LANDesk Systems Lifecycle Management Tools

LANDesk Management Suite provides all the client management tools you need to manage and control PCs, Macs, laptops, servers, software assets, mobile devices and more—regardless of location—from a single, intuitive console. Click on an icon to learn more.

 
 

Challenges:

  • Complex IT environments.
  • Too many tools from too many vendors.
  • Pressure to cut costs, reduce risk, boost productivity.

LANDesk Solution:

  • Manage any system anywhere at any time.
  • Distribute software packages to multiple users simultaneously.
  • Discover and manage the myriad mobile devices.
  • Monitor software licenses for all products from a license or group perspective.
  • Migrate users to Windows 7 in half the time of other solutions.
  • Resolve system issues remotely anytime, anywhere.
  • Solve problems, generate reports and create audit trails with the click of a mouse.
  • Monitor system power usage and energy savings at the client level.
 

Discovery

 
 

Challenges:

  • What do we own?
  • How can we reduce the time spent on inventorying assets?
  • We need to know if something comes on the network

LANDesk Solution:

  • Easily discover network-attached devices with both a passive and active solution
  • Discovery regardless of managed or firewalls enabled
  • Proper identification based on discovery

Results:

  • Reduce the time required to maintain an accurate inventory
  • Base IT decisions on accurate information about the environment
  • Reduce staff time by 41% with overall systems management
 

Inventory

 
 

Challenges:

  • Comprehensive inventory allows for better business decisions
  • Want to upgrade and need to know what I can migrate
  • Reduce support and maintenance costs

LANDesk Solution:

  • Comprehensive inventory of software, hardware and attached devices
  • Powerful query builder lets you extract specific asset data without writing complex code
  • Target machines or users based on inventory data
  • Reporting Tools
  • Data Export allows you to analyze information using your own data analysis and reporting tools

Results:

  • Reduced support costs due to compatibility issues
  • Reduced costs associated with maintaining inventory
  • Savings of $8,576 per 100 users with overall systems management
 

Software Distribution

 
 

Challenges:

  • Deliver software consistently to end user devices
  • Roll out software and updates to multiple users

LANDesk Solution:

  • Roll out applications based on policies
  • Manage ongoing application updates
  • Use a modular, task-based model to improve planning, scheduling and managing software distributions
  • Manage packages, distribution methods, deployment scripts and target selections separately for increased flexibility

Results:

  • Software distribution is reduced by 39%
 

Reporting & Dashboard

 
 

Challenges:

  • See my priorities at a glance
  • Visibility into security risks and compliance
  • Need multiple levels of analysis to improve my systems management

LANDesk Solution:

  • Build more intelligence into your decision making
  • See trends as they happen to take immediate action
  • View vulnerabilities and drill down to remediate issues
  • Provide in-context, drillable dashboards and reports based on user's role within IT
  • Reporting that gives you the data to demonstrate compliance with:
    • Software license agreements
    • Best-practice standards such as ITIL
    • Regulations such as PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley
     

Results:

  • Compliance and audit time is reduced by 42% with integrated systems and security management
 

Software License Monitoring

 
 

Challenges:

  • Keeping software licensing information up-to-date and verifiable
  • Too much "shelfware" and spending more than needed to avoid a costly audit

LANDesk Solution:

  • Capture use conditions for each license agreement
  • Understand how entitlements are measured for each license
  • Establish clear definitions of compliance
  • Use validated usage data to push for better pricing
  • Reconcile installs with entitlements; handle the exceptions (especially installed, but not entitled)
  • Be prepared for an audit
    • Move from defense (you prove compliance) to offense (they prove violation)
    • Demonstrate control of both facts and processes
     

Results:

  • Time to deploy software and upgrades is reduced by 46%
 

Cloud Service Appliance

 
 

Challenges:

  • How can we manage remote locations without a dedicated link?
  • How do we support remote or mobile users?

LANDesk Solution:

  • Cloud Services Appliance
  • Full management and security capabilities without requiring VPN
  • Automatic updates for easy maintenance without the need for additional server licenses

Results:

  • Saves $1,000+ for every location where you would otherwise place a server for management
  • Saves $6,907 per 100 users
 

Mobility Management

 
 

Challenges:

  • Users are bringing mobile devices to work
  • Configuring mobile devices for management
  • Securing information on the devices
  • Delivering recommended or corporate applications to mobile devices

LANDesk Solution:

  • Set policies to control access to exchange
  • Simple enrollment
  • Device configuration/security policy
  • Remote management
  • User application portal

Results:

  • Saves $230 per device per user per year for managed mobile devices – VDC Research
  • Organizations with 1,000 devices will save $1.1+ Million over five years with Mobile Device Management solution – VDC Research
 

OS Provisioning & Migration

 
 

Challenges:

  • How can we provision new machines?
  • How do we migrate to a new OS?
  • How do we implement this without disrupting business?

LANDesk Solution:

  • Create template-based deployment
  • Migrate everything, including applications and the user profile
  • Automated process with approvals

Results:

  • Deploy Windows 7 in 20 minutes or less per machine with the user data and settings intact
  • Automate migration for 80% of PCs, so your resources can focus on the other 20%
 

Remote Control / Problem Resolution

 
 

Challenges:

  • How can we reduce incident resolution time?
  • I need the tools to resolve any incident remotely as well as if it is local

LANDesk Solution:

  • Robust remote control
  • Centrally managed
  • Scoped, time controls, simple to manage
  • Integrated remote control, inventory, and monitoring
  • Remote control out-of-network devices
  • Remote control unmanaged nodes
  • Wake up and reboot remote machines and launch applications

Results:

  • Problem resolution savings of 24% with reduction in help desk calls by 20% for overall systems management
 

Power Management

 
 

Challenges:

  • How to do our part in being more "Green" and save the company money

LANDesk Solution:

  • Eco-friendly – to more easily achieve "Green IT"
  • CFO-friendly – Save up to $10 - $20 per machine per year
  • Comprehensive reporting for management
  • Balances the needs of system availability with power savings
  • Custom settings
    • Hour of day and day of week
    • Wattage usage
    • Power modes
    • Configurations for specific systems
     

Results:

  • Estimated savings of 46% in wattage consumed over one year (158 kilowatts or $15.80 per machine). Save $1,000 - $2,000 per hundred machines in use
 
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