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Altiris Client Management Suite

Altiris Client Management Suite is an easy-to-use systems management solution that reduces the total cost of ownership for desktops, notebooks, and handheld devices. Developed for IT professionals who manage computing devices on a regular basis, the suite enables administrators to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot systems from virtually anywhere.

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Altiris Handheld Management Suite

Altiris Handheld Management Suite software is an easy-to-use set of systems management tools designed to reduce high ownership costs, strengthen corporate data security, and increase productivity for a highly mobile workforce. Developed for IT professionals who manage a heterogeneous computing environment, the suite enables administrators to discover, manage, and secure Windows Mobile based Pocket PCs, Palm OS, and BlackBerry handheld assets from virtually anywhere.

Robust discovery of handheld assets
Comprehensive hardware and software inventory with Web-based reporting
Policy-based software management
Enforcement of strong password authentication
Encryption of sensitive corporate data
Lock down or bit wipe lost or stolen devices
Bandwidth-sensitive device management for mobile workforce and roaming workers
Centralized management of mixed hardware, OS, and device types from a central console

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Altiris IT Analytics Solution

IT Analytics Solution software enables users to maximize the value of the data that resides within the Altiris system by incorporating multidimensional analysis and robust graphical reporting features. This allows users to explore the Altiris CMDB without advanced knowledge of databases or third-party reporting tools, empowering them to ask and answer their own questions quickly, easily, and effectively.

Complement Altiris solutions' relational reporting with fast and flexible analytics
Analyze data from a multidimentional model
Powerful on-the-fly ad-hoc reporting with pivot tables
Precompiled aggregations for fast answers to typically long-running queries
Easy export to .PDF, Excel, .CSV and .TIF files

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Altiris Privilege Management Essentials

Altiris Privilege Management Essentials software delivers advanced software control and local password management to your PC lifecycle management portfolio to ensure higher levels of security and manageability. This combination of features helps reduce the desktop attack surface, day-to-day help desk calls, and unwanted software.

Granular control over how an application functions on the system
Creates a barrier to vulnerability applications and malicious software and activities
Prevents inadvertent or intentional tampering of system resources and settings
Helps avoid the need for administrative privileges in common usage situations

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Altiris Recovery Solution

Altiris Recovery Solution protects your organization's desktops, notebooks and servers with scheduled backups, allowing you to recover lost data or roll back to a known good state. Protection is automatic and doesn’t require user intervention. Patented data deduplication technology minimizes bandwidth and storage usage, making Recovery Solution an excellent choice for protecting remote and disconnected users.

Policy-based snapshots automatically capture changes and secure data
Rollback for fast and reliable system fixes and file recovery
Back up to a local hidden partition for those environments without LAN-based connectivity
Web-based file recovery for anytime, anywhere user self-serve access
Back up and protect the operational states of servers to ensure server consistency and increase uptime and availability
Quick restoration of clients prevents timeconsuming reinstallations and ensures business continuity
Data deduplication and forever incremental snapshots

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Altiris Service & Asset Management Suite

Altiris Service & Asset Management Suite combines enterprise asset and service management disciplines into a single Web-based architecture, repository, and console helping unite disparate departments and processes. Simplify implementation of out-of-box ITIL asset and service management processes.

Solve immediate problems while building a roadmap for the future with snap-in, modular design
Proactively resolve incidents and problems to ensure asset and service availability
Enable better business decision-making processes with real-time diagnostic information
Support corporate Sarbanes-Oxley initiatives

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Altiris Server Management Suite

Altiris Server Management Suite provides IT administrators with a comprehensive solution for managing business-critical servers and operations in their environment.

Locate and identify servers
Prepare and deploy a baseline operating system and configuration
Maintain health of servers
Patch management for Windows servers
Progressive problem resolution
Monitor critical components
Flexible alerting and reporting
Centralized management of mixed hardware and OS environments

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Altiris Workflow Solution

Altiris Workflow Solution allows non-technical business professionals to create, change, test, automate and manage the processes that drive your business. From service catalogs to hardware purchasing to tracking purchase orders, Workflow Solution allows you to manage the entire process, both the hardware and human interaction.

Automate processes quickly in a fully graphical environment that’s built for non-programmers
Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and errors with approvals, rules, timeout, and policy enforcement
Automate a full range of business decisions, including operational, productivity, and event-based rules
Create seamless processes across applications such as Microsoft Office tools, voice and Web applications, and more
Easy export to .PDF, Excel, .CSV and .TIF files

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Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition

Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 Desktop Edition enables you to restore complete Windows desktop/laptops in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments with new functionality to automate physical to virtual conversions for immediate system recovery. Additional capabilities include flexible offsite protection; integration with Symantec ThreatCon for threat-triggered backups and centralized management to help simplify administration.

Recover in minutes to same hardware, dissimilar hardware or virtual environments with Restore Anyware technology
Create real-time, while-you-work recovery points of the entire system and save to any disk-storage device
Enables offsite backup copy to an FTP location or secondary disk drive for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities
Search and retrieve files and folders in seconds via Google Desktop or Backup Exec Retrieve

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Dell Client Manager

Dell Client Manager software helps make Dell OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision workstations the easiest and most cost-effective client systems you can own. The purpose of Dell Client Manager is simple: arm IT professionals with centralized, remote control and automate common tasks associated with owning client systems. The results are powerful: far fewer deskside visits and repetitive tasks, greater visibility and control of client inventory and usage, and improved consistency and compliance in the way client systems are configured.

