Symantec IT Asset Management

Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance.

In April, 2007, Symantec acquired Altiris combining its endpoint management capabilities with the security and back-up expertise of Symantec to deliver a unique set of solutions to the market.

Altiris software has received numerous awards and industry recognition as a proven solution that solves even the most demanding systems management challenges.

Altiris Total Management Suite software is a comprehensive suite of IT lifecycle automation solutions designed to help IT organizations manage, secure and support all IT assets, promoting effective service delivery. With Total Management Suite you can reduce operational costs, increase operational efficiencies, set the foundation for future growth, and align IT with business priorities.

More than 70 percent of the cost of IT is consumed in the management of technology after it is purchased. Total Management Suite dramatically reduces the costs of owning, operating, securing and supporting desktops, notebooks, servers and handheld devices by automating management tasks throughout their lifecycles. The suite is a heterogeneous, integrated management solution designed to help your organization address business issues such as security, compliance, unnecessary costs, and IT change management.

Symantec IT Asset Management Key Features

• Reduce service delivery costs and increase quality of service.
• Gain visibility into and control over IT resources.
• Automate manual processes.
• Increase system security posture.
• Standardize and consolidate.
• Reduce imaging, deployment, and migration time.
• Lower total cost of owning corporate IT assets.

The Altiris Total Management Suite helps you reduce the cost and complexity of IT asset management and ownership. The suite combines the best solutions Altiris has to offer into a single suite with a great price to match, helping you to automate your IT lifecycle management processes, including client and mobile, server and infrastructure, service and asset, and security and compliance management. The Altiris Total Management Suite includes:

Altiris® Service & Asset Management Suite™ software combines enterprise service and IT asset management disciplines into a single, unified CMDB and asset repository, helping you determine asset TCO and achieve the highest level of service.
Altiris® Client Management Suite™ software enables administrators to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot systems from virtually anywhere.
Altiris® Server Management Suite™ software provides a comprehensive solution for managing business-critical servers and operations in your environment.
The Total Management Suite also includes a number of stand-alone applications including: Barcode Solution, Connector Solution, Patch Management Solution, Carbon Copy Solution, and many others.

Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries.