Lifecycle Management

Effective deployment and ongoing management of IT systems is a complex challenge, often involving significant manual effort, cost and risk associated with change. Altiris solutions help to standardize IT lifecycle management, helping IT organizations streamline operations, reduce costs and improve the quality of service delivered. Altiris software offers customers a unique approach with modular, integrated solutions for managing IT assets from request through retirement.

IT lifecycle management helps you control IT systems and manage changes to the environment. It involves configuring clients and servers, adopting structured change management and streamlining operations.

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
• Process-oriented software packaging
• Policy-based software delivery
• Proactive installation state management
• Automated patch management
• Advanced software virtualization technology

Benefits

Altiris helps organizations accomplish this by automating every aspect of IT lifecycle management. This helps IT organizations to streamline operations, reduce costs, improve quality of service and maintain a stable operating environment. Customers who use Altiris solutions to manage their IT environments:

• Standardize IT systems and processes
• Reduce the cost of IT operations
• Reduce the number of applications, hardware platforms and operating systems
• Improve service levels and efficiency
• Reduce the number of vendors

Despite the cost savings, many organizations don’t know where to begin. How can organizations effectively manage IT assets? The answer is simple: Altiris lifcycle management solutions.