Resource Management
Save time, cut costs, keep your IT staff and users happy.
With Novell resource management tools, schools and campuses around the world are finding new ways to keep projects on track and on budget, to avoid unnecessary expenses, and to achieve a fast, positive return on their investments. Novell resource management solutions were named the 2006 Readers' Choice by eSchool News.
Novell ZENworks® makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain IT resources in today's diverse IT environments. By providing an integrated set of cross-platform tools that automate management across the lifecycle of desktops, laptops, servers and handheld devices, ZENworks lets you eliminate administrator effort and reduce IT costs while delivering the IT resources that users need, when they need them—all based on identity. From re-imaging computers after every class automatically, to keeping all the computers securely patched, to preventing students from loading their own wallpaper on the computers, to locking stolen handheld devices before someone can find the contact information for the entire faculty, ZENworks can be your new best friend.
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ZENworks Suite
This value-priced bundle gives you one low price for ZENworks Desktop, Server, Handheld, and Linux Management products. More +
Asset Management
With ZENworks Asset Management, you gain a more complete and accurate view of all your IT assets. You can eliminate software overspending because you improve your ability to accurately track and monitor software licenses, installations and compliance.
Novell ZENworks Asset Management starts with advanced tools that automatically inventory your hardware and software and provide detailed information about all the desktops, servers and network assets across your campus. This inventory gives you instant access to the data you need to ensure license compliance, reduce IT spending and support costs and fuel other critical IT projects—including migrations, lease management, the service desk, planning and budgeting, and asset redeployment. More +
Patch Management
If Patch Tuesday strikes fear into your heart, you need to know about ZENworks Patch Management—a powerful, automated patch management solution that will help you manage the increasing numbers of patches, updates and fixes your academic environment requires.
Quickly determine what patches are right for you with detailed patch information and automatically apply them across your network. Applicable target selection and flexible scheduling options ensure that the right devices receive the right patches when they need them. More +
Desktop Management
Novell ZENworks Desktop Management reduces the total cost of ownership of Windows desktops and laptops, letting administrators automatically and transparently configure, update and troubleshoot workstations from wherever they are—inside or outside the firewall—without having to visit each device. Using policies, administrators can generate and maintain academic environments with content and applications tailored to the personal needs of each user or group of users. As a result, users access their work environments and applications in a simple, consistent way from any device, at any location. More +
Handheld Management
If your faculty and staff are using handheld devices that contain confidential information, you need a way to safeguard those devices. With ZENworks Handheld Management, you can reduce security risks by centrally administering and enforcing password policies and synchronizing the user's device password with their network password. Administrators can also provide self-destruct or lockout capabilities for lost or stolen devices. More +
Linux Management
ZENworks Linux Management is the only solution that uses Policy-Driven Automation to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources. These automated and intelligent policies allow ZENworks Linux Management to provide centralized control across the lifecycle of Linux systems with desktop lockdown, imaging, remote control, inventory and software management. More +
Server Management
Novell ZENworks Server Management reduces the costs associated with managing diverse servers by using Policy-Driven Automation to simplify routine server management processes. It eliminates redundant administration tasks, letting administrators manage and configure geographically disbursed servers or groups of servers across multiple server platforms—including Windows, Linux, NetWare and Novell Open Enterprise Server—inside or outside the corporate firewall. More +