Desktop Management

Desktop Management applications are critical to helping an organization effectively and securely manage PCs through their lifecycle. Desktop management begins with a complete inventory of PCs, their configurations and what software is installed and used to effectively plan for future upgrades.

Centennial Discovery offers Desktop Management ISVs the most powerful and comprehensive software tool for dynamically finding, identifying and auditing all corporate hardware and software on a network in near real-time. Discovery provides critical information to establish configuration baselines and enable update planning.

Centennial DeviceWall offers Desktop Management ISVs a powerful solution for protecting the corporate network from threats associated with portable storage devices. DeviceWall enables the securing of organizational desktops by controlling access through all exit points. DeviceWall and Discovery offer:

  • Software license management
  • Patch management through device recognition and non-compliance reports
  • Desktop vulnerability management through end point security
  • Real-time location tracking
  • Automated asset discovery, accuracy of data discovered and automatic population of a CMDB
  • Scalability over heterogeneous and widely distributed environments – to 150,000 assets and beyond
  • Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Netware, Unix, Linux, etc.)
  • Dynamic updates – no need to wait for heavy-overhead batch processing
  • Small client footprint – creates minimal impact on client machine
  • Low bandwidth requirements – delta reporting limits message traffic
  • Passive inventory – minimizes network overhead

Integrating Discovery Makes Good Business Sense

  • Improve competitive positioning by broadening and enhancing product capabilities
  • Focus on core competency of developing world class IT lifecycle management solutions
  • Bring a more powerful solution to market sooner
  • Leap-frog competition with a more powerful, integrated
  • Leverage the leading discovery tool already in use by more than 5000 customers with more than 4 million licenses deployed
  • Up-sell the new solution to existing customers
  • Effectively compete in situations where asset discovery is a requirement
  • Retain customers looking for a more powerful discovery solution

Your Customer Benefits from Using Discovery

  • Achieve quicker ROI from their IT investment
  • Reduce average help desk call time through instant visibility to hardware and software profiles including recent changes
  • Handle more calls with same number of agent s by significantly reducing walk-around time
  • Meet HIPAA, SOX and other regulatory requirements
  • Make decisions based on an accurate and up to date picture of your environment
  • Reduce IT spend through standardization and strategic purchasing
  • More easily troubleshoot network problems through greater accuracy of network assets
  • Increase employee productivity through faster incident resolution
  • Reduce training time by using a single, integrated solution instead of a multi-vendor solution

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