LANDesk Software, a provider of systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management solutions, announced it has introduced the LANDesk Management Automation Platform, an IT process management solution, designed to enable organizations to define, design, implement and execute cross platform IT automation initiatives.
The new platform will allow IT to bring together process and automation disciplines to facilitate efficient task design, repeatability and auditability, assisting IT organizations in reducing costs, eliminating process variability and achieving compliance with regulatory requirements across industry solutions.
LANDesk estimates that as much as 30 percent of IT operational costs can be attributed to redundant and repetitive tasks and the failure to document and adhere to IT best practices. Through an open architecture approach, LANDesk’s Management Automation Platform enables process automation initiatives to be implemented across various IT functions and solutions including LANDesk Management Suite, LANDesk Security Suite, LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager and LANDesk Service Desk. LANDesk’s Management Automation Platform is an industry open platform and available to all LANDesk customers at no charge. At Interchange, LANDesk’s annual user conference, the company highlighted approximately 165 best practices.
“The need for process automation in IT is obvious, yet it has been an area that has been underserved,” said Steve Daly, President and CEO, LANDesk Software. “Mobility is exploding – the number of devices, software implementations and security vulnerabilities – and regulatory IT compliance and management requirements are going to increase exponentially. IT departments will be hard pressed to manage their environment without some form of process automation.” LANDesk Management Automation Platform provides cross product and 3rd party application support exposing job, task, event and action automation integration and a robust resource center containing best practices and standard setting content. Comprised of four tool areas – Content and Resource, Best Practice Processes, Software Development Kit (SDK) and Connections – LANDesk Management Automation Platform provides a roadmap where organizations can automate repetitive or manual processes and better manage changes and make improvements to existing processes as well as achieve compliance with regulatory requirements such as CoBIT, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA and more.
“This platform spans business and operational processes across multiple data, department and application silos, capabilities not found in traditional IT management approaches,” said Steve Workman, VP of product management, LANDesk Software. “By applying LANDesk Management Automation Platform to the specific, routine tasks inherent in patch management, OS migration, software license monitoring and so on, it brings the benefits of repeatability while reducing human error and risk, and enables significant cost reductions.” With the initial release of LANDesk Management Automation Platform users and developers will have access to the following tools: -Content and Resource Center: A single repository designed to facilitate the identification, definition, design and refinement of customer built processes. The Resource Center will contain all the content libraries to enable users to download and upload capabilities.
Best Practice Processes: With this release of the Management Automation Platform, LANDesk is offering users approximately 165 best practice process automation templates based on industry standard and current users’ management best practices -Software Development Kit: An open platform SDK that enable cross product utilization of functional objects registered with the service layer. Code is comprised of application program interfaces (APIs) encapsulating the functional elements and components of the Management Automation Platform and an SDK for wrapping the APIs into a consumable package for use during development. The SDK allows for internal and native product integration as well as integration with third party applications.
Connectors: Workflow connectors that enable process to be constructed between any of the industry’s top ERP, CRM, Service Management and other applications. The connectors act as third party application data listeners, data integration points and functional instrumentation for cross product process and automated workflow definition, design, implementation and execution.
Source:http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/10/15/5069450.htm
