increase security, reduce costs, and keep
users productive though management
With tightening budgets and an increasing more complex IT landscape, the ability to manage your IT assets is becoming a crucial element of your IT strategy for a number of reasons.
Consilium have partnered with two of the largest providers of Endpoint Management solutions: Symantec with their Altiris IT Management Suite which provides a comprehensive suite covering Windows, Mac OSX, various flavours of Unix and hardware devices; and Microsoft’s System Centre which covers the Microsoft product range.
why manage my clients
The initial cost of buying new hardware, such as a PC or laptop, is only 20% of the over cost of looking after that device over it’s lifetime. The majority of the cost in having a PC in your office are from the ongoing maintenance of that PC such as patching, updating applications, backing up data, resolving helpdesk issues. Every time your IT staff have to touch the PC it adds to the lifetime costs of that PC. By adding a level of management you can help to reduce those costs.
Another key reason to improve your management is that a well managed PC helps to reduce the security of your network. Management can help with the standardisation of PCs meaning that you can ensure that if you want security policies can be applied globally and you can report on compliance with those policies. It can help you to know that the patch you need to have installed to protect you from the latest virus outbreak is in place, and that your users will not be affected while your competitors could be.
how do other companies reduce costs
Some of the ways include keeping tighter control over software licensing. Endpoint management inventory will allow you to find the software that is installed in your environment and ensure that you are licensed to run it meaning you can stay legal. But more than that you can find spare licenses that you can reuse, or software that is installed but not used that you can recoup to save additional purchases.
Another growing area is in power control. With energy costs spiraling the ability to force power saving measures out to your PC’s to turn monitors off when they’re not being used, to power them down overnight or force a higher level of powersaving all without affecting your end users can add up to considerable cost savings over time.