Endpoint Management

These and other factors stand between you and optimized endpoint management. Fortunately, you can reduce the day-to-day cost and complexity of managing mixed desktop environments. Let Novell endpoint management solutions show you the way.

Powerful endpoint management solutions from Novell help you:

• Automate each step of the endpoint management cycle
• Implement ITIL and other best practices
• Build tacit knowledge into a centralized management system

With our endpoint management solutions, you can automate a device's lifecycle from the time it enters the network until it's retired. Smart, efficient, policy-based automation of IT processes reduces IT efforts, relaxes skill requirements and optimizes the value of your current assets. The result? Lower costs for better endpoint management.

Along with efficiency, automating endpoint management also provides additional security assurance. With our solutions, you can ensure security policies are always followed, even off-site. And you can automate compliance and reporting procedures. Finally, we make it possible to tighten up USB security by defining how removable media and thumb drives are used and when data should be encrypted.

Today's savvy IT organizations depend on established best practices to minimize wasted time and budget. ITIL and other practices lay a strong foundation for formalizing decision-making, coordination and workflow.

However, getting management processes from the operations manual to the IT environment can be tough. Plus, some of your current management practices may be based on the knowledge or skill set of a single person. This scenario can put your entire management system at risk from attrition or restructuring.

Novell endpoint management solutions enable simplified automation throughout the lifecycle of your endpoints. This means you can easily turn best practices and tacit knowledge into standardized, centralized, repeatable processes.

With Novell, you can deliver customized desktops and easily:

• Reduce management complexity
• Virtualize your applications
• Keep users productive and networks secure

Simplify management with a standardized environment that's deployed across your network. With Novell technologies, you can discover and audit what hardware, software and operating system combinations are present on the network and report any out-of-specification devices. Once in the management system, you can make changes and then enforce them on all necessary devices. A standardized environment is easier, faster and cheaper for IT to manage.

Prevent conflicts by virtualizing your applications. Virtualized applications run in an isolated environment that cannot be influenced, attacked or modified by other systems or information on your network. Applications are packaged with all the application files, settings, runtimes and components necessary to run immediately. It's an easy way to create and apply a standard, bullet-proof deployment.

Our security, configuration, asset and patch management technologies work together to create a stable and secure environment. Wherever users connect to the network, you'll be able to distribute applications, update patches and monitor their systems. In the event of a disaster, users can enter their user name and password on any PC and get the same desktop experience. This feature makes replacing lost, stolen or broken PCs much easier.

When you choose Novell solutions, you receive the most accurate asset management inventory available. Unlike other vendors, we provide an integrated inventory with software usage and license reconciliation. Our solution uses intelligent asset recognition rather than relying on file header data. As a result, our reports never contain duplicate entries or information that software is installed on devices when it's really not. The integrated inventory also includes automatic filtering for purchased-versus-discovered products as well as different versions, editions, suites and models.

With over 14 years of experience tracking more than 10 million desktops, Novell helps you:

• Avoid software over- and under-licensing
• Eliminate the inaccuracy and cost of manual reporting
• Dramatically reduce costly penalties for licensing noncompliance

Stop overspending on software licenses. With our asset tracking and usage capabilities, you'll always know exactly how many software licenses your company owns. Walk away from contract negotiations with better deals by knowing your needs and buying only what your users require. Plus, you can maximize the value of current software investments by tracking usage at the device level, and reclaiming and redeploying underutilized licenses within your organization.

Our automated asset management solution eliminates the cost and human error of manual tracking. We enable you to confidently offer auditors rock-solid proof of usage at a moment's notice and avoid the expensive penalties for software noncompliance that can unexpectedly eat into your IT budget. We can also help you put an end to the financial burden and unnecessary stress of software audits.

With Novell Endpoint Security solutions, you can centralize management of your endpoint devices. This makes it easy to:

• Secure data
• Provide continuous patch compliance
• Adapt to changes in your network

Centralized management simplifies data security on all your endpoint devices. Just define your security standards once, and Novell solutions guarantee they are always enforced. Ensure that both company-owned and guest devices meet security requirements. Lock down USB security by determining enterprise-wide usage parameters for removable media. And no matter where your users are working, our centrally managed firewall keeps their laptops and desktops safe.

In addition, continuous, centralized monitoring maintains patch compliance throughout the entire enterprise. Our intelligent patch management software understands your network and continually supplies you with patches and updates for operating systems and applications.

Concerned about the inherent risk of unavoidable changes in your network? We help you prevent IT from inadvertently hampering end-user productivity through human error by standardizing and centralizing the environment. You'll be automatically alerted when new devices are introduced into the network, desktop configurations change or unauthorized software is being used. As a result, you can forestall security breaches and expensive licensing violations.

With centralized, policy-driven automation, Novell solutions offer solid endpoint protection. And it's all accomplished with a few keystrokes and without compromising your end users' experience. They work better. You rest easier.