Software Management

Managing an organization’s vast software assets is a complex challenge. Effective software management is a set of integrated activities that increase IT effectiveness and reduce support costs. It offers proactive control over software assets which means IT spends less time in reactive fire fighting. Altiris’ modular, integrated solutions give organizations a process for managing software assets from audit through retirement.

Many events are great opportunities for reevaluating software management. Such events include OS migrations, such as Microsoft Vista; recurring issues with distributing patches; high support costs for diagnosing deployment issues; and the need for accurate inventories for license compliance audits.

Good software management helps you control your software assets and reduces the daily struggle to monitor, diagnose and fix the constant issues that occur.  By following a structured software management process, you reduce the time your IT team spends fire fighting, and you offer a higher level of service to your end users and business customers.

Benefits

Customers who use Altiris solutions to automate and manage their IT environments can:

• Standardize IT systems and processes
• Reduce the cost of IT operations
• Reduce the number of applications, hardware platforms and operating systems
• Ensure compliance with vendor license agreements
• Improve service levels and efficiency
• Reduce the number of vendors

Altiris solutions work together to help you manage your IT systems with:

• A single, Web-based console
• A centralized configuration management database and definitive software library
• Altiris Extensible Management Architecture™
• Connectors to third-party data sources
• Automated deployment and migration
• Integrated license auditing for software inventory and compliance
• Process-oriented software packaging
• Policy-based software delivery
• Proactive installation state management
• Automated patch management
• Advanced software virtualization technology