Systems Management

Your strategic IT project won't be approved if it doesn't support a business goal. Aligning IT to your business goals is more important than ever. Without that alignment it's difficult to get the attention your project deserves. So how do you turn IT into a productivity center rather than a cost center? The answer's simple: Systems Management Solutions from Novell.

Yes, it’s true and you know it: IT can support business goals rather than just keeping your organization running. How? By automating tasks that keep your IT staff busy, but not productive.

Machines are Busy, People are Productive

With our Systems Management solutions, you can automate the repetitive manual tasks your IT staff performs every day. Automation improves IT productivity, increases end user satisfaction and improves your return on IT investments. Freed from manual processes, IT staff can help drive business growth with innovative approaches to your business problems.

Meeting Standards the Easy Way

Your Systems Management solutions make it easy to adopt best practices, such as those recommended by ITIL and COBIT, so your processes are always repeatable, efficient and standards-based. What does that mean to you? It means your data center can respond to high demand on the fly and automatically. It means policies are consistently enforced on endpoints without user intervention. It means the right people get the right resources at the right time, every time, without IT staff involvement.

From regulatory compliance to line-of-business performance to systems and information security, the IT initiatives are in your court. Your organization is facing more technology choices than ever. And with more choices come more applications, more maintenance, and ultimately more risk. Controlling risk and boosting efficiency is easy with Systems Management solutions from Novell.

It's time to face the truth: IT risk and regulations are here to stay. But you can manage both; and reap the rewards of lower costs, maximized assets and an IT department that protects your organization from unnecessary risk.

Simple Solutions for Complex Problems

To keep your systems ready to roll with whatever projects come your way, you need a complete IT governance program. Our Systems Management solutions provide just that. They give you server consolidation, IT automation, data center virtualization, security and vulnerability management and much more to help you get IT under control. Find simple solutions to complex problems so you can minimize risk and improve the delivery of your IT services.

Risk: A Fact of Life, but No Longer a Burden

Are you trying to minimize risk? If so, our Systems Management solutions can lift the burden of managing IT risk and complexity. With a combination of open source software, virtualization and automation, your IT staff and your end users will have what they need to be productive. They’ll have what they need to spend less time on redundant tasks, to spend less time on helpdesk calls and to spend less time sitting idle. They’ll spend less time on all of these so they can spend more time working on projects that drive your business and generate revenue.

You're an IT professional, but it would take a magician to keep your complex system on track and within budget all the time. IT costs are on the rise and you're on a tight budget. Novell can help on both scores. Innovative Systems Management solutions from Novell can free you to choose the perfect solutions for your organization while keeping IT costs under control.

Getting exactly what you need doesn't mean you have to splurge. Now you can implement the best solutions and not just the best solutions you can afford.

Control IT Costs

As an IT professional, you naturally want your organization to enjoy technology solutions that meet its unique needs—but that doesn’t mean you have an unlimited budget. In addition, each department you support has different requirements and they all cost money. Your users want support for an array of mobile devices. Your staff is pushing for the latest software. And your supervisors want functionality at a low cost. Our Systems Management solutions deliver everything you need, without breaking your budget, giving you the confidence to choose whatever is right for your organization.

Adopt Best Practices

You can’t keep costs down unless you know where your money is going. Our Systems Management solutions are based on a best-practices approach to IT management: they offer standards-based methods for performing critical measurements such as network and data security. They can also help you measure your organization’s return on its technology investments and the degree to which it complies with government and industry regulations. With our effective IT governance and measurement tools, cost control is a reachable goal.