Generate a detailed, accurate, real-time inventory of every PC on your network
Monitor your license usage so you stay in compliance and don’t purchase more than you need
Roll out new applications in days or hours instead of weeks or months
Standardize the software packaging, delivery, and installation processes so that everything is uniform and therefore much easier to manage and support
Perform a virtually hands-free OS migration across the network

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Endpoint Protection

Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver unmatched defense against malware for laptops, desktops and servers. It seamlessly integrates essential security technologies in a single agent and management console, increasing protection and helping lower total cost of ownership.

Stops malware such as viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, adware, bots, zero-day threats and rootkits.
Prevents security outbreaks thus reducing administrative overhead.
Lowers total cost of ownership for endpoint security.

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Endpoint Protection Integration Component

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Integration Component helps facilitate migration to Symantec Endpoint Protection clients through robust delivery mechanisms that provide detailed reporting, broad deployment views (dashboards), multicasting technology, and advanced client discovery. This free component can scale for both LAN connected and remote endpoints.

Predefined software delivery tasks
Prebuilt upgrade tasks from third-party vendors
Initiate scans from the Altiris Console
Predefined client health tasks
Symantec Endpoint Protection dashboard
Role-and-scope-based security
Integration with Active Directory

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Energy Saver Toolkit

The Energy Saver Toolkit is a free utility that allows system administrators to govern power management capabilities of all desktop and system monitors throughout their corporate environment. Conserve energy, reduce costs, and help protect the environment—all from a single familiar Web-based console. The toolkit enables administrators to designate monitor shut down (sleep) policies at select intervals. The result is a low-impact method of conserving energy and reducing costs.

Shutdown policies for 10-, 15-, and 20-minute intervals
Support for Windows ME/2000/XP/Server 2003
An Energy Saver Quick Start menu for assisted roll out

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Fujitsu Siemens Computers DeskView

Combining the strengths of Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ powerful DeskView tools for accessing and managing clients with Altiris’ award-winning management console, DeskView provides unprecedented control over the Fujitsu Siemens Computers clients in your environment. Fujitsu Siemens Computers also distributes and sells the entire line of Altiris IT lifecycle management solutions and suites. Based on industry standards, DeskView manages effectively Pocket LOOX handhelds, STYLISTIC tablet PCs, Professional notebooks, FUTRO thin clients, Professional PCs and CELSIUS workstations, as well as SCENICVIEW displays.

Web-based console for hardware and software
Monitor your license usage so you stay in compliance and don’t purchase more than you need
Database repository
Management infrastructure

HP Client Manager

HP Client Manager software is a free hardware management tool for HP client computers that provides in-depth client inventory, driver and utility updating, remote BIOS management, hardware monitoring, diagnostics, and problem resolution. HP Client Manager integrates with Altiris Client Management Suite™ and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).

View detailed HP client hardware inventory
Monitor client computers and receive hardware alerts at system management console and/or local computer
Intelligently deploy HP system patches (SoftPaqs) via wizard to all HP clients
Remotely configure and flash BIOS
Manage HP ProtectTools enabled clients

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Manageability Toolkit for Intel vPro Technology

The Altiris Manageability Toolkit for Intel vPro Technology provides hardware-based manageability and proactive security for business desktop computers. Building on Altiris' award-winning manageability capabilities, the toolkit removes some of the constraints of today's manageability software by integrating support for the Intel vPro processor technology platform. The toolkit allows IT to deliver more value back to the business by using the flexibility and capability of Intel vPro processor technology-based hardware.

Simplified setup and configuration
Discovery and inventory
Remote computer management and remediation
Easy out-of-band management of Intel vPro technology capable systems
Network management and security not reliant on software agent, which minimizes end-user tampering

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Out of Band Management Solution

Altiris Out of Band Management Solution software helps you manage computers regardless of the state of their power, operating system, or management agents. This free solution allows you to provision your Intel vPro technology-based desktops into a centralized management environment so you can perform vital IT functions such as utilizing collection-based power on/off tools. The solution supports Intel vPro technology computers with Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT). By using Out of Band Management Solution with Intel vPro technology, IT can take advantage of a secure communication link using authentication and encryption.

Configure the default connection, security, and remote control power settings on client computers
Receive alerts and proactively respond to memory faults, temperature issues, hard drive warnings, chassis intrusion, and more
Provide power management capabilities such as turning on a computer before delivering a software package or performing a remote BIOS management task
Alerting and power management for ASF-based computers

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Software Virtualization Solution Professional (SVS)

Altiris Software Virtualization Solution Professional software is a revolutionary approach to software management. By placing applications and data into managed units called Virtual Software Packages, Software Virtualization Solution Professional allows you to instantly activate, deactivate or reset applications and to completely avoid conflicts between applications, without altering the base Windows installation. Application streaming provides the on-demand delivery of virtual applications. Expand the existing application virtualization functions of Client Management Suite with Software Virtualization Solution Professional.

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Wise Package Studio Pro

Wise Package Studio software, the premier application lifecycle management solution, gives you control of your organization’s applications, deployment preparation, and corporate standards.