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?
What's Included
BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management streamlines IT operational tasks with a lightweight, single-agent, single-console framework. The suite includes the following product components:
- BigFix Asset Discovery provides visibility into all IP-enabled devices on your network.
- BigFix 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.
- BigFix Patch Management collapses patch and update time scales, reduces staff workloads, cuts cost, and increases the effectiveness of patch processes.
- BigFix Power Management delivers significant energy cost savings and reduces carbon emissions through enterprise-wide desktop system power conservation.
- BigFix Remote Control configures and manages Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance functionality.
- BigFix Software Distribution automates and adds new levels of assurance to the software deployment process.
- BigFix 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.
- BigFix OS Deployment, an optional component, provides bare-metal imaging and provisioning for operating systems.
- BigFix 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.