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LANDesk Management Suite

When it comes to management and compliance, and lets be honest tends to be an area often overlooked but imperative to business there is no other company capable of achieving this with such simplicity as LANDesk. Dataplex have been a trusted partner of LANDesk for many years and have completed some challenging implementations which have driven cost out of businesses and ensured regulatory compliance.

Our technical consultants are versed across the infrastructure and security sphere and as such are uniquely placed to offer guidance and services through LANDesk product set.

From a management perspective Dataplex have worked with Microsoft System Center technologies for many years and are able to provide an agonistic approach to their advice.

LANDesk® solutions are designed to give you ultimate clarity of and control over your heterogeneous IT environment along with easy-to-use service management, process management and workflow automation solutions. Utilising the Management Suite will boost efficiency, save time, decrease costs and protect IT whilst improving user productivity. The features of LANDesk Management suite are:

Enterprise Scalability
Manage your enterprise efficiently from a single, central console. You can distribute tasks automatically to each system’s local core server and reduce repetition by replicating public queries, packages and delivery methods across your enterprise servers.

Secure Management Over the Internet
LANDesk® Management Gateway is exclusive to LANDesk solutions and enables you to securely manage systems over the Internet—even users outside your corporate firewall and at geographically distributed sites. Easily identify all the computer assets you have, how they’re configured and where they are on your network. All the gateway requires is an Internet connection—no dedicated leased line or VPN is required.

Software License Monitoring
Scan for known and unknown applications as well as define and track unknown applications. Stop users from launching software with expired licenses, even when they’re not connected to the network. Maintain a comprehensive look at software license use and easily respond to audits with extensive application usage, license compliance reporting, and license reporting features. In addition, powerful query tools let you quickly analyse and understand your IT environment.

Efficient Software Distribution Technologies
A variety of features available in LANDesk Management Suite make software distribution unbeatably efficient. LANDesk Dynamic Preferred Server provides functional load balancing and fault tolerance for enterprise package distribution that eases the burden of distributing packages to users that move from location to location. LANDesk Targeted Multicast™ technology minimises bandwidth when distributing large packages to multiple users and without dedicated hardware or router reconfigurations. LANDesk Peer Download™ technology uses local bandwidth to access packages previously delivered to a subnet. Plus task-based distribution capabilities and policy-based configuration management are also available.

OS Deployment and Profile Migration
Easily migrate users and their profiles to new operating systems. Automatically deploy applications and quickly provision “bare-metal” machines without dedicated servers on each subset, boot floppies or network reconfiguration. The included OS deployment tool lets you perform OS deployments and organise OS configurations.

Remote Control and Problem Resolution
Remote control and problem resolution capabilities in LANDesk Management Suite offer everything you need to reduce costs and the demands on your help desk resources, as well as to improve performance, security and efficiency. And only LANDesk solutions include LANDesk Management Gateway that lets you perform on-demand remote control securely over the Internet.

Inventory Management
LANDesk Management Suite includes all the inventory management capabilities of LANDesk Inventory Manager to let you discover networked computing devices, maintain detailed hardware and software inventories, gather and track custom data fields, monitor software usage to reduce licensing costs and maintain compliance, plan upgrades and maintenance and quickly respond to audits. And a unified asset repository brings it all together, letting you turn raw data into pure business intelligence.

Intel® vProTM Support
When managing Intel® vProTM-based hardware assets, support for Intel vPro technology extends your management abilities with out-of-band discovery and remote healing regardless of the OS or system state. Plus you have the ability to use redirect screen output and boot redirection to repair non-responsive systems.

Support for Desktops, Laptops, Mobile Devices and Multiple Platforms
Take active control of all your computing platforms and demonstrate compliance to security and configuration standards with extensive platform support for Windows, Mac OS, Unix, Linux and handheld and embedded device operating systems.


LANDesk Security Suite

LANDesk Security Suite lets you detect and deploy security patches automatically with active endpoint security management from a single console. Take proactive control with quarantine, antivirus enforcement, vulnerability detection, threat remediation, computer access restriction tools and more.

LANDesk security suite will minimise network downtime, reduce infrastructure and help desk costs and protect critical data, this is achieved through the following components:

Security Management Over the Internet
LANDesk® Management Gateway is exclusive to LANDesk® solutions and enables you to manage system security over the Internet—even users outside your corporate firewall and at geographically distributed sites. Easily perform patch, anti-spyware and security threat management, execute antivirus enforcement, and block applications.

