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 Managing the “care and feeding” of hundreds of thousands of network devices presents a formidable task for IT organizations. Even a simple question such as, “How many computers do you have?” can generate a variety of responses. Most organizations struggle with these basic questions about their computing environment:

• How do you set up specific endpoints to meet a certain security configuration?
• How do you ensure that users within a certain role are running the correct version of an application?
• How do you deploy patches in a way that minimizes downtime?

The ideal solution provides centralized, automated—yet easily customizable—lifecycle management of all the assets on your network. BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management brings BigFix cost-savings and operational excellence to key IT operations management functions including asset discovery/inventory, patch management, power management, remote desktop, software distribution, software asset management, and OS deployment. Consolidating and streamlining the most common IT operational tasks, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy, enabling IT departments to maintain service levels, focus on critical issues, and ensure overall operating efficiency.

 Watch the Chalk Talk on Systems Lifecycle Management!

Listen to Jonathan Fan (Senior Director of Product Management at BigFix) explain how you can manage all your assets – fixed and mobile, across platforms – at every stage.

Product Benefits

• Consolidate and simplify key system management services enterprise-wide
• Gain real-time visibility into endpoint configurations across the enterprise
• Enjoy immediate ROROI through power management, software license true- ups, and asset discovery, in addition to longer-term ROROI through resource reduction (up to 80% for labor requirements), server consolidation (up to a 40:1 ratio), and proven operational efficiencies
• Enable autodiscovery of unmanaged assets
• Scale from 1,000 to up to 250,000 endpoints on a single server
• Collapse software update cycles from weeks and months to hours and days
• Transparently manage mobile computers whether connected to the network or not
• Obtain closed-loop confirmation not just that a change command was  acknowledged by an endpoint, but whether the change was/was not successfully implemented
• Manage heterogeneous platforms—Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux running on physical or virtual machines
• Take advantage of “instant on” functionality without additional software or hardware
• Reduce the clutter and expense of multi-vendor tool sets
• Lower staff learning curves, deepen expertise, improve operational effectiveness
• Reduce electric power costs while synchronizing energy conservation with maintenance processes

What’s Included

Systems Lifecycle Management streamlines IT operational tasks with a lightweight, single-agent, single-console framework. The suite includes the following product components:

• Asset Discovery provides visibility into all IP-enabled devices on your network.
• Asset Inventory offers deep inspection capabilities to report on hundreds of hardware and software attributes out of the box, across platforms, in real time, at massive scale.
• Patch Management collapses patch and update time scales, reduces staff workloads, cuts cost, and increases the effectiveness of patch processes.
• Power Management delivers significant energy cost savings and reduces carbon emissions through enterprise-wide desktop system power conservation. 
• Remote Control configures and manages Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance functionality.
• Software Distribution automates and adds new levels of assurance to the software deployment process. 
• Software Asset Management helps enterprises identify under-used software to manage costs, and over-used licenses to stay on the right side of software license agreements.
• OS Deployment, an optional component, provides bare-metal imaging and provisioning for operating systems.
• Device Management for Windows Mobile enables configuration, encryption, and software distribution management by optimizing the BigFix Windows Agent for the mobile platform

Why BigFix?

Powered by the real-time visibility and control of the BigFix unified management platform, BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management brings cost-savings to key IT functions critical at each stage of the systems lifecycle – for desktops, servers and roaming laptops. Consolidating and streamlining the most common IT operational tasks, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy, enabling IT departments to maintain service levels, focus on critical issues, and ensure overall operating efficiency.