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Comprehensive IT Management Solution for Education

Education is faced with many opportunities and challenges when it comes to managing and supporting your IT infrastructure. You are responsible for tracking, maintaining, and supporting your computer assets. While that’s a difficult job by itself, add the mounting pressure of securing your network from the ongoing barrage of worms and viruses.

Altiris understands your challenges and offers a wide range of IT management solutions to keep your systems secure and running. Altiris provides comprehensive solutions to all levels of institutions.

Prices in NZ dollars. Excludes GST (NZ only) and freight
Altiris Media Kit	109889	139.00
Altiris Education Package 1 (Licence, each). Includes Deployment Solution and Inventory Solution. Includes one year of free product upgrades.	131529	11.00
Altiris Education Package 2 (Licence, each). Includes Deployment, Inventory, Application Metering, Carbon Copy and Software Delivery Solutions. Includes one year of free product upgrades.	131527	20.00
Altiris Education Package 3 (Licence, each). Includes Deployment, Inventory, Application Metering, Carbon Copy, Patch Management and Software Delivery Solutions. Includes one year of free product upgrades.	131521	25.50
Altiris Education Package 4 (Licence, each). Includes Deployment, Inventory, Application Metering, Carbon Copy, Patch Management, Software Delivery and Software Virtualization Solutions. Includes one year of free product upgrades.	146306	28.00

Altiris Education Management Solution contains the following elements:

1. Deployment Solution

Altiris® Deployment Solution™ helps reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, notebooks, thin clients, and handheld devices from a centralized location in your environment with an easy-to-use, automated deployment solution that offers OS deployment, configuration, PC “personality” migration, and software deployment across hardware platforms and OS types.

Easy to Install, Learn, and Use

Whether you’re planning for an upcoming project, such as a mass deployment of new computers or a new technology transition to a new OS, or want to lower costs associated with support, software delivery, and disaster recovery, Deployment Solution can make your job easier.

Deployment Solution helps cut the costs involved in the deployment and management of your new and older IT devices through all phases of their lifecycle. Product reviewers and end users have consistently acknowledged it as being the easiest desktop and server management tool to install, learn, and use.

Key Features & Benefits

• Single deployment solution for desktops, servers, notebooks, and handhelds
• Support for Intel’s Wired for Management specifications for PXE, Wake on LAN, and BIS makes hands-off management with Deployment Solution easy
• Secures management features from unauthorized personnel
• Supports Windows PE and Linux pre-boot environments
• Provides tools for hands-free migration, which increases return on investment
• Supports heterogeneous operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Pocket PC

2. Inventory Solution

Altiris® Inventory Solution® reduces the cost of identifying and managing heterogeneous devices throughout your enterprise. Easily track comprehensive hardware information, installed software packages, and operating system settings for all IT assets throughout their lifecycle. Data is normalized, consolidated, and secured in a central repository, enabling detailed reporting of asset information from the convenience of a Web console.

Know What You Have: It's Where IT Begins

To effectively manage your enterprise, you need an accurate and thorough inventory of your desktops, servers, notebooks, handhelds, and network devices. Knowing what you have and where it’s located empowers you to reduce IT support costs, protect your network, improve success of software deployments, and focus on higher-level objectives.

Inventory Solution is a powerful and flexible inventory tool that provides you with the comprehensive and accurate information you need to meet the demands of your multi-platform environment.

Key Features & Benefits

• Inventory virtually any system, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, Macintosh systems, and handheld and network devices
• Improve application supportability and reduce support costs
• Reduce the cost and complexity associated with application and OS rollouts and updates
• Mobile-friendly features include reporting of delta changes, a cache and forward design, and over-the-wire data compression
• Extend management capabilities as business grows, matures, and business needs change

3. Application Metering

Application Metering Solution™ allows you to gain control of your software licensing.

4. Carbon Copy

Altiris Carbon Copy® Solution isn’t your average remote control application—it provides access from a Web browser. Plus, its powerful management features give you the tools you need to remotely administer your corporate environment. Integrated agent deployment and configuration simplifies distribution, while reports and notification policies track agent installations and remote sessions.  

A Solution that’s Cost-effective and Easy to Use

With Carbon Copy Solution, you can increase your organization’s effectiveness in supporting both your network and mobile-based users, help desks can serve a large number of support calls without increasing support staff, and your IT department can reduce downtime and respond to network issues instantaneously.

Carbon Copy Solution provides organizations with an integrated remote control solution that delivers powerful Web-based management features—at the same cost as traditional remote control utilities.

Key Features & Benefits

• Integration with Notification Server™—Altiris’ Web-based infrastructure—to create a unified management environment
• Web-hosted consoles let you download utilities on demand without requiring physical installation
• Client access over LAN, WAN, and Internet or mobile connections
• Centralized client management so that clients can be automatically deployed and customized through pre-defined policies
• Comprehensive, multi-level security
• Pre-defined reports and policies to track and manage client usage

5. Patch Management

Altiris® Patch Management Solution™ allows you to proactively manage patches and software updates by automating the collection, analysis, and delivery of patches across your enterprise. The patch management tool can significantly help you decrease the costs involved in delivering patches throughout your enterprise and integrates with Altiris® Recovery Solution™ for stable-state rollback.

Automated Processes for Distribution of Patches

Patch Management Solution provides improved functionality in the analysis, collection, and distribution of OS and application updates. The solution consists of a central, extensible repository to house various operating systems, hardware and software vendors’ patches, as well as improved installation inventory and specific software update distribution options.

The patch management solution is integrated with Recovery Solution for stable-state roll back in the event an applied patch causes system instabilities. By integrating automated patch management with recovery capabilities, Patch Management Solution improves business continuity and accelerates IT systems security by reducing the need for extended patch test cycles.

Key Features & Benefits

• Expanded OS and application support
• Information repository that provides detailed information about each software bulletin, such as technical details, severity ratings, and number of executables
• Software repository that automates the downloads from the vendor site prior to distribution without administrator intervention
• Patch-specific inventory for determining supported operating systems, applications and the associated service pack level, and whether a patch is installed
• Improved distribution wizard and targeting that automatically determines the patch installation requirements and assigns collections based on the requirements
• Extensive control over installations, such as integration with QChain, reboot control, and easy selection of command-line options

6. Software Delivery

Altiris® Software Delivery Solution™ provides secure, bandwidth-sensitive distribution of applications and updates throughout your organization. Software Delivery Solution supports LAN, WAN, and remote and mobile clients from a single infrastructure, and offers advanced application management features such as application self-healing, conflict analysis, and other ongoing software management capabilities.

Optimize Your Client Communications

Software Delivery Solution was developed for IT professionals who need to deliver standardized software throughout their organization on an ongoing basis. The solution’s easy-to-deploy design appeals to small, medium, and large businesses alike because you can remotely distribute applications and updates from a Web console, significantly reducing desktop visits while supporting your mobile workforce.

Use Software Delivery Solution to make the most of Web-based communication protocols and to distribute software packages over a variety of connections and speeds, including slow dial-up connections. Software Delivery Solution—it's the right choice for software distribution throughout your organization.

Key Features & Benefits

• Increased security with role-and-scope-based security model
• Mobile-friendly features such as checkpoint restart and dynamic bandwidth throttling
• Minimized impact to users through scheduled off-hour deliveries
• Faster support resolution with baseline scans, Web reports, and self-help "one offs" software needs
• Simplified management tasks through wizards, a dashboard view, and so on
• Extended management capabilities as business grows, matures, and business needs change