LANDesk Software Announces Management Automation Platform
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LANDesk's Industry Open Platform Features Connectors, Software Development Kit and a Resource Center with Industry Best Practices
LAS VEGAS and Interchange - LANDesk Software, a global leader in systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management, today introduced the LANDesk® Management Automation Platform, an IT process management solution, designed to enable organisations to easily define, design, implement and execute cross platform IT automation initiatives. The new platform will allow IT to bring together process and automation disciplines to facilitate efficient task design, repeatability and auditability - assisting IT organisations in reducing costs, eliminating process variability and achieving compliance with regulatory requirements across industry solutions.
LANDesk estimates that as much as 30 percent of IT operational costs can be attributed to redundant and repetitive tasks and the failure to document and adhere to IT best practices. Through an open architecture approach, LANDesk's Management Automation Platform enables process automation initiatives to be implemented across various IT functions and solutions including LANDesk® Management Suite, LANDesk® Security Suite, LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager and LANDesk® Service Desk. LANDesk's Management Automation Platform is an industry open platform and available to all LANDesk customers at no charge. At Interchange, LANDesk's annual user conference, the company highlighted approximately 165 best practices.
"The need for process automation in IT is obvious, yet it has been an area that has been underserved," said Steve Daly, President and CEO, LANDesk Software. "Mobility is exploding - the number of devices, software implementations and security vulnerabilities - and regulatory IT compliance and management requirements are going to increase exponentially. IT departments will be hard pressed to manage their environment without some form of process automation. Our goal in introducing this platform is to provide a complete, open solution for automating operational tasks across a spectrum of IT disciplines."
LANDesk's New Management Automation Platform Provides Complete Cross Platform Automation
LANDesk Management Automation Platform provides cross product and 3rd party application support exposing job, task, event and action automation integration and a robust resource center containing best practices and standard setting content. Comprised of four tool areas - Content and Resource, Best Practice Processes, Software Development Kit (SDK) and Connections - LANDesk Management Automation Platform provides a roadmap where organizations can automate repetitive or manual processes and better manage changes and make improvements to existing processes as well as achieve compliance with regulatory requirements such as CoBIT, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA and more.
"This platform spans business and operational processes across multiple data, department and application silos - capabilities not found in traditional IT management approaches," said Steve Workman, vice president of product management, LANDesk Software. "By applying LANDesk Management Automation Platform to the specific, routine tasks inherent in patch management, OS migration, software license monitoring and so on, it brings the benefits of repeatability while reducing human error and risk, and enables significant cost reductions."
With the initial release of LANDesk Management Automation Platform users and developers will have access to the following tools:
About LANDesk Software
LANDesk Software is a leading provider of systems lifecycle management, endpoint security, and IT service management solutions for desktops, servers and mobile devices across the enterprise. LANDesk enables IT to deliver business value by gaining control of end-user computing with a single console, light infrastructure, and ITIL solutions that deliver significant ROI for thousands of customers worldwide. LANDesk is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, and can be found at www.landesk.com.
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