About BMC Configuration Automation for Clients

BMC Configuration Automation for Clients reduces the complexity and costs of managing desktops, laptops, and handheld devices through policy-based automation of application management, inventory, and software usage tracking and software harvesting, as well as Advanced PC Power settings. By automating these processes, IT departments can proactively and continuously manage the client devices across their enterprise, regardless of their location and connectivity. This dramatically reduces costs, improves quality of service, and reduces the business risks associated with system vulnerabilities.

BMC Configuration Automation for Clients takes the complexity out of managing shrink-wrapped and custom applications in today's dynamic IT environments. By automating the delivery, installation, updating, repair, removal, and management of applications on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, the solution helps departments meet growing service level demands, and reduces business risk associated with application downtime and virus attacks.

By tracking software usage for both physical and virtual applications, BMC Configuration Automations for Clients provides IT departments with visibility into what applications are installed across the enterprise, as well as their usage frequency. This knowledge can help them to minimize potential violation issues, reduce software license purchase costs, and increase the use of existing licenses.

When BMC’s client management solution is deployed as part of a larger BMC Change and Configuration management solution, it provides vital usage statistics to Asset Management via the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database to match what is deployed and being used against support contracts stored in BMC Asset Management.

Key Features and Benefits

• Reduces administrative costs by defining and enforcing continual compliance with policies, allowing you to proactively manage exceptions

• Improves service levels through policy-based automation that allows systems to dynamically adjust and deliver services to match business requirements

• Reduces business risks through standardized operating environments and by continuously auditing and reporting on the state of application policy compliance

• Improves the reliability and availability of all applications, both MSI and non-MSI based applications, through automatic self-healing capabilities

• Securely and reliably distributes, updates, and repairs applications on desktops, and mobile devices on virtually any major platform

• Offers streamlined application packaging and automated deployment, updating, repair, and removal on desktops, laptops, or mobile devices

• Allows packages to perform multiple actions, permitting administrators to create a single package to install, remove, update, repair and rollback apps

• Collects detailed software usage data for both physical and virtualized applications from desktops and laptops, even while they are disconnected from the network

• Provides up-to-date statistics on the number and location of software licenses installed and usage statistics

• Offers policy enforcement capabilities that can manage excessive license deployments, redeploy under-utilized applications and remove rogue software

• Integrates with BMC Asset and Change Management applications, providing a fully automated out of the box Change and Configuration Management solution

To learn how BMC Configuration Automation for Clients can improve performance while reducing costs and risk, you can contact a Column office, have Column contact you, or chat with a Column representative.