products—Simplify license monitoring with version wildcarding that lets you merge multiple product versions into a single, dynamic product
- NEW Return on investment (ROI) reports—Give you the information you need to manage licenses more wisely and reduce license costs. Additional reports help decrease the likelihood of being audited—as well as avoid being stuck with major fees in the event you are
- Software usage monitoring—Tells you who’s using what and how often so you can prioritize license allocation and with Asset Lifecycle Manager even reclaim licenses which are not often used
- Comprehensive license monitoring—Detects software license use with application usage, license reporting, and compliance reporting
- Hyperaware scanning—Helps you find known and unknown applications, as well as define and track previously unknown applications
Software Distribution:
- NEW Return code mapping—Defines return codes to improve application installation accuracy
- NEW MSI native support—Enables you to copy and paste MSI command line calls
- NEW Simplified work flow—Makes for easier, faster scheduling of package installations
- NEW Simplified bandwidth controls—Help you quickly, easily set bandwidth options
- Intelligent, location-aware distribution—Helps you customize configurations appropriately
- Task-based modeling—Separates package building and delivery methods to improve efficiency
- LANDesk® Targeted Multicast™—Lets you distribute large packages to multiple users with minimal bandwidth and without dedicated hardware or router reconfigurations
- LANDesk® Peer Download™—Allows you to access packages already delivered to a subnet
- Prerequisite checking and package chaining—Installs prerequisite packages and enables you to automatically install multiple packages in a single operation
- Task scheduler—Integrates with directory-service and asset-inventory databases to help you easily select targets
- Package-agnostic distribution—Deploys any package type and provides access to multi-file MSI support
- Self-service portal—Reduces help-desk incidents, empowers users to initiate approved installations, and enables faster troubleshooting via detailed histories
- Policy-based distribution—Deploys multiple software packages in a single policy and ensures the packages are available for future updating and reapplication if necessary
OS Deployment and Profile Migration:
- NEW Ultra-efficient deployment—Leverages our patented LANDesk Targeted Multicast and Preferred Server technologies to quickly get large image files onto target machines
- NEW Automated profile migration—Captures user, application, and desktop settings and files and restores them to new machines
- NEW Hardware-independent imaging—Manages a driver library and inserts only the relevant drivers at run time, then automates the SYSREP process so Windows can find them
- PXE proxy technology—Makes it a breeze to provision bare-metal machines without changing the router configurations or standing up multiple servers
- Windows PE and Linux PE support—Enables you to image up to three times faster than previously, and provides better hardware recognition and driver support
Remote Control:
- Console-based control over role-based rights—Centralizes management duties and boosts productivity
- Application-layer agent—Improves performance and prevents conflicts
- Remote management—Enables you to perform maintenance anytime with remote wake, remote reboot, and remote application launch abilities
- Integrated chat, bidirectional file transfer, and automatic session logging—Help you rapidly resolve problems and create reports and full audit trails
- Browser-based support—Lets you resolve issues anywhere on the network from any computer with a browser
- Platform flexibility—Lets you use the platform of your choice—Mac or PC—to remotely manage any system without having to jump from console to console
Inventory Management:
- Comprehensive inventory database—Lets you filter inventory data through a system with information on thousands of products and manufacturers to obtain more accurate product and file recognition with normalized data. This data can be leveraged by LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager to manage your hardware and software assets from initial request to procurement and all the way through to disposal.
- Scalable discovery—Facilitates real-time, subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices, even if those devices have a firewall enabled
- Detailed asset views—Provide asset tag, serial number, embedded pointing device, fixed-drive, and CD-ROM information
- Reporting dashboard—Helps you publish reports to a file share in HTML, PDF, DOC, RTF, or XLS formats
- Up to eight threads—Significantly improves inventory service performance
- Bandwidth efficiency—Enables automatic unmanaged device discovery (UDD), agentless inventory, and delta inventory scans with compression
LANDesk® Power Manager:
- NEW Historical tracking and reporting—Monitors actual system usage and corresponding savings at the client level
- NEW Process-sensitive policy triggers—Identify processes or applications that shouldn’t be interrupted by power policies
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