Advanced Vulnerability Detection
Standard and high-frequency vulnerability scanning lets you detect antivirus, OS and application patch needs quickly, based on your own needs and your chosen level of detail. Custom scans let you define the specific conditions scanned for, while threat analyser enables you to identify configuration risks.

LANDesk® Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS)
LANDesk® Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) layers added security to thwart malicious attacks and rootkits using application control that prevents applications from executing in malicious ways right on your individual host systems. Use it to extend the power of LANDesk® Security Suite or LANDesk® Patch Manager and LANDesk® Antivirus, or use it with Symantec antivirus or McAfee Enterprise. Access everything you need for the most complete, layered LANDesk®security solution available.

Remediation Tools
With LANDesk® Security Suite’s anti-spyware capabilities, you can protect systems in real-time with access to the comprehensive LANDesk database of known spyware, adware, Trojans, key-loggers and other malware. And with Connection Control Manager, your powers of remediation start before a system even connects to your network. This feature lets you limit network access to authorised networks or IP addresses, block communication with specific networks and control access to disk drives, communications channels, ports and modems. Plus with application blocking, your security is solid.

Antivirus Enforcement and Firewall Capabilities
Built-in antivirus enforcement lets you manage your McAfee, Norton, Sophos, Symantec or Trend-Micro antivirus solution right from the LANDesk® Security Suite console. And you can enable and configure an XP SP 2 firewall directly from the same console.

Patch Management Tools
LANDesk® Security Suite’s extended patch management capabilities help you assess OS and application patch needs, quickly research and prioritise patches, and automate patch distribution and maintenance. LANDesk® Targeted Multicast™ technology lets you speed patch deployments to multiple targets while minimising the bandwidth used to reduce total network traffic without dedicated hardware or router reconfiguration. And LANDesk® Dynamic Preferred Server enables you to keep up with users no matter where they are or how often they change locations.

Assurance
Maintain secure configurations using LANDesk® Security Suite’s role-based administration and policy-based management tools. You control who can alter your corporate security policy with baseline configuration capabilities. And reporting capabilities include trend graphs and security policy, spyware reports, and the LANDesk® executive dashboard that gives IT and executives a single, graphical view of the critical things that concern your enterprise.

LANDesk Process Manager

LANDesk® Process Manager enables businesses to improve IT and business processes while aligning IT and business services. Process Manager is deployed to boost the productivity of users and IT staff, increase an organisation's ability to adapt to frequent changes and reduce IT and operating costs through the following unique elements:

Automated Processes with Full Control
Make your business and IT processes more consistent and predictable without relinquishing control over the steps taken or the outcome achieved. Add LANDesk® Process Manager to your existing LANDesk® systems and security management solutions and create consistent, predictable IT workflows that automate redundant maintenance tasks.

Ease-of-Use and Flexibility
Empower virtually anyone in your organisation to quickly create and deploy a business process that works the way your organisation works, without impacting IT staff. Create workflows or sections of workflows once and use them in any number of different processes for faster, easier process automation. And extend access to workers enterprise-wide with a Web interface that gives workers at multiple locations and on the road access with only an Internet connection.

Scalability and Cost-Efficiency
Easily implement LANDesk® Process Manager enterprise-wide or try it in a specific area or business unit and extend to more areas at your own pace. However you use it, save time with a combined process designer and run-time engine that lets you both design and deploy automated processes in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks. Further create efficiencies by electronically documenting what is communicated to reduce the time and expense of phone calls, paper-based systems and data entry.

Design and Management Capabilities Access an easy-to-use change management system with LANDesk® Process Manager’s scalable process management engine and the collaborative design environment it offers. Personnel gain increased visibility into IT and business processes to facilitate ongoing improvement and enhanced change management. And the database manager lets you convert business processes into deployable solutions that integrate with existing databases, electronic forms, business rules and other processes and systems. Auditing and Reporting Full-featured auditing and reporting capabilities in LANDesk® Process Manager let you integrate ongoing compliance measures with business processes. Customisable reports and support for third-party electronic forms, such as Microsoft InfoPath, let you manage your resources more effectively and optimise business processes. And the ability to share reports by the Web or email helps ensure clear, consistent communication across your enterprise.

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