BMC Client Management - Deploy

Constantly evolving technology introduces multiple updates for multiple applications deployed to any given number of machines in your IT environment. Keeping systems configured with the latest upgrades becomes a time-consuming and often expensive process. Most IT organizations are constantly searching for the most effective way to automate this task across their Windows, Mac, and Linux® environments.

BMC Client Management - Deploy gives you the reliable and comprehensive control you need to ensure successful software deployments in heterogeneous environments, as well as OS deployments for Windows environments, from a single, centralized console - without disruption to your end users.

The main features of BMC Client Management - Deploy are:

• Multi-casting and bandwidth management - Conserve network bandwidth by simultaneously sending data to multiple clients while minimizing interference
• CM agent deployment and updates - Auto-deploy and update the CM agent to newly discovered machines
• MyApps - Deploy pre-approved software directly from the desktop without submitting a request or waiting for a technician to install the software - self-service for the end-user and reduced impact to IT resources
• Checkpoint restart - Ensure that portable devices, such as laptops, receive a complete installation regardless of the size of deployment or number of network disconnections
• Wake-on-LAN - Successfully update workstations regardless of power state
• Easy packaging - Deploy software and configuration changes for Microsoft, MacOS, UNIX®, and Linux systems, as well as custom applications
• Remote install - Remotely install Windows OS, including formatting/partitioning hard drives
• Customized planning - Streamline software distribution planning efforts by grouping software with similar characteristics
• Hardware compatibility - Maintain a comprehensive list of hardware assets to ensure that the software being rolled out is supported
• Application kiosk - Access a web-based catalog of approved software for self-service installs following migration
• Report now - Provide reports on application update details
• Service anywhere - Access a machine without the use of a VPN to perform desktop management tasks, such as inventory, patch management, and software deployment