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Managing IT Assets : Managing IT Assets Greg Giles,
Product Marketing Manager, Service and Asset Management
CIO Priorities: Aligning Business and IT : CIO Priorities: Aligning Business and IT Enabled Business Growth through IT
Link IT and Business Strategies and Plans
Governance and Compliance
Reduce Cost and Complexity of IT Resources
Source: Gartner Growing IT Contribution: 2006 CIO Agenda January 2006
Opportunity : Opportunity Aligning IT with the business means:
Changing rapidly to support new business opportunities
Driving out wasted time and inefficiency
Driving out hidden costs
Avoiding unnecessary complexity
Altiris solutions save time, cut costs and eliminate waste
Applying These Concepts to IT : Applying These Concepts to IT Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
IT Service Management
IT Asset Management
Service-Oriented Management Solutions : Service-Oriented Management Solutions Business and IT Alignment Modular, open and future-proof approach
For diverse and widely distributed IT infrastructure
Reduce total cost of management by up to 60%* Extensible Management Architecture
based on SOA principles
Automation Leads to Supporting Business Needs : Automation Leads to Supporting Business Needs Extensible Management Architecture
based on SOA Principles
Typical IT Groups : Typical IT Groups
Active Asset Management : Active Asset Management
Altiris Architecture: Extend & Enhance : Altiris Architecture: Extend & Enhance
Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Management : Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Management Source: August 2006, Tech Choices “The Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Management”
Forrester Wave™: Service Desk Management : Forrester Wave™: Service Desk Management
Slide12 : Altiris is a midsized player in the NGAM (New Generation Asset Management) market, but you’d never know it from its product – a full-featured CMDB that will run rings around some of its larger, well-funded competitors.
Source: “Asset Management: From Niche to Keystone in Enterprise Management,” EMA, Dennis Drogseth 8/31/06
Altiris Market Share – US : Altiris Market Share – US Source: Gartner Market Share: Enterprise Management, Worldwide, 2004: Laurie Wurster – June 2005
Service & Asset Management Suite : Service & Asset Management Suite Service Management Asset Repository Contract Management Barcode Connector Hardware & Software Inventory Application Usage 1 2 3 CMDB
Altiris Advantages : Altiris Advantages Unified asset repository & CMDB
Integrated inventory tools
Visibility & accountability
Dynamic reporting
Contract management
Integrated with Service Management
Enhances current Altiris investment
Extensible data model
Slide16 : Product Demonstration
Thank You : Questions and Answers Thank You
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